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Review: WEBSENSE WEB SECURITY 6.3
Websense is a venerable player in the web content filtering arena and this year's entry was no exception to its record of solid products. The Web Security Suite 6.3 is a collection of capabilities in a single software package that addresses most challenges of internet access from the enterprise. The product requires its own server and runs in several operating environments, including Windows and Linux.
Feb 12 2007 12:00AM
Security
Survey: SCMagazine.com - the website that information security professionals recommend
More than 80 percent of IT security professionals who visit SCMagazine.com would recommend the site to their colleagues, while another 61 percent agree that the information they find on the site helps them to do their jobs better, according to a December reader survey conducted by Harvey Research on SC Magazine's behalf.
Jan 26 2007 2:33PM
Security
Review: SealedMedia E-DRM
SealedMedia is a client/server implementation with four components. A license server manages what the company calls a classification-based rights model; a management website offers provisioning for users, rights model management and documentation; and a management console is used for administration. The final part is the desktop, the user's tool for sealing documents.
Jan 8 2007 12:00AM
Security
Review: Multi Network Firewall 2
Mandriva's Multi Network Firewall 2 uses the open source OpenVPN and takes some of the difficulty out of using this approach. We found that the web interface helps make simple steps of creating users and user certificates, which streamlines the process immensely. We liked the organized web interface and found it easy to use.
Dec 18 2006 12:00AM
Security
Review: Tenable Security Center
The Tenable Security Center has massive capability wrapped in a single, easy-to-navigate interface. While the overall use of the application is fairly intuitive, once users explore more deeply, they may find that it becomes complex and intricate. This allows for great flexibility, but also requires some time of using the product and learning how to maximize its capability for the specific environment.
Dec 18 2006 12:00AM
Security
Review: TriGeo SIM
From the time it is plugged in, all the way through day-to-day management, TriGeo SIM is simple to use. The appliance comes with many rule sets already preconfigured for most security situations, while setting rules for specific environments is made easy by the Rule Builder. This tool uses different modules with rule parts that you just drag and drop into the right place and the rule is created. Filters also are easy to configure using the same process. The main console interface is simple and intuitive to navigate as well.
Dec 18 2006 12:00AM
Security
Review: Activeworx Security Center
We found this product required some time to work with and to learn about its massive capability. Set-up overall was fairly simple, but the user interface is a little clumsy in the beginning. The Security Center desktop is quite overwhelming at first, with multiple view selections, tabs and tree menus. But once we started working with the interface, we found it quite efficient.
Dec 11 2006 12:00AM
Security
Review: ID-Certify
We now find ourselves in a world of regulatory compliance. It didn't use to be that way, but it is a fact of life we cannot ignore. In a sense, it is good for us who administer and manage IT systems as it forces us to adopt responsible practices, especially around access control.
Dec 11 2006 12:00AM
Security
Review: Solsoft Policy Server 7
Within any sizeable network, the issues around maintaining known configurations from a security perspective can become problematic. Similarly, maintaining a compliant infrastructure, together with its attendant processes, can represent quite a challenge. Add to this the requirements for change control, access control and other factors, and one can readily appreciate that this challenge can become significant in terms of both resource and cost.
Dec 11 2006 12:00AM
Security
Review: Nortel VPN Gateway 3050
Setting up this product is not a simple task. Most of the setup is done via the command line, but the documentation does not help guide through this process very well. We found ourselves looking through different guides trying to locate configuration information. The absence of a quickstart card or a getting started guide makes this task even more difficult.
Dec 1 2006 12:00AM
Security
Review: GTB Inspector 10.0
The GTB Inspector 10.0 is a different type of product from the others we looked at in this group test. While the other solutions, with one exception, focus on protecting documents at rest and in transit, GTB Technologies' offering is designed to prevent unauthorized outbound transmissions of confidential information in violation of the organization's corporate policies. This gives it a core capability of extrusion prevention as opposed to digital rights management in the traditional sense.
Nov 1 2006 12:00AM
Security
Review: secure2trust
This impressive E-DRM application is a desktop product in that it requires no server and instead attaches document rights to the individual document. We like this product, and, despite weak support, rate this our enterprise Best Buy. Interestingly, secure2trust can be deployed as either a simple desktop DRM application or as a full-blown E-DRM system using the server to manage the clients over a large, distributed enterprise.
Nov 1 2006 12:00AM
Security
Review: LM Document Control v6
Liquid Machines Document Control Version 6 is an enterprise-scale application that allows users to manage documents both on- and offline. The user develops a document, applies a policy to it and then makes the document available to collaborators.
Nov 1 2006 12:00AM
Security
Review: Workshare Protect Enterprise
Workshare Protect Enterprise Suite is a big program for big organisations. It is a true large-scale extrusion prevention application. Successful deployment of this client/server application requires configuration of Microsoft Server 2003 and Microsoft SQL Server, as well as detailed knowledge of these platforms. However, once installed, it is easy to use and can be customised for many different conditions and controls.
Nov 1 2006 12:00AM
Security
Review: SEM3210
High Tower pre-configures all the equipment before it is shipped to the end-user, so when the appliance arrives there are just a few simple steps to complete before it is online and ready to go. We found this product to be quite simple to use, thanks to the intuitive user interface that includes an easy-to-read dashboard-type console. We were impressed by the clean look of all parts of the console. This product displays a lot of vital information in one place in a clear manner.
Oct 11 2006 12:00AM
Security
Review: Security Center Lite
There are many approaches to vulnerability scanning and intrusion detection, depending upon the scale of your enterprise and the lengths to which you wish to go. Security Center Lite offers a relatively low-cost introduction to such tasks for infrastructures with up to 100 network nodes. For larger organisations, Security Center Pro can support an unlimited number of network nodes.
Oct 1 2006 12:00AM
Security
