Leading provider of NACwall™ (network access control wall) appliances, NetClarity, announced today that a leading provider of third-party IT product, component and services validation, The Tolly Group, has tested and certified the features of the Enterprise and SMB line of appliances including the EasyNAC Enterprise, EasyNAC Branch and Endpoint Defender products.

The Tolly report can be accessed directly by visiting http://www.tolly.com/DocDetail.aspx?DocNumber=20294 .

Founder and chief technology officer of NetClarity, Gary Miliefsky, says: "When many first hear about the capabilities of EasyNAC they tend to think, 'At that price, there has to be a catch.' To have such an established name as Tolly certifying our features add to the mounting evidence that it really isn't too good to be true".

The EasyNAC Enterprise protects up to 2048 trusted network assets and has an average deployment cost of less than $19,995. Customers need not worry about the system wide upgrades required by previous generation NAC solutions, because of the unique EasyNAC technology embedded in these NACwall™ appliances. Such "forklift upgrades" can cause installation costs to swell in excess of 20 times that of EasyNAC line.

The Tolly Group report states" "Tolly Group engineers examined NetClarity's EasyNAC Enterprise and EasyNAC Branch vulnerability management appliances and Endpoint Defender security solution and determined that it delivers effective security through proactively discovering and managing CVEs, and providing network admission control, remediation workflow and regulatory compliance audit tools in an easy to deploy and easy to manage solution".

Tolly Group engineers tested and certified seven main features of the NetClarity EasyNAC products:

    * Asset discovery and classification
    * Asset inventory monitoring and alerts
    * "On demand" and "scheduled asset audits across multiple IP subnetworks
    * Regulatory compliance reports (in PDF, CSV, XML, HTML, SYSLOG formats)
    * Dynamic endpoint quarantine using firewall and smart switch integration (when using supported firewall/smart switch hardware)
    * Automatic Vulnerability Signatures and/or Software Updates
    * PCI Security Standards Council-approved scanning equipment

In addition, Tolly also tested NetClarity's Endpoint Defender against three features:

    * Automatic Vulnerability Signatures and/or Software Updates
    * Real-time protection for malware, Trojans, viruses etc.

Real-time "anomaly-based" detection and protection against zero-day attacks

NetClarity added, in February, the EasyNAC Micro, the newest, smallest member of the EasyNAC family, a hand-held appliance that can give a small 10-workstation office a state of the art NACwall solution for less than $1,000.