Takeaway: Joel Snyder at Opus One and Interop Labs believes that Microsoft is at the head of the pack in bringing NAC to market.  And while Microsoft's Network Access Protection (NAP) is not the be all and end all of NAC, it does serve as a decent foundation for vendors to start building NAC solutions on.  One caveat, though, is who in the real world is running both Vista and Server 2008.

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Source: Network World