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M86 Security is an established global provider of secure email and Web-protection solutions. The company’s core product portfolio, which includes Secure Web Gateway Appliance, WebMarshal, and MailMarshal, was significantly strengthened by M86’s March 2009 purchase of Avinti (advanced behaviour-based malware detection) and most recently through its high-profile acquisition of Finjan (enterprise-level secure Web gateway protection). Using its extended product set, M86 Security is able to correlate and prov…
Technology Audits - published 26/02/2010 - Andy Kellett
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IronKey Enterprise is a secure, encryption-based management solution for the protection of data that is copied to USB flash drives. Operating as removable storage devices, IronKey secure USB drives serve as encrypted repositories for passwords and the data that they protect. In operational use, IronKey Enterprise provides a number of security features that make it virtually impossible for a user to unlock and decrypt a device that they are not authorised to use. The product is FIPS 140-2 Level 3 complian…
Technology Audits - published 26/02/2010 - Andy Kellett, Karthik Balakrishnan, Somak Roy
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Intelledox Enterprise is a rich Web-based e-forms solution for document composition and document-lifecycle management. The highly scalable product offers large-volume template-based design generation for the delivery of business documents. The solution uses Microsoft Word as the basis of its document template development approach. It is equipped with Wizard-driven tools for designing document layouts and managing the supporting infrastructure that provides the ability to deliver data from corporate busin…
Technology Audits - published 01/02/2010 - Andy Kellett, Karthik Balakrishnan, Somak Roy
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The Aveksa Access Governance Platform, which comprises of Aveksa Compliance Manager, Aveksa Role Manager, and Aveksa Access Request and Change Manager, is an access control automation and management solution that focuses on delivering a business as well as a process-centric approach to controlling and managing access to corporate information resources. The product set is tasked with improving the way that organisations deliver and manage user access. It achieves this by bringing together and maintaining …
Technology Audits - published 04/01/2010 - Andy Kellett
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The TippingPoint® 2500N and 5100N Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) platforms are the latest in a well-established lineage of high-performance, High-Availability (HA) IPS appliances. Both products provide automated protection against network infrastructure, enterprise, and Web application attacks, and incorporate the ability to safeguard critical business and customer data. Focus points of enterprise and network protection include the perimeter, Demilitarised Zones (DMZ), data centres, and all available …
Technology Audits - published 08/12/2009 - Andy Kellett
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A significant proportion of today's security solutions are not equipped to deal with the fraud based attack approaches that threaten the security of our core information systems. Managing the needs of a mobile workforce, sharing business and customer information between business partners, collaborative business projects, and the use of Web and Web 2.0 communications, all contribute to an open trading environment where traditional protection regimes are no longer capable of keeping business systems safe.
Technology Evaluation and Comparison Reports - published 23/11/2009 - Alaa Owaineh, Alan Rodger, Andy Kellett, Karthik Balakrishnan
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According to widely reported statistics the UK economy continued to shrink between July and September this year making the recession the longest since records began. And while there is evidence that other European economies are beginning to show the first positive signs of recovery, all countries within the EU continue to suffer from rising levels of unemployment. At the beginning of the downturn it was recognised that businesses would shed staff, and that due to the technology skills that many employees…
OpinionWire Articles - published 20/11/2009 - Andy Kellett
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Virtualisation is positioned as a cost-effective approach to the utilisation of technology. It enables organisations to achieve both operational and business efficiency. Deployed correctly, virtualisation provides the potential to allow organisations to benefit from the consolidation of existing hardware and applications.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 30/10/2009 - Andy Kellett
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If there were just two headlines that were worthy of comment from last week’s RSA Conference Europe, which itself was focused on the protection of the organisation, they both involved the subjects of people and process and the myth of protection.
OpinionWire Articles - published 30/10/2009 - Andy Kellett
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At the company’s EMEA industry analyst conference last week, Symantec presented its main security message as “being the need for business to better protect, manage, and control information”. The volume of information that the business world gathers and holds continues to grow unchecked. Businesses may have become more information centric, with day-to-day operations dependent upon the availability and quality of that information; however, at the same time, the average organisation now looks to have less c…
OpinionWire Articles - published 15/10/2009 - Andy Kellett
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Online commerce presents both the supplier and the consumer with many time, cost, and efficiency advantages, but when times are tough the Web is an easy target for fraud. One of the immediate problems that we all face when transacting business online is that of trust. Is the offer that we are responding to genuine, can we trust the Website concerned, are we prepared to pass on personal, business, or financial details? After all, anyone can copy a logo and put it on a Web page; abuse of Web sites is known…
OpinionWire Articles - published 12/10/2009 - Andy Kellett
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Organisations of all sizes are under mounting pressure to ensure that the applications that they deploy fulfil all required compliance, user safety, and threat protection demands. It is increasingly clear that software testing facilities that have been designed to identify and remediate against security vulnerabilities need to start their work at the earliest stage possible of the technology lifecycle.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 28/09/2009 - Andy Kellett
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Microsoft FAST ESP is a three-dimensional (volume of data, number of users, and freshness of data), highly-scalable, search solution that is targeted at the enterprise community. FAST ESP can be found powering mission-critical search for both internal, employee-facing and external, online consumer-facing applications. The product forms a fundamental part of Microsoft’s platform strategy for the delivery of search solutions that are capable of supporting the information-management and service-delivery nee…
Technology Audits - published 24/09/2009 - Andy Kellett
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Confidentiality, allied to efficient servicedelivery, and strong user and data protection are the integral requirements for establishing and maintaining trust between information users during Business-to-Business (B2B) and Business-to-Customer (B2C) transactions.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 24/08/2009 - Andy Kellett
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Having struggled to meet the earlier March 2009 compliance deadline for CoCo, the UK Government’s Code of Connection standard for Local Authorities that wish to maintain access rights to the Government Connect Secure Extranet (GCSx), the latest deadline of 30 September 2009 is rapidly approaching.
