Robert Whiteley Quotes (9 Quotes)


    None of the vendors crowding this important category of network security is likely to make really big waves this year. It'll be the middle to the end of 2006 before companies have NAC up and running within the switch environment, ... 2006 will be the major year of getting your infrastructure up to date and defining your networking policies.

    There are ways to reduce you operational burden if you do it from the beginning. The no-no is not planning or budgeting for it.

    Nortel should be able to bounce back.... But I'm not sure we're going to see any huge growth numbers anytime soon.

    They've always been known as a good engineering company.

    Other vendors will have to say they're NAC or NAP compliant. If they don't have that stamp of approval, they open themselves up to obsolescence if it becomes the standard.


    Mainstream folks don't typically have a large number of remote access users.

    People often forget about management tools when they're building a new network or looking at the one they have. Most hardware vendors provide management software with their products these days, but there is a whole tier of software that can give visibility into the network as a whole.

    I would argue that the operational burden far outweighs the capital gain. Firms that have started deploying NAC have stopped because of the complexity. You really can't get it up and running enterprise-wide from the get-go.

    Ultimately, a company needs to decide if it prefers best-of-breed security -- and subsequently pay a slight premium for it -- or if ease of use and simplicity is more important. Integrated and embedded endpoint security will address each of these priorities respectively.


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