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"Recommended" Products of 2011

We've assembled here those products and services which were deemed SC Lab Approved in 2011. This designation is granted to a select few tools which are extraordinary standouts that fit into the SC Lab environment, and which will be used subsequently in the SC Lab's test bench for the coming year.

Assembled here are the products selected so far in 2011 by SC Magazine as Best Buy. The Best Buy designation goes to the product in our monthly Group Tests that the SC Lab rates as outstanding.

In case studies, we focus on how end-users have deployed and managed various security products or services. These profiles include interviews with a vendor and customer.