Joel Snyder's lengthy interview on NAC

The Network World guys have a lengthy transcript of a webinar with Joel Snyder of Opus One and Interop Labs talking about his experience with NAC.  Joel says that Microsoft is leading the charge in bringing NAC to market. Not that NAP is a be all and end all of NAC but it is serving as a foundation that other NAC  vendors than build upon.  Joel also talks about his view that he likes to work with ACLs versus VLANs.

There is a ton of good stuff there but I disagree with Joel on two things.  I think NAP will lead to rapid and broad NAP adoption.  But right now Joel suffers from lab-a-titis.  Yes NAP is great in the lab, but who has Vista and Server 2008 in the real world up and running.  Until we see wider adoption of these platforms, NAP will not reach the masses.  Also, I think dealing with ACLs are a bigger pain than VLANs. This is based on hundreds of engagements by StillSecure engineers in setting up NAC environments.  But as I said, if you are interested in NAC have a read, there is lots of good stuff there.