Monday, January 19, 2009

Independent research firm recognizes Microsoft NAP as a leader in Network Access Control


Microsoft’s Network Access Protection (NAP) solution was cited as a leader, the top category, in a recent independent report, “The Forrester Wave: Network Access Control, Q3 2008.” Forrester placed a lot of emphasis on different access control scenarios for the evaluation, and the different vendors were evaluated around 12 different scenarios as well as strengths across technology, strategy, and market presence.
“Microsoft has the strongest NAC product for managed endpoints,” the report stated. The report goes on to state that even though its official product has only been shipping since the inception of Windows Server 2008, Microsoft has already established itself as a critical thought leader and contributor to the standardizations of NAC. “Microsoft has the overall highest score among the 12 scenarios we evaluated.


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