Oct05
Why aren’t NAC vendors buying patch management companies?
on October 5th, 2006 at 1:39 pmPosted In: Security
So McAfee is buying Citadel. These guys have got the right idea. If McAfee can integrate this into their NAC solution to a point where the desktop has automatic patching when it is sent to a remediation zone, then I will recommend McAfee to everyone.
Furthermore, I still cannot understand why in the world other NAC providers don’t buy a Citadel and integrate it into their NAC solution. I asked for this CONSTANTLY when I was in security operations, and no one had it. I cannot be the only guy asking for this.
Vet
Most of the NAC vendors are using one of two drivers/shims for their solution – Checkpoint or Opswat. Those seem to be the big ones, at least for the NAC vendors who have an appliance component to their offering.
Michael – I agree remediation working with NAC is very powerful. In fact we have Safe Access our NAC solution integrates and is working with Citadel, Big Fix and MS SMS. I think McAfee is more interested in using Citadel with their Foundstone/Preventsys vulnerability system at this point than NAC. Their NAC program still has a lot of growing up to do. Unless working for a McAfee partner has brought you over to the dark side