“As it develops the next generation of network security
infrastructure, Cisco Systems Inc. is planning to cease development
on its network admission control (NAC) client, the Cisco Trust
Agent (CTA), and submit the source code for the software client to
the open source community, Bob Gleichauf, CTO of Cisco’s Security
Technology Group, told InfoWorld.“Cisco has a goal of making the CTA open source within ‘a couple
months,’ allowing the company to free up development resources for
other areas of NAC, Gleichauf said…”