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Industry-leading networking test and analysis company appoints proven channel and sales leader to support revenue growth, market development and partner expansion.

29th January 2025 – Colorado Springs, CO USA – NetAlly, a global leader in handheld network test and cybersecurity solutions, is doubling down on its commitment to EMEA market growth with the appointment of Nathan Collins as Regional Vice President. Collins brings decades of expertise to lead the company’s ambitious expansion strategy, focusing on empowering partners and enhancing network resilience.

NetAlly provides network test, management and security products for companies to better understand and secure their networks. Their solutions cover a range of network management requirements, from testing tools that technicians can use to troubleshoot network issues in seconds to robust cybersecurity solutions that provide fast insights into potential vulnerabilities in edge network environments.

With over 300 active partners across the EMEA region, NetAlly is transitioning to a fully two-tier distribution model to ensure its cutting-edge solutions are readily available in all major markets. By partnering with local distributors, NetAlly enables faster product availability, better service quality, and streamlined operations for both customers and partners. Collins brings his more than 25 years of expertise in the data storage, networking, and business continuity markets to NetAlly, including senior leadership positions at the likes of AvePoint, CommVault, Druva, and PAVilion.

“Companies rely on their networks to connect their operations and support their goals, so networks must evolve faster and be dynamic and responsive to those business goals. At the same time, increasing regulation and security challenges make building, deploying, and managing networks more challenging than ever. Helping our customers and partners navigate these evolving trends is crucial to our success. Nathan brings us a wealth of experience to help us deliver these goals,” said Mike Parrottino, CEO at NetAlly.

“The European Union has introduced numerous new regulations focused on security and resilience, while similar critical infrastructure regulations are being enforced in the UK for companies and service providers. These regulations aim to make digital services more reliable and resilient, but they need to be supported over time, all the time. Without strong networks, you can’t deliver those great digital services to your customers. Compliance with these security regulations is a critical requirement for both partners and customers. NetAlly’s network test and security vulnerability solutions will be essential to stay compliant,” explained Collins. “I look forward to working with our partners on developing their networking infrastructure businesses, delivering more opportunities for them, and ensuring more reliable and secure networks for their customers.”

Intec Microsystems is a NetAlly distributor based in the UK. Of their partnership with NetAlly, Tom Newall, direct vendor manager, said, “The market certainly has a strong, positive sentiment about NetAlly. As a trusted advisor to our customers, we saw partnering with NetAlly as a way to build out our solutions portfolio and capture a larger share of wallet in our market space.” Newall continued, “The launch of our partnership was our most successful vendor kick-off in 2024. Our team is very enthusiastic about this addition to our portfolio, as NetAlly’s product line provides an attractive margin and good value attach to our network infrastructure sales. On top of that, their team is easy to work with and super responsive.”

Lennart Heijnen, CEO at Heynen BV, a Dutch supplier of solutions in the field of professional electronics in the Benelux countries, said of their partnership with NetAlly, “We’ve experienced many years of year-over-year growth with the NetAlly portfolio, including significant large deals with several service providers. We’ve had particular success with a key customer in the electronic payments processing industry. NetAlly’s close collaboration, teamwork, and responsiveness to their unique needs resulted in multiple large orders over the years.”

Under Collins’ leadership, NetAlly is poised to transform how partners and customers experience network management and cybersecurity in the EMEA region. By focusing on accessibility, innovation, and collaboration, NetAlly will ensure that every business, from local enterprises to global corporations, can have secure, high-performance networks they can rely on.

About NetAlly
For decades, the NetAlly® family of network test and analysis solutions has been helping network and cybersecurity professionals better deploy, manage, maintain, and secure today’s complex wired and wireless networks. Since creating the industry’s first handheld network analyzer in 1993, NetAlly continues to set the standard for portable network analysis and cybersecurity assessment with tools that include EtherScope®nXG, CyberScope®, AirMagnet®, LinkRunner®, LinkSprinter®, AirCheck™, and more.

NetAlly simplifies the complexities of network testing and cybersecurity assessments, provides instant visibility for efficient problem resolution, and enables seamless collaboration between site personnel and remote experts. To learn more, visit https://netally.com, follow us on Facebook, X, LinkedIn, Instagram or YouTube.

In-depth AutoTest provides unmatched visibility for Ethernet cable and network link validation and troubleshooting.

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA – June 3, 2024 – Today at the Cisco Live! event, NetAlly announced the availability of its next-generation LinkRunner® AT network and cable testers, continuing a twenty-plus year legacy of innovative troubleshooting tools for network engineers and technicians.

The LinkRunner AT 3000 delivers fast and comprehensive validation of copper and fiber network links with powerful network connectivity troubleshooting. While offering the same core functions of its predecessors (LinkRunner AT 1000 and 2000 models), the LinkRunner AT 3000 features a large touchscreen and a more in-depth AutoTest that provides deeper network visibility on Ethernet links from 10 Mbps to 10 Gbps – all at the same price as the AT 2000.

