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What do we want from a NAC solution today, if we would do it from a clean sheet of paper? First of all, the architecture has to be microservices based. Ideally, it should be a cloud NAC offering. It should be managed by the vendor. It should be highly available. Feature upgrades should just come periodically automatically, without requiring any downtime whatsoever. Most importantly, the architecture should be API-based and should allow for cross-platform integration.
Secondly, it has to be IT-friendly. We know that existing solutions, they have been so complex that you needed to have an expert on an IT team dedicated just for NAC. We want that new NAC product to be tightly integrated into the network management and operations. So you want that single pane of glass that manages your whole full stack network, as well as all of your network access control rules and provide end-to-end visibility.
Lastly, with AI being there to help us solve network-specific problems, we want to extend that and make sure that we can capture that end-to-end user connectivity experience and answer questions. Will this affect my end user network experience? Is it the client configuration problem? Is it the network that is to blame, or network service that is to blame? Is it my NAC policy that is causing users to have a bad experience and have connectivity issues throughout the day?
What do we want from a NAC solution today, if we would do it from a clean sheet of paper? First of all, the architecture has to be microservices based. Ideally, it should be a cloud NAC offering. It should be managed by the vendor. It should be highly available. Feature upgrades should just come periodically automatically, without requiring any downtime whatsoever. Most importantly, the architecture should be API-based and should allow for cross-platform integration.