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Swedish municipality enforces NAC policies with Juniper device

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Swedish municipality enforces NAC policies with Juniper device

Tim Greene By Tim Greene
NAC is being used by the municipality of Fredrikstad Kommune to simplify its complex access restrictions to servers that would otherwise require individual policies and access controls. The Swedish municipality set up a Juniper ISG router in the network to enforce NAC policies determined by a Juniper Infranet Controller (IC) device. Read full story

Tim Greene is a senior editor at Network World, covering network access control, virtual private networking gear, remote access, WAN acceleration and aspects of VoIP technology. You can reach him at tgreene@nww.com.

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