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Mirage Networks’ NAC solution has been selected by Rich Products Corporation of Buffalo, New York to reduce the risk of system downtime through proactive identification of infected clients and provide self-healing capabilities for assets to meet security requirements. Mirage’s NAC (Network Access Control) technology enables maximum network performance by controlling network access, monitoring network behavior, isolating non-compliant endpoints, and providing self-remediation capabilities. Mirage’s network-based solution requires no agent software, deploys virtually inline, and works in any environment.
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Mirage Networks, a developer of patented, full-cycle Network Access Control (NAC) technology, has received the 2008 Frost & Sullivan Best Entrepreneurial Company Award. The award is presented annually to the company with fewer than 300 employees showing the highest achievement in innovative product development, strategic business development and focused market strategy. Chris Rodriguez, research analyst for Frost & Sullivan said “NAC technology is increasing in popularity with customers, and Mirage Networks is quickly gaining market share within this booming market.” Frost & Sullivan expects Mirage will continue to increase its share of a network access control market that will achieve revenues of $530 million within 2-5 years.
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NetClarity, Inc. has announced that SC Magazine awarded the highest rating of five stars for the NACwall Micro, based upon features, ease of use, performance, documentation, support, and value for money. This comes on the heels of receiving the “Most Innovative NAC Solution” award from Network Products Guide, 2008. Dror Shalita, Vice President of International Channels said
“With resellers in over 35 countries now gearing up to sell our new NACwall Micro, I think that ‘David’ is about to give ‘Goliath’ a run for his money. Our agent-less NAC product is less than 1/10th the price of the Symantec product and from the same review we received one star rating higher than they did.”
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Great Bay Software, the innovator of Endpoint Profiling for enterprise networks, today announced that Network Products Guide, a Silicon Valley Communications publication on technologies and solutions, has named Beacon Endpoint Profiler(TM) winner of the 2008 Best Products and Services Award in the “Best Endpoint Security” Category. This respected annual award honors products and services that represent the rapidly changing needs and interests of technology end-users. As part of the tech-industry’s leading global awards program, this year’s Best Products and Services were nominated from all over the world.
Great Bay Software’s flagship software product, Beacon Endpoint Profiler, allows network administrators to locate, map and secure thousands of difficult-to-track endpoint devices such as IP phones, printers and biomedical devices — a crucial step in the successful installation of NAC systems. Further, Beacon Endpoint Profiler provides automated endpoint behavior management, alerting administrators to any unauthorized use of networked ports and devices.

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NetClarity Inc. has received the coveted Network Products Guide 2008 Product Innovation Award for the NACwall Micro appliance, becoming the only NAC vendor to receive such an award. The NACwall Micro is a lightweight, compact, cost-effective Network Access Control (NAC) solution that can be deployed on any Class C subnet in a matter of minutes without the need for agent or client software, works with existing networking and legacy infrastructure, eliminating the need for expensive upgrades. It automatically blocks criminals and malicious insiders from gaining access to mission critical network infrastructure. A great quote from the piece:

“The goal of any product innovation must show a positive change that improves networking. Innovative products such as NetClarity’s patented NACwall Micro appliances are bringing improvements to companies of all sizes who are struggling with controlling access to networks and dealing with returning, potentially infected laptops. In addition, most businesses struggle with the risk of off-hour and unexpected access as well as from ‘hot’ ethernet ports and wireless routers where ‘trust’ agents cannot help. The NACwall solution is the first NAC product we’ve seen that solves all of these problems quickly, easily and cost-effectively.”

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