Microsoft NAP, TNC to go hand in hand?
InternetNews | at | by Mike
The network access control landscape is about to change on news today that Microsoft NAP and standards organization Trusted Computing Group's Trusted Network Connect are now interoperable.
The market for NAC is a competitive one, with the majority of solutions being compatible with one of three overriding frameworks: Cisco NAC, NAP or TNC. But now that NAP is considered an implementation of TNC, the NAC industry could be going from a three-horse race to a two-horse one between Cisco and TNC.
"The feedback we're always getting is that NAC is too confusing and why are there three architectures and not just one," Steve Hanna co-chair of the TNC working group for TCG and a distinguished engineer with Juniper Networks, told internetnews.com.