OpinionWire Articles - published 20/08/2009 - Andy Kellett
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Thales CryptoStor Tape is an in-line, high-speed, tape encryption appliance that has been developed to protect data stored on removable tape devices. The solution provides automated, enterprise-class, data encryption and key management facilities that can be utilised to work seamlessly alongside an organisation’s tape backup and recovery systems, without the need to make changes to normal operating procedures. CryptoStor Tape includes automated key management facilities in order to aid ease of recovery w…
Technology Audits - published 11/08/2009 - Andy Kellett
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With more and more emphasis being placed on the importance of secure software, and as organisations strive to reduce the vulnerabilities that continue to be an inherent part of the software development environment; it is no surprise to see the profile of secure code testing tools being elevated within the security industry’s hierarchy. The code testing part of the security sector has for a long time been dominated by a select number of specialist providers using a range of established manual and automate…
OpinionWire Articles - published 10/08/2009 - Andy Kellett
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The Clearswift Web Appliance is an integrated, content-aware, Web filtering and anti-malware solution that is tasked with reducing risk, improving productivity, and maintaining control over Web access. The product set is available on a pre-built hardened appliance, as a software solution, or in a VMware form. Apart from the product’s core filtering capabilities and virus and spyware protection, the solution also shields users from reputation and regulatory risks that can arise from inappropriate data sha…
Technology Audits - published 16/07/2009 - Andy Kellett, Karthik Balakrishnan, Somak Roy
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Last week provided a rare opportunity to hear the collected thoughts on operational security from some of the county’s leading Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs). The Eskenzi CISO roundtable in London on 2 July was the vehicle for a frank exchange of views between security vendors, industry analysts, and CISOs from 14 major organisations. Some of the key subjects discussed were: the effects of current trading climate on IT security; current and future operational priorities; the value, or otherw…
OpinionWire Articles - published 09/07/2009 - Andy Kellett
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Some employees are guilty of attempting to access unauthorised and sometimes inappropriate Web sites, others of recklessly damaging their own wealth through the use of online gambling, or there are those that put themselves and their companies at risk by exposing confidential information on social networking sites. These, along with other work-time dalliances (such as the sharing and downloading of illegal software or music files), are just some of the many insider activities that impact on the informati…
OpinionWire Articles - published 29/06/2009 - Andy Kellett
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Of late, there has been an upsurge of interest in the humble enterprise firewall. From the conversations that I have had recently, this concentration of interest has come from both Butler Group subscribers, with their requests to know more about today’s market-leading firewall solutions, and the wider business community. It has also come in the form of direct contact with a number of security vendors that has resulted in Butler Group analysts writing up Technology Audit (TA) reviews on some of the leading offerings.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 24/06/2009 - Andy Kellett
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The Tufin Security Suite (TSS) is a lifecycle management solution that provides security teams with the tools that are required to maintain control over all key aspects of network security and the policy-based controls that each end-user organisation requires to manage its network infrastructure of firewalls, switches, and routers. TSS comprises two major product components: Tufin SecureTrack, which offers automated policy monitoring and management facilities (primarily for firewalls and network devices …
Technology Audits - published 18/06/2009 - Andy Kellett
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The BorderWare Security Platform is an inclusive e-mail and Web content protection/threat management platform that has been designed as an enterprise-class communications management solution with a target market of small-to-medium sized enterprise organisations, Government, and the Service Provider sector. Developed as an integrated dual-purpose messaging security appliance, the BorderWare Security Platform provides a centrally managed set of protection and threat-management tools that address inbound an…
Technology Audits - published 11/06/2009 - Andy Kellett
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In the latest data breach study from the Verizon Business Risk Team it was reported that around 285 million computer records were compromised during the last year, and of these breaches over 90% were being attributed to organised crime groups.
OpinionWire Articles - published 11/06/2009 - Andy Kellett
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The Corizon Platform provides enterprise mashup facilities that speed up and simplify the build and deployment of composite applications in the work place. In what is still perceived to be a rapidly emerging technology sector Butler Group recognises Corizon as an established player that is able to deliver an already mature product offering. Developed as a business-friendly user tool set, the role of the Corizon Platform is to improve the ease with which composite user applications and interfaces can be t…
Technology Audits - published 10/06/2009 - Andy Kellett
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