Verifying integrity of network devices for secure multicast communications

A network device, such as an access control server, verifies the integrity of other network devices requiring access to a secure multicast. The network device receives a health status report from the other network devices and grants or denies access to the secure multicast based on a comparison of the health status report with a set of one or more stored policies. The network device then provides group keys to authorized network devices. The network device may also include a monitoring module that monitors activities of authorized network devices. Where the network device monitors authorized network devices, authorized network devices with behavior that fails to satisfy one or more behavioral policies will have their authorization revoked and will no longer have access to the secure multicast.