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One popular request is a list of features that come along with the different versions out. Below is a comparison of all the major code revisions of Cisco NAC Appliance. 4.8 (LATEST) * Support for Cisco NME-NAC Platforms * Administrator Access Restriction * Out-of-Band Logoff * In-Band and Out-of-Band Filter Behavior Enhancements * Fast-OPSWAT * RADIUS Session Timeout * Passive Re-assessment * Reporting Enhancements * Agent Customization * Agent Authorizes CAS * Field-Replaceable FIPS Card for HP-Based Cisco NAC Appliances * Cisco NAC Windows Agent Version 4.8.0.32 * Mac OS X Agent Version 4.8.0.569 * Cisco NAC Web Agent Version 4.8.0.4 * Features Optimized/Removed in Release 4.8 * Supported AV/AS Product List Enhancements (Windows Version 83, Mac OS X Version 7) 4.7 * FIPS 140-2 Compliance * New Hardware Platform Support * Cisco NAC Appliance WAN Deployment Enhancements * AD SSO Requirements for Windows 7 * Windows 7 Support on Cisco NAC Agent 4.6 * Posture Assessment Support for 64-Bi...

Today, organizations use IT to support their mission and business objectives. With the evolution of business through technology, organizations have proven that it can be an accelerator for growth, competitive differentiator, productivity enhancer and even strengthen employee satisfaction. The challenge organizations face is how to obtain these returns from the technology that they have invested in? This blog hopes to help unlock some of the secrets of deploying or using technology in a way to obtain return on your investment: get the most out of the features; optimize your environment to save cost; secure your IT infrastructure; Some of the core topics that you can count on from this Cisco Security Blog: Deployment Best Practices Upgrade Announcements & Procedures Gotchas & Workarounds Troubleshooting Tips Operationalizing Products Unlike the Cisco NAC blog, CAYSEC will expand to covering Cisco ASA, IPS, SIEM, 802.1X, IronPort S-Series and C-Series(Web and Email), and router/sw...

NAC Appliance Version 4.6.1 was release yesterday. Some of the new features: Posture Assessment Support for 64-Bit Windows Operating Systems The new NAC Agent can be installed and launched on 64-bit versions of Windows XP and Windows Vista, and can perform posture assessment and remediation on client machines. Earlier releases of Cisco NAC Appliance provided only authentication support for 64-bit client operating systems. Agent Configuration XML File Upload Enhancement This XML configuration file method of setting up Agents on client machines replaces the previous Clean Access Agent configuration schema requiring Windows registry setting manipulation for custom parameters. No more registry changes, hooray! If you previously employed Windows registry settings to adjust Clean Access Agent behavior on client machines, you must specify the same settings in the XML Agent configuration file to preserve Agent behavior using the Cisco NAC Agent. This upgrade has a ton of new agent features, as...

NAC Guest Server has changed significantly with the latest 2.0 release. From External Portal Support to AD SSO, this revision has added some key enterprise features. The features that have hit home the most for myself and my customers have been: Active Directory Single Sign On Cisco NAC Guest Server 2.0 can be joined to an Active Directory Domain and then automatically authenticate Internet Explorer browsers using Integrated Windows Authentication. This removes the need for sponsors to enter their username and password. For details on configuration of ADSSO, see the Configuration of Active Directory Single Sign-On for NAC Guest Server Configuration Example Credit Card Billing Support Cisco NAC Guest Server 2.0 provides the ability for guests to purchase accounts via credit card support. This means that you can now use NGS to provide ROI for guest internet access. Management Reports Management reports are enhanced to provide the following guest network usage information: •Total Guest A...

The following is a list of new things out there in the Cisco NAC World. The NAC Market is continuing to grow in 2009 and with the growth the products will continue to evolve, get better and have more options. Security Options Abound: New NAC Release My friends over at TechWiseTV are a huge multi-media machine, producing video, audio and podcasts. Well this PodCast is on NAC 4.5, Alok Agrawal of the NAC Business Unit and Myself dive into some of the cool features of 4.5. All of the podcasts can be subscribed to through iTunes. To access the NAC podcast go to: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/ns340/ns339/ns638/ns719/html_TW/tw_episode_198.html And to get more information on all the great stuff coming from Techwise TV visit: http://www.mytechwisetv.com/ or http://cisco.com/go/interact NAC Layer 3 Out of Band Design Guide That Uses VRF-Lite for Traffic Isolation Cisco wrote a new configuration guide on using VRF-Lite for traffic isolation. This is a great configuration option for NAC, ...

Many people might be wondering what happen to the handy dandy support logs that used to be located in the "/perfigo/logs/" directory in previous NAC versions. Well in version 4.5 there were some enhancements to the logging and with those enhancements came new placement of the logs. These logs are most commonly used to troubleshoot NAC during deployments. Please do not turn on advanced logging without reading the documentation fully or with the assistance of Cisco TAC. The CAM log can be found at: /perfigo/control/tomcat/logs/nac_manager.log The CAS log can be found at: /perfigo/access/tomcat/logs/nac_server.log For those of you not familiar with what the logs contain, please feel free to reference the CAM and CAS Configuration Guides: CAM Admin Guide - Support Logs CAS Admin Guide - Support Logs

In June of 2006, NAC Version 4.0.0 was released. Since then, Cisco has released numerous updates and features to the NAC Appliance line! Recently a member of the NAC Mailing List posted the following request: Is there a feature matrix to compare the various versions/tracks of Cisco NAC? So that is exactly what this posts answers. It is long, but I know at least one person appreciates it! I will explore 3 major lines of code.. 4.0.X, 4.1.X and 4.5.X. Realistically all new deployments should be using 4.1.X or 4.5.X, but I wanted to give a good overview for everyone on older codes. 4.0.X 4.0.0 Support for Active Directory (Windows Domain) Single Sign-On (SSO) Corporate Asset Authentication and Posture Assessment by MAC Address Support for Layer 3 Out-of-Band (OOB) Deployment New Windows Update Requirement Type SMP Kernel Support for Super CAM Support for Assigning VLANs by VLAN Name in OOB Deployments Support for "IGNORE" Global Device Filter for IP Phones in OOB Deployments Abi...