ZENworks Network Access Control

In recent years, new technologies and different approaches to network access control (NAC) have made it more difficult to understand this market and make sound decisions. To make matters even more complicated, several new software companies have joined the fray and attempted to redefine the space, making it difficult to even find an accurate working definition for NAC. At the most basic level, network access control is a class of technologies that force users and endpoint devices to prove their identities and confirm their health before they can gain access to a network and its resources. NAC provides network security beyond logins and passwords—by testing and enforcing endpoint policy before users obtain an IP address, before their ports begin forwarding traffic and before they gain access to resources on a network. In other words, true NAC solutions provide policy enforcement at the network level, rather than at the endpoint or software level.