With the addition of network discovery, path analysis, and packet capture, the LinkRunner AT 4000 provides deeper visibility and diagnostics, enabling network professionals to quickly resolve issues impacting single or multiple devices and network segments. Automated topology mapping in Link-Live, NetAlly’s collaboration, reporting and analysis platform, delivers ‘up-to-the-minute’ accurate networks maps for easy documentation.

“The LRAT 4000 has proven to be an exceptional addition to our toolbox,” said Paul Sutherland, engineer at Hallbeck IT. “It has significantly reduced the time and cost associated with the troubleshooting process. This tool has enhanced our ability to quickly identify active network faults, a task that would have been much more time-consuming with conventional methods.”

“The venerable LinkRunner has served IT professionals for over two decades as the most popular connectivity tester in existence,” said James Kahkoska, NetAlly Chief Technology Officer.  “Implementing our AllyWare™ common technology platform on LinkRunner AT has enabled the complete transformation of these instruments with functionalities present in NetAlly’s more advanced testers while providing a familiar user experience, both on the testers as well as in Link-Live.”

Lee Badman, wireless network architect at Wirednot, said, “The latest LinkRunner AT from NetAlly upgrades this very handy product line in all the right ways – from support for the latest PoE standards and switch interfaces to rework of the user interface for ultra-effectiveness, the reasons to invest or upgrade are many.”

The new LinkRunner AT models are available from NetAlly’s authorized channel partners across North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information: https://www.netally.com/linkrunner-ethernet-testers/

Single instrument combines edge network vulnerability scanning with Wi-Fi and BT/BLE

wireless network performance testing and surveying.

Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA – March 5, 2024 – Today, NetAlly announced the expansion of
its cybersecurity assessment product line with the addition of CyberScope® Air, a Wi-Fi
vulnerability scanner and tester for assessing the security posture of WLANs against policies,
generating compliance reports, and performing ongoing monitoring for changes.
“The CyberScope family of tools are the first and only devices I’ve seen that can address
network security in meaningful ways at the network edge,” says Jennifer Minella, cybersecurity
author and co-host of the Packet Protector podcast.
Minella continues, “These tools bridge the gap between security and network operations in
meaningful ways, by allowing on-demand or pre-configured security assessments to test for the
vulnerabilities and misconfigurations that most often contribute to breaches, malware, and
other incidents.”
In April last year, NetAlly introduced CyberScope, the world’s first wired Ethernet and wireless
handheld edge network vulnerability scanner for in-depth cybersecurity assessments.
CyberScope Air offers a wireless-only version for security practitioners and network engineers
focused on wireless edge networks.
“With the massive proliferation of endpoints and ubiquitous connectivity in edge networks,
security professionals need a fast and easy way to have ‘eyes on’ all of the devices at the sites
they manage,” says James Kahkoska, NetAlly CTO.
With today’s announcement, NetAlly amplifies the power of CyberScope’s discovery capabilities
with new capabilities in their Link-Live collaboration, reporting and analytics platform, providing
fast insight into the devices in a site network over time.
New graphical dashboards provide instant insight into endpoints and network configurations
allowing easy exploration in chart, table, or topology views. The Discovery Monitoring feature
allows automated daily, weekly, or monthly snapshots to be uploaded to Link-Live to track new
and missing devices or Wi-Fi access points and clients. Powerful filtering and grouping allow

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analysis to instantly identify new devices, changes within a device, or for tracking specific
devices and types over time.
Mike Parrottino, NetAlly CEO adds, “The release of CyberScope Air is another milestone in
NetAlly’s efforts to bring our thirty years of experience in network visibility technology to
cybersecurity professionals whose current toolset lacks in-depth, tactical situational awareness
in edge networks.”
According to NetAlly, their CyberScope family of products help security practitioners by:

 Easily validating security controls at the edge.
 Inventorying everything including IoT, OT, unmanaged devices.
 Quickly testing and demonstrating policy compliance.
 Enabling collaboration and sharing between teams.

For more information, visit https://cyberscope.netally.com

About NetAlly
For decades, the NetAlly ®  family of network test and analysis solutions has been helping
network and cybersecurity professionals better deploy, manage, maintain, and secure today’s
complex wired and wireless networks. Since creating the industry’s first handheld network
analyzer in 1993, NetAlly continues to set the standard for portable network analysis and
cybersecurity assessment with tools that include EtherScope® nXG, CyberScope®, AirMagnet®,
LinkRunner ® , LinkSprinter®, AirCheck™, and more. NetAlly simplifies the complexities of
network testing and cybersecurity assessments, provides instant visibility for efficient problem
resolution, and enables seamless collaboration between site personnel and remote experts. To
learn more and see how NetAlly helps network and security professionals get their jobs done
faster, visit https://netally.com, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Linked-in, Instagram or
YouTube