Security Management Strategies for the CIOAccess "Finding the best security testing tools for product evaluation"
This article is part of the December 2006 issue of What's your biggest information security concern?
Powerful new security testing tools examine and evaluate your security products and investments to ensure you won't be stuck with a lemon. The inline IPS appliance, firewall or VPN gateway you're considering spending tens of thousands of dollars deploying is supposed to be a Rolls-Royce, but it may be an Edsel. Meanwhile, the business people are pressing for quick implementations of new protocols and homegrown apps that haven't been properly scrubbed for security flaws. Nervous? You should be. The process of scrubbing products and kicking system tires for bugs and security seems endless: You endure nerve-wracking testing and patching drills; vendors work out their bugs with each release, but the pressure is on you. Without production-grade security product testing, how can you be sure your networks will run safely and smoothly when the rubber hits the road? To search for an answer, we test-drove the 10-ton wreckers of security testing tools for product evaluation; this new family of tools runs roughshod through systems, generating an onslaught of nasty ... Access >>>
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Finding the best security testing tools for product evaluation
Learn how you can use new information security tools to examine security products and investments, such as IPS, firewall or VPN gateway.
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Risk Management: Skybox Security's Skybox View 3.0
Read a security product review of Skybox Security's Skybox View 3.0.
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Host-Based IPS
Third Brigade's Deep Security 4.5
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Intrusion Detection: Lancope StealthWatch 5.5
Lancope's Lancope StealthWatch 5.5
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Protect What's Precious
We asked and you answered: Insiders, information leaks, compliance and the bottom line are your front-and-center priorities for 2007.
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Reconnex's iGuard v5 security tool review
by Tom Bowers, Contributor
Product review of Reconnex iGuard v5, a data protection security tool used for information leaks, compliance, perimeter security, traffic analysis and tracking.
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Finding the best security testing tools for product evaluation
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Security Products Latest Version Releases: CipherTrust, Infoblox
Get news on the latest version product releases; get setup, pricing and configuration info from vendors such as CipherTrust, Infoblox and Safend.
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Secure Reads: Multimedia Fingerprinting Forensics for Traitor Tracing
Read a quick review of Multimedia Fingerprinting Forensics for Traitor Tracing.
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Automated data classification drives security, storage convergence
Data classification products from a variety of startups are leading efforts to increase convergence of security, compliance and storage management.
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Antimalware: Prevx's Prevx1
Prevx's Prevx1
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Avoiding Audit Failure: Getting Advice on PCI Compliance Mistakes
Get advice from auditors on how to avoid audit failure and get PCI DSS compliant to prevent a security breach.
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Security Products Latest Version Releases: CipherTrust, Infoblox
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PING: Bernard Donnelly
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Perspectives: Lack of enforcement undercuts HIPAA
A lack of HIPAA enforcement makes physicians unwilling to change habits that threaten the security of data.
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Layer 8: Security managers come into their own
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Editor's Desk: More threats and more dollars
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