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Thursday, May 31, 2012

NetClarity's Official Blog for 2012 is Located Here...

http://official-netclarity-blog.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

NetClarity Named Finalist in Info Security Products Guide Global 2011 Awards

Groundbreaking Network Access Control (NAC) Product to be unveiled during RSA Conference 2011

Bedford, MA (PRWEB) January 25, 2011

NetClarity, Inc. announced today that Info Security Products Guide, world's leading publication on security-related products and technologies has named NetClarity, Inc. a finalist for the 2011 Global Product Excellence in the New Products Category for their upcoming NAC product that will be announced during the RSA Conference 2011. These prestigious global awards recognize security and IT vendors with advanced, ground-breaking products and solutions that are helping set the bar higher for others in all areas of technologies....

Read the full release here:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/01/prweb4995354.htm

Monday, January 03, 2011

NetClarity CTO Reveals Top 10 Cybercrime and Cyberwar Predictions for 2011

NetClarity, Inc., the leading provider of Network Access Control technology in the marketplace in partnership with Hakin9 Magazine, today announced the Top Ten Cybercrime and Cyberwar Predictions for 2011:

1. Retail and E-tail Outlet Attacks will Outpace Attacks Targeting Banks and Financial Institutions while Hospitals become the Most Exploitable of All Vertical Markets.
2. Cloud Computing and Virtual Machines (VM) will be specifically targeted by cybercriminals and cyberterrorists resulting in VM malware and Cloud ‘downtime’ and Cloud ‘data theft’.
3. New and Innovative Attacks will be launched against Critical Infrastructure by Rogue and Competitive Nations.
4. We’ll enter the Early Stage of Growing Cell Phone and PDA Attacks through Trusted Application Downloads.
5. New and Sophisticated Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Attacks will be developed and launched.
6. Exponential Growth of More Intelligent Zero-day Malware both for Cybercrime and Cyberwar
7. New Sophisticated UTM Firewall and IPS Exploits will be launched.
8. More Creative Social Engineering for Cyber Crime Profits will take place.
9. Increases in Microsoft Windows Application Layer Vulnerabilities will lead towards their rapid exploitation.
10. Growing Privacy Right Violations by Governments and their Contractors in the name of Cyber Defense will take place.

“Based on my research, 2011 is going to be both an explosive year both in cybercrime and cyberwar. It’s going to get very ugly. Network Security professionals will be in great demand and have their jobs cut out for them next year,” said Gary S. Miliefsky, Founder & CTO, NetClarity, Inc.

“We’re pleased to have Mr. Miliefsky available exclusively to Hakin9 Magazine writing insightful articles including Securing the Cloud, Securing VoIP, Is Anti-virus Dead for our magazine,” said Karolina Lesinska, “In today’s well timed article; he has made some dramatic and profound predictions for 2011. Network Security professionals, IT Directors and CIOs should take heed and proactively harden their networks before this wave of new predicted attacks.”

For the complete report on his predictions, visit Hakin9 Magazine and download the latest edition in PDF format at http://www.hakin9.org/

About NetClarity, Inc.
NetClarity is the leading provider of Network Access Control technology in the marketplace. We have been developing patented intrusion defense technology using industry standard protocols, since 2003. This EasyNAC technology is portable and scalable and can be embedded and deployed in any form factor of hardware, typically running hardened Linux - such as a Wireless Router, Cable Modem, Firewall, Managed Switch and VPN hardware. We license this technology for turnkey NAC enablement in well-established industry partners solutions, worldwide. NetClarity has also deployed this EasyNAC technology in a scalable suite of industry standard rack-mountable hardware appliances, known as “NACwalls”, which are sold through channel partners and OEMs worldwide. For more information, visit us at http://www.netclarity.net/

About Hakin9 Magazine
Hakin9 is a free, online, monthly publication on IT Security for IT Security professionals, by IT Security professionals. The authors of hakin9 articles are experienced IT security experts who have worked in Information Technology Security business for years. The magazine is published in English and is available in the Internet as a free download. Hakin9 is a source of advanced, practical guidelines regarding the latest hacking methods as well as the ways of securing systems, networks and applications. The Hakin9 team runs hakin9 portal where the information on the latest editions, IT security news and products is provided at http://www.hakin9.org/

NetClarity, NACwall, 2G NAC, EasyNAC and the NetClarity logo are trademarks of NetClarity, Inc. CVE is a registered trademark of MITRE Corporation. All other marks are trademarks of their respective companies.

