Supporting Defense Healthcare with Biomedical NAC

Monday, August 4, 2008
10:00 a.m. Central

Cisco® Network Admission Control (NAC) Appliance is an endpoint security policy product that allows network administrators to authenticate, authorize, evaluate, and remediate wired, wireless, and remote users prior to allowing access to the network. This widely-deployed security tool integrates identity-based access, vulnerability assessment, policy management, and patch management into one network-based appliance.

Cisco NAC Appliance Features and Benefits:

• Minimizes network outages caused by viruses, worms, spyware, and other malicious applications.
• Enforces security policies by making compliance a condition of access.
• Minimizes vulnerabilities on user machines through periodic evaluation and remediation.
• Significant cost savings by automating the process of repairing and updating user machines.

10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.: Business Overview and NAC Concepts

• What is NAC – Why NAC
• Basic Concepts
• Users’ interaction with NAC and Basic Demo of NAC
• Q&A

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.: The NAC Deep Dive

• NAC Deep Dive
• NAC Foundation Concepts
• NAC Components
• In-Band and Out-of-Band (controlling wireless and VPN users is also discussed)
• Virtual Gateway and Real IP Gateway
• NAC Profiler concepts
• NAC Guest Server concepts
• Centralized vs Distributed NAC Architectures
• Integration/Automation with Microsoft and other software (Antivirus, Anti-SPAM, etc)
• Design Solution Options
• Q&A