Judged by a panel of experts, NetClarity beat out most of the competition after being narrowed down from hundreds of applicants. "The RSA Conference Innovation Showdown is a great competition that allows emerging companies, such as NetClarity, to showcase innovative technology," said Sandra Toms LaPedis, area vice president and general manager of RSA Conferences. "This company has been recognized by the judging panel for presenting a solid business model."

SC Magazine labs independently reviews over 1,300 products and services from over 330 competing companies globally.  NetClarity has received numerous SC Magazine awards including the coveted BEST BUY award as well as a perfect 5 STAR product review in all six catagories, during an independent test by SC Magazine against leading competition.  In addition, NetClarity appliances are now used by SC Magazine to test leading vendors information security products for potential flaws.

"The goal of any product innovation must show a positive change that improves networking," said Rake Narang, editor-in-chief, Network Products Guide. "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...The NACwall solution is the first NAC product we've seen that solves all of these problems quickly, easily and cost-effectively."

"Security products have continued to evolve rapidly in the past few years and advanced technologies are now making it possible to take a pro-active approach to most security scenarios," said Rake Narang, Managing Editor of Info Security Products Guide. "End-users or consumers of these products have to deal with real-live threats which may differ vastly from lab simulated environments. These users build a strong 'Customer Trust' for products that best meet their requirements and therefore also play a key role in the security evolution cycle."

NetClarity was named by CRN to the Who's Who in Network Admission Control (NAC) on the Cover Story entitled "Start Me Up: New NAC Offerings Gaining Attention" by Kevin McLaughlin, CRN. The cover story goes on to say that "the NAC startups' window of opportunity is likely to remain open for the foreseeable future because anything that can be done to reduce NAC's complexity is a major benefit."

According to CRN editors, for a product to earn the CRN Test Center Product of the Year honor, it must break past conventions and raise the bar in terms of technical excellence. In addition, it must help VARs and system integrators unlock new business and break free of the pack by providing enough flexibility for them to write their own rules with respect to configuration and customization options.  The hardware platform for the NetClarity Enterprise NACwall did just this.

All of NetClarity Products and related CVE(R) Updates Services have been Certified by MITRE to be CVE Compatible.  "We are pleased to see NetClarity, a CVE compatible vendor, selected by RSA as one of the top three network security Innovators in the world," said Robert A. Martin, compatibility lead, MITRE Corporation. According to USCERT, 95% of network downtime and information technology (IT) compliance issues are a direct result of an exploit against a Common Vulnerability and Exposure (CVE).

"Tolly Group engineers examined NetClarity's security solution and determined that it delivers effective security through proactively discovering and managing CVEs, and providing network admission control (NAC), remediation workflow and regulatory compliance audit tools in an easy to deploy and easy to manage solution," states The Tolly Group report.  "With an ever expanding wave of data laundering cyber crime, NetClarity has developed an innovative suite of NACwall products that help solve these difficult problems in a proactive way," said Kevin Tolly, President & CEO of The Tolly Group.  

"For the first elite Northeast 100 list we surveyed more than 500 venture investors, investment bankers, and technology insiders, who nominated hundreds of companies to determine the Northeast 100 winners," said Tony Perkins, Founder and Editor, AlwaysOn Network. "Each of the Northeast 100 winners had to demonstrate leadership among their peers in the following areas: innovation, market opportunity, commercialization, media buzz, and stakeholder value creation. We congratulate NetClarity on this great honor!"