NAC declared mature: * Interop panel gives a broad overview of the status of NAC technology

A panel of NAC experts at Interop gave a broad overview of the status of the technology, which it declared mature, meaning that most vendors have a way to deal with devices that can't support a NAC client or per-session agent and support 802.1x enforcement.

The panel also said the next generation of NAC will pull in other security systems such as IDS (Compare IDS products), VPN, antivirus (Compare antivirus products) and firewalls (Compare Enterprise Firewall products) to...