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Friday, August 08, 2008

We have completed a NAC Comparison Guide which is now located here:

http://www.netclarity.net/NAC-Comparison-Guide-August-2008.pdf

Thursday, March 13, 2008

NetClarity To Present at Venture Summit East

Like its sister event in Silicon Valley, Venture Summit East is a two-day gathering that highlights the significant economic, political and technology trends impacting the global growth investor. Venture Summit East features the most influential institutional investors, venture capitalists, corporate buyers, investment bankers and research analysts in the Eastern US in keynote presentations and panel debates. Venture Summit East will also host 14 “Best of Breed CEO Showcases” handpicked from the AlwaysOn annual top 100 private company list, and 36 other qualified six-minute CEO pitches from companies seeking later-stage capital or potential acquirers.

The goal of Venture Summit East is to match growth-company buyers and sellers and identify the most promising innovation-driven, growth investment opportunities. At the Venture Summit, our editors will also honor the “AO Top DealMakers” and the annual “AO Industry Analyst All-Star Team.”

Who Attends Venture Summit East
Five hundred institutional investors, venture capitalists, investment bankers, research analysts and corporate buyers will attend Venture Summit East. The most influential members of the financial and
technology media and blogging community will also be on hand to moderate debates and cover the action. Executives attend Venture Summit East to identify and debate emerging investment opportunities in venture and private equity funds and private growth companies, and to build high-level relationships with technology and greentech CEOs and corporate buyers.

http://alwayson.goingon.com/ecom/productview/23537

Sunday, November 11, 2007

Speaking Engagement In Canada at their Premeir InfoSec summit, SecTor.ca

NetClarity's Founder and CTO to Discuss Critical Security Issues at SecTor, Canada's Premier Information Security (INFOSEC) Summit

Gary Miliefsky to educate network security professionals on how to more proactively protect their networks at the SecTor summit in Toronto, Canada
Bedford, MA and Toronto, Canada (PRWEB) November 11, 2007 -- NetClarity, Inc., an award winning Vulnerability Management and Network Access Control company, today announced that Founder & CTO, Gary S. Miliefsky, is a featured speaker at SecTor, Canada's premier IT security education conference, which is being held on November 20-21, 2007 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/11/prweb568344.htm

Friday, June 22, 2007

2007 GFIRST National Conference

I will be speaking at GFIRST....

NetClarity's CTO Reveals Critical Flaws and Proactive Countermeasures for Securing Voice over IP (VoIP)
Gary Miliefsky to Train U.S. Government IT Professionals at the 2007 GFIRST National Conference

Bedford, MA (PRWEB) June 25, 2007 -- NetClarity, a leading provider of award winning vulnerability management, intrusion prevention and clientless NAC appliances, today announced that CTO Gary Miliefsky is a featured speaker at the 2007 GFIRST National Conference at http://www.us-cert.gov/GFIRST

At this session, U.S. Government IT professionals will gain insight into securely deploying Voice over IP (VoIP):

Date: Tuesday, June 26, 2007Time: 10:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m. Title: Securing VoIP

"I'll show you why VoIP is the new attack vector for malicious exploiters, hackers, cybercriminals and cyberterrorists and then I'll explain what you can do to defend yourself. Default deployments of VoIP systems are easily hacked, remotely controlled, eavesdropped and taken offline through denial of service. I'll provide best practice instructions including recommendations from NIST that will help you harden your VoIP systems and keep the dial-tone alive and secure." said Gary Miliefsky, Founder & CTO of NetClarity.

NetClarity will also begin offering the new and improved AuditMyVoIP service to U.S. Government CIOs at no charge during 2007. Normally this service is only available to VoIP equipment manufacturers but during 2007, NetClarity will not charge U.S. Government agencies for testing of VoIP Equipment. The VoIP security audits will be done confidentially and the test results will be delivered to the CIOs securely and confidentially. To find out more about this service, please visit http://www.auditmyvoip.com/

About NetClarity, Inc.NetClarity is a leading provider of vulnerability management, intrusion prevention and network admission control (NAC) products that provide preemptive, proactive network protection. The company's Auditor line of appliances has received widespread recognition, including two Best Buy Awards, 5 Star ratings, and Best of 2006 from SC Magazine and according to CRN is one of the Who's Who in NAC. Auditor enables customers to clearly see and better protect their network assets, identifying with pinpoint accuracy the root causes of data leakage, regulatory compliance gaps and network downtime using MITRE's CVE® standard. Based in Bedford, Massachusetts, NetClarity is privately held. For more information, visit http://www.netclarity.net/

NetClarity, Auditor and the NetClarity logo are trademarks of NetClarity, Inc. CVE is a registered trademark of MITRE Corporation. GFIRST is a trademark of US-CERT, part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.