Chapter 9.  Additional Considerations

This section presents other factors that should be taken into account when creating plans for deploying NAP.

Determining System Compliance Requirements

The organization must consider which characteristics will be checked on the client devices for them to be considered compliant. It may decide to use only what is already present on the client devices; conversely, it may find merit in the idea of rolling out additional technologies for system health checks and remediation in conjunction with the NAP deployment. The NAP client is able to verify a range of items when conducting the system compliance check:

  • Are malware-prevention technologies, such as antivirus and antispyware software, enabled and up to date?

  • Are ...

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