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Cisco Updates Network Security Technology

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the would-you-like-fries-with-that dept.

* * Beatles-Beatles writes to tell us that Cisco has announced an enhanced version of its Network Admission Control (NAC) technology. From the article: "Under its NAC initiative, Cisco is developing a range of tools that let companies permit, deny, quarantine or restrict admission to networks based on an end user's security status."

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  1. Re:NAC sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Imagine the fun when NAC flips out and decides to stop talking to the ACS servers. Everyone on a network is suddenly running in virus-mitigation mode (no network access in our configuration). The fix: reboot the router.

    Cisco hasn't made a good product since the Cisco 2500 router running IOS 11.

    I like to remind my PHB when he says "Nobody ever got fired for buying Cisco" that people have gotten fired for wasting money on lousy hardware with 20% failure rates and software the requires more reboots than a Windows 98 box.

    Come on E-rate reform! Audit the fuck out of school so we can finally get rid of this Cisco bullshit!