St. Bernard Software announces support for Microsoft's Network Access Protection technology.

St. Bernard Software, a provider of essential security solutions that protect against data loss, system threats, Internet abuse and unsolicited email, today announced its support for Microsoft's Network Access Protection (NAP), an extensible standards-based technology that will enable users to more securely access their corporate network.

Network Access Protection technologies allow IT professionals to monitor and control network access based on validation of a computer's compliance to pre-established policies. The platform's technologies provide several distinct functionalities to help corporate IT administrators improve security of their network clients including network policy validation, network restriction and network policy compliance.

"St. Bernard Software's participation in Network Access Protection will ensure that UpdateEXPERT and SecurityEXPERT users will be able to verify a system is compliant with their patching policy and security settings policy respectively, for the machines that are attempting to access the network," said Jeff Graham, product manager at St. Bernard Software. "This support gives our customers added confidence that our products will help harden their systems, protecting them from known and unknown threats."

A proven industry leader in the patch management market, St. Bernard Software's participation in Microsoft's Network Access Protection illustrates its continuing commitment to provide the highest level of product quality and service to its customers. Through its System Vulnerability Management tools, UpdateEXPERT and SecurityEXPERT, St. Bernard Software offers customers an effective, easy to use, and affordable way to protect their systems by deploying patches quickly and effectively, setting and enforcing system security policies based on industry best practices, and running compliancy reports.