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Network Security

Cyberguard KS1000 (Firewalls group test)

Company: CyberGuard Corporation
Pricing: $22,995
CyberGuard's enterprise-level KS1000 has an Intel Xeon processor running at 2.2
 

EngageIP Traffic Manager (Appliance group test)

Company: LogiSense Corporation
Pricing: from $8,495

The LogiSense EngageIP Traffic Manager appliance combines the security benefits of firewall and web content filtering with other features that include web caching, routing and bandwidth management, with real-time bandwidth consumption reporting and quality-of- service (QoS) shaping.

 

RealSecure Network Sensor (IDS group test)

Company: IBM-ISS
Pricing: $12,157 (incl. one-year maintenance)

RealSecure 7.0 is the result of the integration between RealSecure and the BlackICE NIDS sensor technology. It runs on a dedicated machine and acts as a NIPS sensor to monitor a network segment, looking for intrusions or suspicious activity. If an intrusion is suspected, it can respond by recording details ...

 

D-Link DSA-3100 Wireless Service Gateway

Company: D-Link
Pricing: $499

D-Link's latest wireless security offering, the DSA-3100 Wireless Service Gateway, is a network access control system designed to manage authentication, authorization and accounting for all wired and wireless users accessing a corporate or public access WiFi network through the device. Features include IP plug and play, station isolation, traffic management ...

 

TSP3600 (Group Test: Enterprise Firewalls)

Company: CyberGuard
Pricing: $35,975

CyberGuard's TSP3600 is a beast of a firewall. A case 5U high houses a RAID array for data protection, 13 Gigabit Ethernet ports and one Fast Ethernet (up to a maximum of 30 ports) – more than enough ports to cope with very large networks.

 

TEROS-100 APS

Company: Teros
Pricing: $25,000

Remember the halcyon days of the dot-com boom, when analysts were insisting that no company worth its salt could continue in business unless they had a web presence? Their weighted words were sufficiently terrifying to ensure that businesses rushed to add that all-important 'e' to their trading, resulting in countless ...

 

NetScreen-IDP100 (IDS group test)

Company: NetScreen Technologies Inc
Pricing: $16,495

NetScreen uses multi-method detection (MMD) in its IDS appliance, which also includes intrusion prevention options. MMD integrates stateful signature analysis with the detection of protocol anomalies, traffic anomalies, IP spoofing, layer 2 and SYN-flood attacks. Plus, it includes detection of 'backdoor' exploits and a network honeypot. The NetScreen IDP-100 is ...

 

eTrust Intrusion Detection (IDS group test)

Company: Computer Associates Int.
Pricing: $3,300

This solution provides a network-based IDS, real-time session monitoring and internet/email content blocking. eTrust Intrusion Detection can be installed in standalone mode, or it can be distributed on separate machines. The intrusion detection program installs as a service under Windows NT/2000. As usual, the monitoring interface is a NIC in ...

 

Microsoft ISA Server 2000 (Firewall group test)

Company: Microsoft Corporation
Pricing: $1,499 (Standard Edition)

Back in the world of software, we have Microsoft's entry in the firewall market. Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server (ISA Server) is a fully-featured firewall with a number of bells and whistles that add considerable functionality and security.

 

Symantec ManHunt (IDS group test)

Company: Symantec Corporation
Pricing: from $12,250 (100Mbps)

This software network-based IDS product requires a dedicated machine running Solaris 8 on either Sun SPARC or Intel hardware. The hardware specification depends on the amount of traffic to be monitored, and gigabit monitoring interfaces are supported. We were supplied with a pre-installed system running on a Dell PowerEdge rack-mounted ...