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Thursday, March 26, 2009

A hidden chore of deploying NAC

Autmating an audit of what is attached to every switch port and access point on the network
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A hidden chore of deploying NAC

Tim Greene By Tim Greene
One of the great hidden chores of deploying NAC is finding all the devices that are attached to the network, even those that can't authenticate. Read full story

Tim Greene is senior editor at Network World.

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