On the positive side, deployment may take less time than expected, and disruptions to existing systems may be minimal. One warning: Expect the overall satisfaction of upper management to wobble a bit once the deployment is finished. As with all security-based projects, NAC ROI is hard to prove.
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Tracking NAC
Network Computing first surveyed IT professionals on NAC in 2006. Then, slightly more than half of respondents had plans for it, with a heavy concentration of those in government and highly regulated industries (find last year's survey and see more of this year's results). This year's survey, which used a similar methodology, response rate and demographic profile, shows some important changes. Excluding the 14 percent who have no interest in NAC, slightly more than half of respondents have bought products and started deployment. This helped us separate respondents into two groups: planners and deployers.
Deployers have a higher opinion of NAC than planners do, not surprisingly. They also expect more from the technology and are paying for it. In many cases, high expectations are based on real experience: NAC can be brought online quickly. In fact, 41 percent of deployers said initial rollouts are taking less than three months, even though most projects involve multiple locations and several different applications. Ten percent said they completed the entire NAC setup within a single month.
And these can be big projects. Unusual for early adopters, most deployers are involved in larger NAC installations than the planners' anticipated deployments, both in terms of number of sites they're covering and the technology's functionality. This is in part because two of the biggest drivers for NAC are branch-office security and compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), both of which tend to cause headaches for larger enterprises.
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