Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

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NAC 2.0

After Interop...

http://weblog.infoworld.com/smbit/archives/2008/05/after_interop.html


So I'm back in the office and thinking about what I saw and heard at Interop. What do I think you should be thinking about?


3. NAC 2.0
I know why vendor companies are big on proprietary technologies, but good standards (note the word "good" in that last phrase -- it's critical) can make life so much easier for IT professionals trying to build a working system. NAC 2.0, from the Trusted Computing Group, promises to make life dramatically better for IT professionals who want to create a security system, as opposed to those who are stuck just trying to make an unrelated collection of components work in the same room. Several vendors have already begun building NAC 2.0 into their products, and I strongly suspect that the open source projects will be getting up to speed with this in the next couple of quarters. You may be a small company IT professional, but you can have some pull with vendors -- so use that pull to start asking when NAC 2.0 is going to show up in their software. You'll really like the results when it appears.