Firewalls, IPsec VPNs

Company: NCP Engineering

Pricing: $180

NCP Secure Enterprise Client & Management is a one-click VPN software client suite that combines seven separate endpoint security functions into a single product.

Company: Altor Networks

Pricing: $2,000 per ESX host, plus $5,000 for the management center; additional cost for the optional reporting module whose price varies by the size of the deployment

The Altor VF virtual firewall is the product of both innovative thinking and marketing.

Company: Palo Alto Networks

Pricing: $60,000

The Palo Alto product has identified about 900 applications that it can manage directly.

Company: SonicWALL

Pricing: $995

SonicWALL has developed a new deep packet inspection technique that does not require the analysis engine to play an entire message stream before it can perform its analysis.

Company: Altor Networks

There are several aspects of using Altor VF that are tailor-made for a virtualized environment.

Company: Altor Networks

Pricing: Starts at $5,000 for one Altor Center and $2,000 for each Enforcement Module; support is 15 percent of list.

The emerging popularity of virtual computing has very few blemishes considering its youth. One of those, unfortunately, is security both of the underlying operating environment and of the individual virtual machines.

Company: Armorlogic .

Pricing: $5,950

This product is one of two software-based offerings submitted for this month’s Group Test. The Profense software includes a hardened OS and installs on most standard hardware. It turns a piece of general purpose hardware into a dedicated application acceleration and security gateway.

Company: Applicure

Pricing: $3,995 (perpetual); $1,800 (annual subscription)

This completely unique offering from Applicure protects IIS- or Apache-based web servers running on a Microsoft Windows machine. However, while dotDefender has unique characteristics, many other offerings provide similar protection, and much more. The tool does provide a valuable service, but it does not protect enough to offset the headaches ...

Company: Stonesoft

Pricing: $4,027

This appliance-based offering runs on a 1U height, small form device. The Stonesoft StoneGate 310 provides four Ethernet interfaces, which can be separately addressed and configured. The tool is primarily a stateful inspection-based firewall, which has additional options for inspections. These allow for the device to perform deep packet inspection ...

Company: McAfee

Pricing: from $1,900 up to $69,900

This appliance-based offering runs on a 1U rack-mounted device. The Secure Firewall provides eight Ethernet interfaces, which can be separately addressed and configured. The tool is primarily a proxy-based firewall with options to perform stateful inspection of protocols as a secondary configuration.