Microsoft's NAP hits the century mark with partners
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Microsoft has signed up more than 100 partners who say they will support its Network Access Protection, or NAP, technology for protecting the network from edge devices such as roaming laptops through quarantine and remediation, the company said Thursday.
The announcement comes on the eve of next week's RSA Conference in San Francisco, where Microsoft and 40 or so of its partners plan to demonstrate momentum around NAP.
"This is an important milestone in industry acceptance of NAP," said Mike Schutz, group product manager in Microsoft's edge and security organization. Among the vendors demonstrating at RSA, Schutz said to expect to see the major antivirus showing interoperability with NAP and hardware and switch vendors showing NAP "authentication at the switch."