The most significant differences between Microsoft’s Network Access Protection architecture and other NAC architectures you see in the iLabs come because Microsoft does not make switches or routers. Therefore, the path for handling enforcement is different, focusing on server enforcement and standards-based switch enforcement. The original intent of MS-NAP was not security, but to find and quarantine non-compliant clients in the enterprise LAN. As the interest in NAC has increased, Microsoft has adjusted their architecture to include more enforcement mechanisms. In early 2007, the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) and Microsoft announced interoperability between TNC and NAP thus opening the door for a single unified Network Access Control client
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Two leading network access control standards — TCG’s Trusted Network Connect (TNC) and Microsoft’s Network Access Protection (NAP) — will now interoperate, providing enterprises with simpler, more cost-effective, scalable, and interoperable endpoint integrity and network access control.
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