Network security

StealthWatch employs a completely different approach to traditional IDS, based on signature recognition. Instead of looking for signatures, it 'learns' what kind of activity is normal on your network and looks for abnormal events. Behavior-based IDS has some advantages over signature-based IDS, because less processing power is required and previously ...

AEP System's A-Gate AG-600 is a Linux-based system with an Intel Pentium III processor coupled with 512Mb RAM in a 1U rack-mount chassis. The device can fit into most network topologies due to its four configurable 10/100 Base-T Ethernet connections.

At the small or home office end of the market we have the ZyWall 100 Internet Security Gateway. When we looked at the ZyWall 50 appliance in the VPN Group Test last year, we had a few concerns, such as build quality. This issue has clearly been addressed, since the ...

At the small or home office end of the market we have the ZyWall 100 Internet Security Gateway. When we looked at the ZyWall 50 appliance in the VPN Group Test last year, we had a few concerns, such as build quality. This issue has clearly been addressed, since the ...

Every now and then you find a product that has major warts but which really, under the warts, is a pretty good product. Then you wish the vendor would get its act together, because you would really like to buy and use the product.

Aventail was probably the first company to conceive and market the idea of the clientless SSL VPN. However it has only recently brought out its own hardware appliance that does such a job.

Cobion's OrangeBox Web is a very similar product to DynaComm i:filter. Designed to integrate with a proxy server (for example, Microsoft ISA on Windows 2000/XP), it is also happy to sit on a number of popular Linux and Unix platforms. It can also be used as a proxy server in ...

The software has three components, a server, an administration console and the client software installed on the systems to be managed. The server requires Microsoft SQL Server; the administration console will run on Windows NT 4.0 and above, and can be on the same system as the database if required.

Fortinet's FortiGate-800 offers eight Ethernet connections in its 1U height chassis, and four of these are 10/100/1000 Base-T connections. Three of the high-speed connections are designated for internal, external and DMZ networks, with the fourth reserved for a high-availability connection to other FortiGate 800 devices.

SonicWALL is another well-known name in the firewall arena, offering a range of products suitable for anything from the home user to the high-end of the market.