VENDOR: McAfee
WHAT: Full database monitoring and protection for many types of databases.
PRICE: Starting at $5,000
VENDOR: Imperva Inc
WHAT: Enormous feature set and flexible deployment options.
PRICE: $51,000
VENDOR: Fortinet
WHAT: Comprehensive feature set, solid platform, excellent documentation and support.
PRICE: $14,995 base
VENDOR: F5 Networks
WHAT: Powerful policy engine and robust feature set.
PRICE: $14,995 base.
VENDOR: Bayshore Networks
WHAT: Solid heuristic functions and features.
PRICE: Starting at $32,000 for hardware appliance.
VENDOR: Barracuda Networks
WHAT: A good buy for small to midsized businesses, though larger enterprises may want something more.
PRICE: $8,898 base with one year Energize Updates.
VENDOR: Application Security Inc
WHAT: We’re torn on this one. The product is good at what it does, but the limited MySQL support is strange. Obviously, MySQL shops will want to avoid everything but the vulnerability monitoring module, but everyone else could made good use of this tool.
PRICE: $5,100, includes vulnerability, rights and activity monitoring modules.
VENDOR: Forum Systems
WHAT: The Sentry WAF from Forum Systems is a full-feature web application firewall that provides comprehensive protection to almost any web application.
PRICE: $64,000
VENDOR: Fortinet
WHAT: The FortiWeb-400B from Fortinet provides a full application firewall that protects web-facing applications and data from theft, leakage or attack.
PRICE: $8,995
VENDOR: Trustwave
WHAT: WebDefend from Trustwave offers up some excellent features beyond strictly being a firewall.
PRICE: starts at $9,995