macmon secure is now in Gartner’s Market Guide for Network Access Control

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Quintessence of NAC – Implement the core themes of NAC first

The analysts at Gartner have determined “NAC continues to be primarily an on-premises deployment requiring hardware or virtual appliances, but increasingly vendors have extended management to the cloud or provided cloud-based RADIUS services. These offerings provide a way to consolidate management of distributed NAC implementations through the cloud rather than over private networks.”

macmon NAC focuses on network security and is open for integrations

Christian Bücker reports: “We see ourselves as a best-of-breed NAC provider. macmon secure GmbH is based in the heart of Berlin, Germany, and has been developing network security software since 2003. It is used to protect networks against unauthorized access. We offer companies a flexible and efficient NAC solution that can be implemented with little expenditure but delivers considerable added value for the company’s network security. “Neighboring” security solutions can be integrated seamlessly. We make a fundamental distinction between the following categories: compliance connections, infrastructure connections, asset management, and identity stores. Our customers benefit from a wide range of options for meeting complex requirements. We do not aspire to expand into other IT fields; we focus on our core competences and realize added value for our customers through technology partnerships and by developing interfaces.”

Further information: https://go.macmon.eu/en/gartner

Recommendations from Gartner

According to Gartner, security and risk management leaders responsible for network and endpoint security
should:

1. “Implement NAC solutions that integrate well with existing network infrastructure and security solutions to
improve security incident response times and lower overall operating overhead for the NAC product itself

2. Focus primary evaluation criteria of NAC solutions on vendors’ abilities to align with an organization’s goals,
such as discovery and device visibility, preconnect or postconnect authentication and ease of use, more than
on detailed technical comparisons across solutions

3. Plan a multiphase implementation effort that requires commitment from multiple teams including executives,
networking, endpoint, service desk and security teams — even for moderately complex organizations”

macmon’s promise of performance

The intelligently simple strategy of macmon NAC allows implementation and operation in a quarter of the time
compared to competitive solutions.

1. "Ready to Use" integrations and full inbound & outbound REST-API communication ensure interoperability

2. With agentless technology, macmon sees everything that is on the network

3. The mixed operation with 802.1X and SNMP allows flexible and area-wide NAC proactive or reactive implementation

4. NAC since 2003 — grown with customer requirements

Source: Gartner, Market Guide for Network Access Control, John Watts, Lawrence Orans, Claudio Neiva, 12 May 2020.

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