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ADF Solutions Triage-Examiner

May 01, 2012 |

ADF Solutions Triage-Examiner is a forensic tool that scans target devices whether they are powered on or off. The product reduces forensic backlogs and dedicates resources to collecting evidence.

Cellebrite UFED Ultimate

May 01, 2012 |

Cellebrite UFED Ultimate is a forensic tool for gathering information from portable devices, such as cell phones, tablets, PDAs, memory sticks, standalone GPS devices and USB drives.

Cyber Security Technologies Mac Marshal Field Edition

May 01, 2012 |

NIKSUN NetDetector Alpine

May 01, 2012 |

NetDetector Alpine v4.2 is the most up-to-date version of NIKSUN’s network traffic-monitoring hardware that audits and informs users of network security threats.

Paraben Device Seizure v4.6

May 01, 2012 |

Paraben Device Seizure v4.6 is a software package that assists forensic investigators in the examination of mobile devices, allowing data acquisition of both logical and physical devices.

RSA NetWitness

May 01, 2012 |

RSA NetWitness is a network-monitoring system designed to handle a wide range of information.

Technology Pathways ProDiscover Incident Response v7.1.0.5

May 01, 2012 |

Technology Pathways ProDiscover IR v7.1.0.5 aims to provide streamlined previews, imaging and analysis of live systems.

WetStone Technologies US-LATT

May 01, 2012 |

Once the kinks are worked out in initial setup, the equipment performs adequately, working according to the defined parameters.

AccessData Group Forensic Toolkit (FTK) v4

May 01, 2012 |

The suite of computer forensic tools from AccessData Group that we tested is a nearly complete examiner’s tool kit.

AlienVault Professional Threat Management S3000

April 02, 2012 |

Part of the fun of doing these product reviews is that we get to see new products as they emerge into the marketplace. AlienVault’s Professional Threat Management S3000 is no exception.

LogLogic MX

April 02, 2012 |

When we first saw LogLogic a few years ago, it was a strong log management appliance that could do some nifty stuff, but overall was focused on log management.

LogRhythm

April 02, 2012 |

Back again this year is one of the most powerful SIEMs that we have seen, and it is more powerful than ever with the new version 6.

McAfee Enterprise Security Manager (ESM)

April 02, 2012 |

The Enterprise Security Manager is a new iteration of our old friend, the NitroView from NitroSecurity. McAfee has found a real winner with this product.

Trustwave SIEM

April 02, 2012 |

The Trustwave SIEM appliance is designed to collect, normalize, analyze and store events and logs from a wide array of network devices and security products.

CorreLog Correlation Server v5.1.0

April 02, 2012 |

The CorreLog Server is a web-based solution that leverages browser technology to present an easy-to-use, multi-platform interface that stresses point-and-click simplicity for the harried network administrator.

Prism Microsystems EventTracker v7.2

April 02, 2012 |

EventTracker is designed to track events and track them well.

GFI Software GFI EventsManager 2012

April 02, 2012 |

GFI Software is one of the smaller vendors in the SIEM market. However, size doesn’t matter if you build quality into a product like GFI has done with its GFI EventsManager 2012.

NetIQ Sentinel 7

April 02, 2012 |

NetIQ’s Sentinel 7 looks deep into Syslogs, simple network management protocol (SNMP) incidents and other event-driven reporting mechanisms to sum up the security health of a network.

SolarWinds Log & Event Manager v5.3

April 02, 2012 |

SolarWinds is one of the smaller players in the SIEM market, but as a vendor specializing in system management and reporting tools, the company has the intelligence to effectively create a SIEM product.

Tenable Network Security Log Correlation Engine v3.6

April 02, 2012 |

LCE is all about processing system logs and putting some sense to them in the form of intelligence and correlation.

Tripwire Log Center v6.5

April 02, 2012 |

ADTRAN NetVanta 2630W

March 01, 2012 |

The NetVanta from ADTRAN offers some nice functionality in a small package.

Astaro Security Gateway

March 01, 2012 |

The Astaro Security Gateway is a flexible, full gateway security appliance that can be deployed and configured to fit almost any environment.

Cyberoam CR1000ia

March 01, 2012 |

The Cyberoam CR1000ia is a full-feature network security gateway that provides solid protection from a multitude of threats.

eSoft InstaGate 604

March 01, 2012 |

The eSoft InstaGate provides solid protection designed for the small to midsized business environment.

