April 01, 2013
FortiDDoS is an appliance that examines data packets in a variety of ways to separate DDoS packets from legitimate packets.
February 01, 2013
The secret behind the MetaFlows Security System (MSS) is that it really is a hybrid application.
January 02, 2013
DesktopDirect is a simple - though not at all simplistic - RDP gateway.
October 01, 2012
Seeker from Quotium takes a somewhat different approach to application security from most similar products.
October 01, 2012
Because people have behavioral characteristics, the Silver Tail Forensics 3.0 - latest incarnation of this fine tool - can catch and stop them while providing analytical capabilities for forensic analysts.
August 01, 2012
Authenticating to a SaaS application in the cloud should be simple. It now Is.
April 02, 2012
The forsenic tool, FTK 4.0 with Cerberus and Visualization from AccessData, blew me away.
February 01, 2012
This month's First Look specializes in whole disk encryption and, unlike many other products, can do the entire process of encryption and encrypted disk access throughout the enterprise.
January 03, 2012
The NetClarity NACWall Nano is NAC on steroids, sized and priced for small and midsize businesses (SMBs).
November 01, 2011
This product was developed with the idea that executives could measure and report the state of the security tools they were using.
September 01, 2011
Tools designed particularly for network forensics have some important capabilities not shared by tools whose job is solely to alert on a policy violation.
July 01, 2011
PrivateEye from Oculis Labs blurs the computer screen to unreadability when the authorized user is not in front of it, and notifies the user when someone is shoulder-surfing.
June 01, 2011
What, in terms of security, should you expect from your cloud provider?
April 01, 2011
Trusted Access for Banking from IronKey provides assured, secure online banking connection for commercial banking customers.
February 01, 2011
ActivIdentity 4TRESS Authentication Appliance for Banking v 7.0
January 03, 2011
This product is from a brand new company and I predict big things for it if the management team continues down the road they're on now.
November 01, 2010
A new product from Netronome called SSL Inspector claims to be the first product of its type that does both in-band and out-of-band analysis.
October 01, 2010
Vantage is a must-have if you are planning your own corporate deployment.
August 02, 2010
The idea behind BitFlare is that you use a free CD to examine a computer.
July 01, 2010
A fully automated workflow system that performs exactly the way a person would in a manual vulnerability remediation process.
June 01, 2010
There is quite a bit to be said for combining some NOC and SOC resources, and that is where AccelOps enters the picture, says Peter Stephenson.
April 01, 2010
This tool from Passlogix is policy-driven and centrally managed making it a true enterprise-class product, says Peter Stephenson.
April 10, 2009
There are lots of neat "big product" features on the USG 200. Good stuff, lots of features, right price.
Every now and then, some bright security pro has a flash of brilliance. Sometimes those flashes are hidden under mundane challenges. Passlogix's new Shared Accounts Manager (SAM) is one of those products. The mundane problem is password sharing. There are many, what I refer to as, password carvers. These are intended to take passwords -- mostly administrator passwords -- and make them available to multiple users without compromising the password.
