Peter Stephenson,CeRNS,
Recent articles by Peter Stephenson,CeRNS,
Review: Mcafee Internet Gateway 3000
A strong feature set makes McAfee’s Security Internet Gateway (SIG) a heavy hitter in any organisation’s architecture. The SIG provides anti-virus scanning against all protocols, while anti-spyware scanning blocks potentially harmful spyware, cookies and adware from getting on to the network. To protect against spam the SIG uses an engine consisting of anti-spam, anti-phishing rule sets, permit-or-deny lists and a spam-learning feature. The SIG enforces policy and compliance issues regarding out-going data transmission as well as some forms of data leakage. This appliance is easily configurable by IT staff and, once configured, requires minimal administrator intervention.
Apr 7 2008 4:00PM
Security
Review: ALADDIN eTOKEN
Aladdin’s eToken offers full enterprise-wide deployment and lifecycle management of all authentication tokens, users and support applications. The product uses an open standards-based architecture with support for security applications relying on configurable connecters.
Jan 25 2008 12:00AM
Security
Review: Imprivata OneSign v3.6
Convergence is the best word to sum up this appliance-based offering. Imprivata OneSign brings together three pieces of identity management. The first is authentication management, which replaces Windows-based authentication with stronger methods that can be managed in one place.
Jan 22 2008 12:00AM
Security
Review: ProtectID
StrikeForce’s ProtectID provides an open-architecture platform for strong user authentication. The product allows multiple authentication methods such as biometrics and mobile-phone authentication for remote users to be mixed and matched for customers needing multi-layered security access. No middleware is needed, thanks to its ability to link directly to a domain controller.
Jan 18 2008 4:01PM
Security
Review: Secureauth
Coupled with Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) SSL VPN, SecureAuth can offer same-day deployment with x.509 level user authentication. The product integrates seamlessly with many third-party applications such as Microsoft Active Directory, SQL and Oracle database.
Jan 17 2008 4:21PM
Security
Review: Novell Identity Manager 3.5
Novell Identity Manager is a complete identity management system, a workflow system that simplifies both provisioning and binding users to objects, a compliance auditing system, single sign-on, a designer component that allows drag and drop development of policies and workflows and a user interface that is both comprehensive and easy to use.
Jan 16 2008 4:08PM
Security
Review: TACS
The TriCipher Armored Credential System (TACS) is a truly integrated system that delivers authentication combining the strength of PKI with the ease of entering a user name and password. TACS’ main components are the ID vault, a FIPS 140-2 level 2-rated appliance that manages user information, digitally signs transactions and authenticates.
Jan 14 2008 2:58PM
Security
Review: PassGo Defender v5.2
Defender 5 deploys strong two-factor authentication controlled within Windows Active Directory to ensure that only authorised users have access to protected resources. It supports administration for multiple token types including hardware, software and Mobil SMS.
Jan 11 2008 2:53PM
Security
Review: Courion Enterprise Provisioning
Courion’s Enterprise Provisioning Suite can be summed up as a fully adaptable, tailor-made identity-management solution. Users can select specific components of the suite and have a platform that meets their specific needs. The process starts with what Courion calls Jump Start. This is exactly what it sounds like, getting the process up and running out of the box.
Jan 9 2008 3:03PM
Security
Review: NOD32
This product contains several pieces that integrate very well. When combined, it covers protection from viruses, worms, spyware and other malicious attacks. The pieces include anti-virus monitor, email monitor, document monitor and internet monitor. The monitors are delegated to serve their specific purpose; therefore, protection is complete and no one monitor is overburdened. The monitors work nicely together to proactively protect the computers.
Jun 1 2007 12:00AM
Security
Review: Proventia Desktop
Proventia Desktop focuses on two areas, the first being protection from spyware. This product analyses network downloads to stop the spread of new spyware, and also stops existing spyware from running by stopping unauthorised application communication outside the desktop.
Jun 1 2007 12:00AM
Security