Fortinet FortiWiFi-40c

March 01, 2012 |

The FortiWiFi-40c from Fortinet provides features such as a firewall, intrusion prevention system, application control, virtual private network (VPN) and web content filtering all in one device.

gateProtect GPZ 2500

March 01, 2012 |

The gateProtect GPZ 2500 is quite possibly the be all and end all of perimeter network security.

Kerio Technologies Kerio Control

March 01, 2012 |

Kerio Control from Kerio Technologies is comprised of software that can be installed on a dual-homed Microsoft Windows machine at the gateway or it is available as a virtual appliance for use in a VMware ESX environment.

M86 Secure Web Gateway v10.1

March 01, 2012 |

M86 Secure Web Gateway (SWG) proactively safeguards against malware and Web 2.0 threats using patented real-time code analysis (RTCA), dynamic web repair (DWR) technologies, and granular social media controls.

NETGEAR ProSecure UTM9S v2.0.16-0

March 01, 2012 |

The NetGear UTM9S is an all-in-one security appliance that is deployed at the internet gateway.

SmoothWall UTM-1000

March 01, 2012 |

The SmoothWall UTM-1000 appliance combines SmoothWall Guardian Web Security with network security functions.

SonicWALL NSA 4500 v5.8.1

March 01, 2012 |

The NSA 4500 is a purpose-built appliance that can be deployed at the edge of a network, inside a network between various network segments, or inline behind existing security solutions.

VASCO Data Security aXsGUARD Gatekeeper v7.6.4

March 01, 2012 |

The Vasco aXsGUARD Gatekeeper v7.6.4 is an authentication appliance intended for small and midsized enterprises.

WatchGuard XTM 810 Security Bundle v11.5.1

March 01, 2012 |

The WatchGuard XTM 810 Security Bundle is a full-featured security appliance for midsize businesses.

Wedge Networks BeSecure 1005G Anti-malware Gateway v4.0.1

March 01, 2012 |

The Wedge BeSecure Anti-malware Gateway is a family of web security appliances, capable of real-time deep content inspection for thousands of concurrent web, email, and FTP sessions.

HighCloud Security

This looks like a company that applied security solutions to challenges in the virtual world that are virtual versions of physical world problems.

Intigua

Intigua has fixed it so one agent of a particular type can be used for all of the virtual machines that need it, instead of putting an agent on each VM.

HyTrust Appliance

HyTrust, essentially, manages admins in a virtual world.

Co3 Systems

Co3 handles the worst nightmare of most executives: the aftermath of a successful security incident that hits personally identifiable information of lots of people.

Catbird vSecurity 5.0

Basically, Catbird does for the virtual data center what it did “back in the day” for physical data centers.

Core Security Technologies Core Impact v12

February 01, 2012 |

Core Impact Professional started life as a pure-play penetration test tool.

eEye Digital Security Retina CS

February 01, 2012 |

The Retina CS from eEye Digital Security provides a multitude of vulnerability scanning and management features and functions.

Fortinet FortiScan-3000C

February 01, 2012 |

The FortiScan-3000C from Fortinet provides full agent-based and agent-less vulnerability scanning, as well as patch management capabilities and remediation.

GFI LanGuard 2011

February 01, 2012 |

LanGuard 2011 from GFI is a powerful vulnerability management application.

Lumension Scan

February 01, 2012 |

Lumension Scan is a part of the larger Lumension Vulnerability Management platform.

McAfee Vulnerability Manager

February 01, 2012 |

The McAfee Vulnerability Manager comes loaded to the gills with powerful onboard tools for solid vulnerability management.

netVigilance Internal Scan - Cloud

February 01, 2012 |

Rapid7 Nexpose Enterprise Edition

February 01, 2012 |

The Nexpose Enterprise Edition appliance from Rapid7 is another tool that has grown into a vastly different product over the years.

Saintscanner and Saintexploit

February 01, 2012 |

Last year at about this time, we were introduced to Saintbox from Saint and found it a wonderful marriage of all the Saint products in one easy-to-use appliance.

SecPoint Penetrator

February 01, 2012 |

Unlike traditional hardware appliances, this product is available as both a rack mount server, but also as a smaller Dell OptiPlex unit.

Secunia Corporate Software Inspector (CSI)

February 01, 2012 |

The Corporate Software Inspector (CSI) from Secunia takes an interesting approach to vulnerability assessment.

Tenable Network Security Nessus ProfessionalFeed

February 01, 2012 |

Back again this year is our old friend Nessus from Tenable Network Security. For as long as most can remember, this has been a necessary tool in any vulnerability assessment toolkit.

