There are three major industry initiatives in play today addressing
network security; Cisco’s NAC, Microsoft’s NAP and the Trusted Computing
Group’s TNC. The problem with all three is that they are
not ready, complex, non-standard and very costly. However the market is demanding network access
control without the above baggage. So a
few smart people started companies to address this window of opportunity; Tom
Barsi being one of them with his company ConSentry joins me to discuss a better
way to control network access.