Security Management Strategies for the CIOAccess "Best antimalware products 2011"
This article is part of the September 2011 issue of The top 2011 security products: Information Security Readers' Choice Awards
gold winner ESET NOD32 ESET www.eset.com Whoever believes commoditization drained innovation and competition from the enterprise antimalware market clearly hasn’t been paying attention to ESET. After not placing in last year’s survey results, the Slovakian firm and its NOD32 Antivirus product leapfrogged its way to the top the 2011 Readers’ Choice Awards. Yet don’t confuse ESET with an upstart: The 20-year-old company has had an American presence in San Diego for years. NOD32 Antivirus offers protection from malware, email and Internet traffic scanning, and proactive threat detection. Information Security readers lauded the product for the frequency and speed of its signature updates, as well as for its ease of installation and management, effectiveness in detecting, blocking and cleaning up malware, and its alerting and reporting capabilities. In highlighting what differentiates NOD32 from competitors, ESET points to its Smart Scanner technology, which inspects SSL-encrypted communication channels like HTTPS and POP3S, and intelligently scans compressed ... Access >>>
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2011 Information Security magazine Readers' Choice Awards
by Information Security Staff
Readers pick the best security products.
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Best authentication products 2011
by Information Security Staff
Readers choose the best authentication products.
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Best intrusion detection/prevention products 2011
by Information Security Staff
Readers choose the best intrusion detection/prevention products.
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Best network access control products 2011
by Information Security Staff
ISM readers choose the best network access control products of 2011. See who won the gold.
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Best secure remote access products 2011
by Information Security Staff
Readers choose the best secure remote access products.
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Best unified threat management products 2011
by Information Security Staff
Readers choose the best unified threat management products.
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Best Web application firewalls 2011
by Information Security Staff
Our readers selected their favorite Web application firewalls. See which product took the top spot.
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Framework for building a vulnerability management lifecycle, program
by Diana Kelley
A robust vulnerability management program requires the integration of inventory, change and configuration management.
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2011 Information Security magazine Readers' Choice Awards
by Information Security Staff
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Best antimalware products 2011
by Information Security Staff
Readers rank the best antimalware products.
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Best identity and access management products 2011
by Information Security Staff
Readers choose the best identity and access management products.
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Best messaging security products 2011
by Information Security Staff
ISM readers choose the best messaging security products of 2011. See which one took home the gold.
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Best policy and risk management products 2011
by Information Security Staff
Readers choose the best policy and risk management products 2011.
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Best security information and event management products 2011
by Information Security Staff
Readers choose the best security information and event management products.
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Best vulnerability management products 2011
by Information Security Staff
Readers choose the best vulnerability management products.
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Best Web security products 2011
by Information Security Staff
Readers choose the best Web security products
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Microsoft BlueHat prize wins over Black Hat Crowd
by Robert Westervelt
Security pros say Microsoft’s contest to encourage development of new security technologies for its products is promising.
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Best antimalware products 2011
by Information Security Staff
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Columns
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Ranum chat: Enterprise information security architecture
by Marcus J. Ranum, Contributor
Security expert and Information Security magazine columnist Marcus Ranum continues a new bimonthly feature where he goes one-on-one with a fellow security industry insider. This month, Marcus talks to Gunnar Peterson, managing principal at Arctec Group, where he focuses on distributed systems security for large enterprise systems.
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Organizations need a new data security model to combat today’s threats
by Phil Gardner and Chris Silva
Modern threats require a fundamental shift in information security away from the fortress mentality.
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Bring back the lulz by changing up your information security model
by Michael S. Mimoso, Editorial Director
Security needs more lulz, but it’s not happening until we change our protection models, understand how our respective businesses work and concentrate on current threats and adversaries.
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Ranum chat: Enterprise information security architecture
by Marcus J. Ranum, Contributor
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