Re: Plans for Windows 7 & new NAC appliances

[Kurt Huenemann]

We've had Perfigo/CCA/NAC for 4 years, and reluctantly decided to purchase the necessary "appliances" this summer to get to the 4.5 and later code. After 9 weeks, Cisco still has not delivered the equipment, despite promises "they are expediting" and so on. I'm a pretty agreeable person, but all of you recognize the problem with undertaking ResNet projects in August -- and the equipment isn't even here yet!   Kurt E. Huenemann Assoc. Vice-President for Information Resources Heidelberg University Lavner, Bob (IT) wrote: We were also an original customer. When we were told we had to upgrade,  Cisco originally said it would cost triple what we originally paid. When we threaten to drop them and go with another vendor, we got the price down to a very reasonable price. Talk to your rep. There is a lot of wiggle room.   Bob Lavner Network/Server Manager Assumption College 500 Salisbury St. Worcester,MA. 01609 508-767-7006 774-452-2792   From: Cisco Clean Access Users and Administrators [mailto:CLEANACCESS@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU] On Behalf Of Stanclift, Michael Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 9:31 AM To: CLEANACCESS@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU Subject: Re: Plans for Windows 7   We are an original Perfigo customer, and were eligible for about a 75% discount off the cost of the appliances. You may want to talk to your rep and see if you qualify.   Michael Stanclift Network Analyst Rockhurst University   http://help.rockhurst.edu (816) 501-4231   PThink before you print!   From: Cisco Clean Access Users and Administrators [mailto:CLEANACCESS@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU] On Behalf Of Speight, Howard Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 7:22 AM To: CLEANACCESS@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU Subject: Re: Plans for Windows 7   I’m guessing he’s talking about moving from software based CCA (Perfigo) to appliance based CCA (still Perfigo, just a different name). Certainly you can run the software until support is pulled, but make no mistake, it will be pulled. We purchased Perfigo at version 3.1 or something like, now it will cost about four times as much to use NAC 4.5.   From: Cisco Clean Access Users and Administrators [mailto:CLEANACCESS@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU] On Behalf Of Lane Clark Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 6:59 PM To: CLEANACCESS@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU Subject: Re: Plans for Windows 7   I think I have missed something.  You say expensive upgrade that coming?  Care to expand?   Thanks.   Lane On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Hennessey, Sean <henne...@up.edu> wrote: It is and it will probably start hitting the market sooner rather than later with new systems. Also, people with the right kind of Technet membership can download and use it shortly as well, not to mention all of the RC versions popping up everywhere. I’m very excited about the release as I’ve been playing with the RC and am really impressed.   This underlines one of my major problems with NAC – they follow a business strategy when the vast majority (as far as I can tell) of businesses using the product are educational – where we have limited control over the variety of OSes we have to support, generally get them immediately, and end up bypassing NAC for those devices. That aligned with the lack of role nesting that makes granular work impractical, makes it virtually unusable. We are having to think very seriously as to whether or not we’re going continue with NAC (and the enforced, and expensive, upgrade coming down the pipe) or look toward something else.   -          Sean   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sean Hennessey, CCNA Network and Information Security Systems Administrator Office of Technical Support University of Portland w: (503) 943 7877, c: (503) 710 6347   From: Cisco Clean Access Users and Administrators [mailto:CLEANACCESS@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU] On Behalf Of Lane Clark Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 1:24 PM To: CLEANACCESS@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU Subject: Re: Plans for Windows 7   According to information week, Windows 7 is now available to business clients.  See link:   http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/operatingsystems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=219100442&cid=nl_IW_daily_html   Cisco has got to get this done.  We can't always be so far behind, especially when it comes to the security of our networks.   Lane