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Firewalls, IPsec VPNs

NCP Secure Enterprise Client & Management

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.
 

Altor VF

First Look
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.
 

PA-4000 series next generation firewall

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Company: Palo Alto Networks
Pricing: $60,000
The Palo Alto product has identified about 900 applications that it can manage directly.
 

SonicWALL TZ 210 Wireless-N

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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.
 

Altor VF

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

Altor Networks Altor VF v3.0

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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.
 

Profense Professional

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.
 

dotDefender

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 ...
 

StoneGate 310

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 ...
 

Secure Firewall

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.