ManageEngine Security Manager Plus

February 01, 2012 |

ManageEngine Security Manager Plus from Zoho is a full-scale tool that provides a lot of punch in a relatively tiny package.

ActivIdentity 4TRESS Authentication Appliance FT2011

January 03, 2012 |

ActivIdentity 4TRESS Authentication Appliance FT2011 is a versatile server providing strong authentication to a wide range of services and online applications.

Cryptocard Blackshield Server v3.1

January 03, 2012 |

The Cryptocard Blackshield Server v3.1 is designed as an authentication service delivery platform, automating all tasks around user and token management, provisioning, reporting and billing.

Deepnet Security DualShield v5.2

January 03, 2012 |

DualShield v5.2 from Deepnet Security is a unified authentication platform, using the versatile authentication server model.

DigitalPersona Pro Enterprise v5.2

January 03, 2012 |

DigitalPersona Pro Enterprise v5.2 is a centrally managed suite of solutions – access management, data protection and secure communications – that protect data and control access to PCs and applications.

Entrust IdentityGuard

January 03, 2012 |

IdentityGuard from Entrust offers a plethora of multifactor authentication methods that can be used throughout the enterprise, as well as for customer-facing web applications, such as online banking and web-based account management.

PhoneFactor

January 03, 2012 |

PhoneFactor provides the addition of second-factor authentication using something everyone has: This product uses a phone as a token.

SecureAuth Identity Enforcement Platform

January 03, 2012 |

This product leverages an already existing Microsoft Active Directory or LDAP (lightweight directory access protocol) structure to add multifactor authentication to a host of services and applications.

Swivel Secure PINsafe

January 03, 2012 |

The PINsafe from Swivel Secure takes a user’s fixed personal identification number and randomly generates a one-time login code that is sent to the user to enter as part of a second factor for authentication.

Vasco Data Security Digipass Go 7 and Identikey Server

January 03, 2012 |

The Digipass Go 7 and Identikey Server from Vasco Data Security work together to provide strong multifactor authentication throughout the enterprise.

Armorlogic Profense Web Application Firewall

November 01, 2011 |

The Profense Web Application Firewall from Armorlogic provides solid protection of web applications by creating a reverse proxy in which all traffic is filtered through the appliance before being sent to the application servers.

Astaro Security Gateway

November 01, 2011 |

The Astaro Security Gateway is a full-featured unified threat management (UTM)-based gateway with some solid web application protection functionality.

Barracuda Networks Web Application Firewall

November 01, 2011 |

The Barracuda Networks Web Application Firewall can protect vital web applications from possible exploit by hackers.

F5 Networks BIG-IP Application Security Manager

November 01, 2011 |

The BIG-IP Application Security Manager (ASM) from F5 Networks protects web applications from being vulnerable to threats, such as data theft and damage.

Imperva SecureSphere Web Application Firewall

November 01, 2011 |

The SecureSphere Web Application Firewall from Imperva offers up some interesting functionality.

Trustwave WebDefend

November 01, 2011 |

WebDefend from Trustwave offers up some excellent features beyond strictly being a firewall.

Fortinet FortiWeb-400B

November 01, 2011 |

The FortiWeb-400B from Fortinet provides a full application firewall that protects web-facing applications and data from theft, leakage or attack.

Forum Systems Sentry WAF

November 01, 2011 |

The Sentry WAF from Forum Systems is a full-feature web application firewall that provides comprehensive protection to almost any web application, including HTML, JSON, XML and SOAP.

Application Security DbProtect v6.2

November 01, 2011 |

DbProtect v6.2 is a software solution that combines discovery, vulnerability scanning, real-time audit and threat management to help organizations reduce risk and enhance compliance.

Fortinet FortiDB-400B

November 01, 2011 |

Fortinet FortiDB-400B provides a suite of functions, including database activity monitoring, audit and compliance reporting, and vulnerability assessment.

Imperva SecureSphere Database Activity Monitoring v8.5

November 01, 2011 |

SecureSphere Database Activity Monitoring (DAM) v8.5 from Imperva continuously monitors and audits all database operations, including privileged user access and response, to detect and block attacks and data leaks.

McAfee Database Activity Monitoring v4.2

November 01, 2011 |

McAfee Database Security is a software solution that monitors the database management system (DBMS) and protects it from both internal and external threats.

NitroSecurity NitroView DBM v8.5

November 01, 2011 |

NitroView DBM is part of the NitroSecurity unified security management system. There are several layers of offerings available.

