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Policy Management/Enforcement

SCM

First Look
Company: NetIQ
Pricing: Starts at $1,100 per server
NetIQ’s Secure Configuration Manager is one powerful tool.
 

Enterprise Suite 7

Company: BigFix
Pricing: Subscription: Starts at $5 per managed workstation
A series of client server and web-based components designed to assist with workstation/server configuration and vulnerability management.
 

DeviceExpert 5.1

Company: ManageEngine
Pricing: Starts at $795 for 25 devices
A web-based configuration and change management solution for network devices.
 

Global Management System

Company: SonicWALL
Pricing: Starts at $4,995 for 25 nodes
A Java-based web management platform that enables users to manage many key aspects of SonicWALL’s product line.
 

Symantec Enterprise Security Manager (Policy Management group test)

Company: Symantec Corp.
Pricing: $1,995 (manager), $995 (server agent), $95 (workstation)

The basis of any policy management tool is the ability to manage its users and to recognize potential problem areas. Some do this without agents and others prefer to manage policy enforcement with agents residing on both workstations and servers. This is the case for Symantec Enterprise Security Manager, which ...

 

Websense Enterprise (Group Test: Policy management)

Company: Websense
Pricing: $80 per user for 100 users

This suite of programs is designed to control access to the internet and keep the enemy at bay. It integrates with many third-party defense applications to offer a war room in a browser from which the state of the defenses can be examined, as well as dictating how the various ...

 

DiskNet Pro 4

Company: Reflex Magnetics
Pricing: $20-$45 per seat

A lot of companies are shouting that the next big threat to organizations will come from within – a problem that security professionals have known about for a very long time. As long as people are fallible, they will be tempted to look at things they shouldn't or steal things ...

 

Security Expressions (Policy Management group test)

Company: Supplier Pedestal Software, Inc.
Pricing: $495 (server), $30 (workstation)

Policy enforcement is only as good as your management system allows, so a serious vulnerability could go unnoticed without prior knowledge of the problem.

Security Expressions allows deployment using no-agent technology to ensure that, once installed on either Windows NT or 2000 systems, the administrator can add machines within a ...

 

NETconsent (Group Test: Policy management)

Company: NETconsent
Pricing: from $18 per seat

Targeting policies for email and web use, NETconsent is an on-screen employee policy development environment.

 

Enterprise Configuration Manager (Group Test: Policy management)

Company: Configuresoft
Pricing: from $995 per server for Windows and Solaris, $695 for Red Hat Linux

ECM started as a Windows inventory management tool, but has moved with the times. This release turns it into a systems policy management and compliance system for Windows, Solaris and Red Hat.