management
How are businesses facing up to the compliance challenge?
As businesses try to get to grips with an ever growing list of regulations, could the legislators actually be doing them a favour? I fought the law, and the law won - wise words indeed from The Clash, and the logic is indisputable. However, in the world of business compliance, not everything is black and white: what does your business need to comply with, and how? Will the process be a hindrance or a business boon?
Nov 13 2006 1:31PM
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
Beyond patch management
During my recent conversations with industry analysts about evolving security threats, the issue of security settings has become a main topic of discussion. Initially, anti-virus was adequate enough to protect systems from outside threats, but it soon became a service with a continual addition of virus signatures.
Oct 16 2006 10:26PM
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
Review: Centrify DirectControl
Centrify is a fairly young company, founded in 2004, but the problem its products seek to address goes back further than this. It is the perennial issue of providing an integrated and centralised approach to access control across disparate platforms, such as Windows, Unix, Linux and Mac. The issue is heightened by regulatory compliance obligations and associated audit requirements. Organisations with a large, mixed infrastructure can find themselves with a heavy workload in order to meet requirements in this context.
Oct 1 2006 12:00AM
Security
Review: AirMagnet Enterprise
AirMagnet is unusual in that it specialises in protecting wireless LANs, a very pertinent capability given the proliferation of wireless devices in the enterprise and the security headaches this can bring. The company's approach is also quite novel in that specialist hardware-based sensors are deployed and networked back to a software-based management server.
Oct 1 2006 12:00AM
Security
Review: Lockdown Enforcer
There are many approaches one could take to securing the network, with equally many tools available for each aspect of security. However, if undertaken on a blow-by-blow basis, one can unwittingly construct quite a complex arrangement of tools and service, which, in turn, brings complexity to the administration and support of the task itself.
Oct 1 2006 12:00AM
Security