Check Point Full Disk Encryption vE80.20

October 03, 2011 |

Check Point Endpoint Security is a suite of software modules (called “Software Blades”) building comprehensive control of threats and unifying endpoint security under a single console.

Credant Technologies Credant Enterprise Server v7.1.2

October 03, 2011 |

Credant Enterprise Server v7.1.2 protects endpoint data wherever it resides.

Safend Data Protection Suite v3.4SP4

October 03, 2011 |

Safend Data Protection Suite (DPS) v3.4SP4 protects against data leakage by providing centrally managed desktop and laptop hard disk encryption.

Sophos SafeGuard Enterprise v5.6

October 03, 2011 |

Sophos SafeGuard Enterprise v5.6 uses FIPS 140-2 validated cryptography deployed and managed from an easy-to-use console.

Trustwave Encryption v4.3

October 03, 2011 |

Trustwave Encryption provides an integrated solution for encryption of disks, persistent files on shares, desktops, laptops, USB devices and email attachments.

WinMagic SecureDoc Full Disc Encryption v5.2SR2

October 03, 2011 |

WinMagic SecureDoc is a full-disk encryption (FDE) management solution that includes client agents for Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems and server software (SecureDoc Enterprise Server).

Code Green TrueDLP

October 03, 2011 |

The Code Green data leakage prevention tool comes as a purpose-built appliance.

Fidelis XPS

October 03, 2011 |

The Fidelis suite is a lot more complicated than some other DLP offerings. It is composed of a combination of appliances that perform different leakage prevention tasks.

Trustwave DLP

October 03, 2011 |

The Trustwave DLP is, hands down, the best-thought-out DLP product we have seen.

Cryptzone Secured eFile, Secured eUSB v4.8.3, Secured eCollaboration

October 03, 2011 |

Cryptzone Secured eFile and Secured eUSB are part of the Simple Encryption Platform (SEP). Secured eFile is a file and folder encryption application for network share drives, desktops, laptops, CD/DVDs, USB flash drives and USB external hard drives.

Data Encryption Systems DESlock+ Pro v4.1.12

October 03, 2011 |

DESlock+ Pro v4.1.12 full-disk encryption provides both pre-boot authentication and fast, transparent data security using FIPS-compliant, 256-bit encryption.

PGP Whole Disk Encryption from Symantec v10.3

October 03, 2011 |

PGP Whole Disk Encryption from Symantec encrypts all the contents on the disk on a block-by-block basis.

BlackBox Network Services Veri-NAC

September 01, 2011 |

Veri-NAC is a hardware appliance solution that controls access to the network for any device that may be seeking an IP address.

ForeScout CounterACT 6.3.4

September 01, 2011 |

ForeScout CounterACT is a hardware appliance which works out-of-band on the network to control access for endpoint devices.

McAfee NAC Appliance 5.2

September 01, 2011 |

McAfee’s NAC solution is actually three components that work together: McAfee NAC Appliance, NAC software and NAC module for Network Security Platform.

Sophos NAC Advanced 3.2.6

September 01, 2011 |

Sophos NAC Advanced is a software NAC solution typically deployed on dedicated Windows 2003/2008 environments using Microsoft SQL 2005/2008.

Trustwave NAC 3.8

September 01, 2011 |

Trustwave NAC is a hardware solution comprised of a management console and sensors, which are deployed throughout the network for distributed capabilities.

Avatier Identity Management Suite

September 01, 2011 |

The Avatier Identity Management Suite is a solid, full-scale, user lifecycle management tool.

Centrify Suite 2011

September 01, 2011 |

The Centrify Suite provides administrators a way to integrate UNIX, Linux and Mac OS X users into the already existing Active Directory structure for seamless user and policy management across the enterprise.

Ensim Unify Enterprise Edition

September 01, 2011 |

Unify from Ensim provides a full-scale user provisioning and account management platform that can plug into several user platforms throughout the enterprise for easy centralized management.

Evidian Access Management

September 01, 2011 |

Access Management is a piece of Evidian’s larger Identity and Access Management Suite.

Fischer Identity

September 01, 2011 |

Fischer Identity is an all-in-one user account provisioning and management tool that can plug into almost any authentication platform throughout the enterprise.

Hitachi ID Systems Identity Manager

September 01, 2011 |

The Identity Manager from Hitachi ID Systems is part of the Hitachi ID Management Suite.

Novell Identity Manager by NetIQ

September 01, 2011 |

Novell Identity Manager by NetIQ provides comprehensive account management across enterprise systems, including physical, virtual and cloud-based environments.