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Something new under the sun

Peter Stephenson April 02, 2012

The forsenic tool, FTK 4.0 with Cerberus and Visualization from AccessData, blew me away.

Enterprise whole disk encryption done right

Peter Stephenson 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.

NAC, juiced up

Peter Stephenson January 03, 2012

The NetClarity NACWall Nano is NAC on steroids, sized and priced for small and midsize businesses (SMBs).

How does your enterprise defense stack up?: nCircle Benchmark

Peter Stephenson 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.

Taking a deep dive into network events

Peter Stephenson 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.

The gods must be angry: Trusted Access for Banking

Peter Stephenson April 01, 2011

Trusted Access for Banking from IronKey provides assured, secure online banking connection for commercial banking customers.

Moving authentication to the infrastructure

Peter Stephenson February 01, 2011

ActivIdentity 4TRESS Authentication Appliance for Banking v 7.0

Good thing in a small package

April 10, 2009

There are lots of neat "big product" features on the USG 200. Good stuff, lots of features, right price.

Solutions to an old problem with a new, but solid twist

Peter Stephenson December 12, 2008

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.