Cisco has performed an abrupt U-turn and will not now be releasing ts NAC client software code to the open source community. Earlier this month, Bob Gleichauf, CTO of the company's Security Technology Group, said that Cisco planned to open-source its Cisco Trust Agent; Cisco is now retracting this statement.
What a difference a few weeks make. "CTA will be something that's open source," Gleichauf said earlier this month . "We don't want to be in the CTA business, so we're going to just open it up."
And now. "Cisco is not open-sourcing CTA," said a Cisco spokesperson. "Cisco is taking a different approach to being open via standards" regarding NAC.