NAC Vendors On The Attack

Check Point Software Technologies
NAC Solution: Total Access Protection platform weaves NAC functionality into Check Point's Integrity line of endpoint security products
Features: Continually scans for policy compliance, also handles self-enforcement of infringing devices and automatically remediates them.

Consentry Networks
NAC Solution: LANShield Switch and LANShield Controller
Features: Enables companies to deploy NAC on existing network infrastructure. Switch inspects packets at speeds up to 10 gigabits per second and includes Layer 7 visibility, user access and threat control, and policy-setting features. Also supports access control solutions from Cisco, Microsoft and Check Point.

Elemental Security
NAC Solution: Elemental Security Platform
Features: Provides NAC functionality along with policy and configuration management, and includes a security policy editor that can be configured to restrict access to the server to authorized endpoints and to deal with the threat of unmanaged devices.

Enterasys
NAC Solution: Sentinel, Trusted Access Gateway appliance and Access Manager software
Features: Part of Enterasys' Secure Networks portfolio, Sentinel prevents infected or unauthorized devices from gaining access to a company's network and works without deploying agents on clients, enabling it to screen both corporate and guest devices. Appliance monitors health of devices trying to get on the network, management software is used for configuring and monitoring the gateway.

Hewlett-Packard ProCurve
NAC Solution: ProCurve Access Control Security Solution
Features: Focuses on NAC at the LAN edge, using switches and software to handle NAC functions such as access, authentication and tracking. This approach speeds the decision making process and also blocks malicious traffic from the corporate network.

Infoblox
NAC Solution: Infoblox appliances, ID Aware DHCP Toolkit
Features: Uses Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) to enable identity-based control over IP address assignment, which allows companies to deploy NAC on existing network infrastructure. Solution is based on various policies that can be set from the Infoblox appliances.

InfoExpress
NAC Solution: Dynamic NAC
Features: Simplifies deployment of NAC by using software installed on network PCs to ensure compliance with corporate security policies. Creates groups of 'enforcers' that scan the network, search for unauthorized endpoints, and immediately quarantine and remediate.

Insightix
NAC Solution: Insightix NAC
Features: Proprietary Dynamic Infrastructure Discovery (DID) technology ensures that only authorized devices can access the network and doesn't require deployment of software agents or specialized hardware. Enforces NAC policies on Layer 2 of the network to block unauthorized devices from connecting. Juniper Networks
NAC Solution: Infranet Controller 4000 and 6000 appliances; Infranet Agent
Features: Juniper's Unified Access Control architecture combines identity-based policy and endpoint intelligence to perform host check, and provides optional authenticated and encrypted transport to NAC enforcement gateways.

Lockdown Networks
NAC Solutions: Lockdown Enforcer (all-in-one NAC appliance), Lockdown Sentry (NAC appliance for remote offices)
Features: Works with existing infrastructure to ensure that potentially infected or otherwise unsafe devices do not get onto networks. Supports 802.1x as well as authentication for non-802.1x compliant devices; integrates with Active Directory, Novell, and LDAP for user based policy enforcement.

McAfee
NAC Solution: McAfee NAC
Features: McAfee's NAC Policy Enforcer, a module controlled through ePolicy Orchestrator management tool, allows administrators to set security and policy controls through a centralized console.

Meetinghouse Networks
NAC Solution: Endpoint Security Management solution
Features: Identity-based NAC approach that can simultaneously enforce security policy, monitor health of devices seeking access to the network, and block unauthorized access to the network.

Mirage Networks
NAC Solution: Mirage NAC appliances and management software
Features: Infrastructure-independent NAC solution that doesn't require deep switch integration for containment or mitigation of infected PCs. Technology uses set of rules to detect potentially threatening behavior and sends infected devices to a quarantine server for remediation.

Nevis Networks
NAC Solution: LANenforcer appliance, LANsight management software
Features: Identity-based approach that uses policy-based rules determine access to network, as well as a stateful firewall to handle NAC enforcement.

Nortel Networks
NAC Solution: Secure Network Access Solution
Features: Clientless solution that continuously scans network endpoints and handles enforcement for corporate security policies. Deploys out of line in order to minimize impact on network performance.

Senforce Technologies
NAC Solution: Senforce NAC
Features: Provides agent-free testing with no code or ActiveX controls installed, to facilitate support, enhance scalability, and speed deployments. Also includes agent-based endpoint testing through a downloadable persistent client, as well as an ActiveX plugin that tests endpoints using a Web browser.

StillSecure
NAC Solution: Safe Access
Features: Provides agent-less, ActiveX, and agent-based endpoint testing methods, and a range of policy enforcement methods based on DHCP (network-based and endpoint-based), in-line, Cisco NAC, and 802.1x.

Symantec
NAC Solution: Network Access Control Enforcer
Features: Preconfigured appliance-based solution that uses technology from Symantec's 2005 acquisition of NAC startup Sygate. Symantec is in the process of integrating technology from its 2005 acquisition of Whole Security, a startup specializing in behavior-based security and anti-phishing products.

Trend Micro
NAC Solution: Network VirusWall Enforcer
Features: NAC appliance doesn't require a pre-installed agent on user devices. Incorporates built-in, automatic, agentless remediation and network worm prevention.

Vernier Networks
NAC Solution: EdgeWall 8800 appliance
Features: Performs NAC functions at 40 gigabits per second. Continually inspects traffic at layers 4 through 7 to ensure that endpoints are in compliance. Quarantines and remediates infected devices and can associate traffic with individual users.