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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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Safend Data Protection Suite (DPS) from Safend is a well-integrated portfolio of endpoint security products designed to protect organisations’ confidential information from loss or theft by monitoring, detecting, and restricting data transfers to or from Windows-based computers. All digital files are prone to loss or theft as a result of either benign or malignant behaviour, but facilities within successive Microsoft operating systems lack granularity and operational flexibility, leading organisations to…
Technology Audits - published 01/02/2010 - Alan Rodger, Richard Edwards
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SailPoint IdentityIQ is a risk-based identity-governance solution for managing user access to critical business systems and the data that they contain. Its distinctive risk-based approach addresses regulatory compliance issues and streamlines role and access management processes. Using a single-repository approach, IdentityIQ consolidates all identity and access data into a single location, and also delivers extensive reporting services that are tailored to meet the needs of business users. Associated ca…
Technology Audits - published 21/01/2010 - Somak Roy
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EventTracker, from Prism Microsystems, is a software solution that combines log, change, and event management in a single product that provides log collection, event analysis, some remediation, archival, and reporting covering server and network elements, as well as some desktop activity monitoring. Its data correlation engine enables real-time monitoring and rule-based alerting of events to IT administrators and users. Ovum is particularly impressed with the reporting features, which include pre-built, …
Technology Audits - published 21/01/2010 - Alan Rodger, 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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IBM Data Security Services (DSS) utilises technologies from Fidelis Security Systems (for network Data Loss Prevention or DLP) and Verdasys (for endpoint DLP), in conjunction with advisory, implementation, and ongoing management services to deliver an integrated network and endpoint data loss prevention solution. Fidelis XPS enables monitoring of all network ports and internal traffic for sensitive data, and the solution’s policy engine allows organisations to implement granular policies governing the tr…
Technology Audits - published 14/12/2009 - Alan Rodger
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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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According to a survey organised by Credant Technologies amongst licensed London taxi drivers, passengers leave around 10,000 mobile phones a month in the back of taxis (which equates to one every two months per taxi), and more than 1,000 other handheld devices, including iPods, laptops and memory sticks. Statistically, a London taxi cab is good place to lose your mobile device, as 80% of cabbies managed to reunite passengers with their lost property; however, with the party season fast approaching, and m…
OpinionWire Articles - published 08/12/2009 - Richard Edwards
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e-DMZ Security’s Total Privileged Access Management (TPAM) Suite combines four privileged access management solutions on a single platform, each addressing an aspect of the issues around privileged access management using shared credentials. Many infrastructure devices, and some applications, have built-in, inflexible account names and passwords to support in-depth management tasks, but when these cannot be managed satisfactorily from the perspectives of compliance and accountability organisations rightl…
Technology Audits - published 01/12/2009 - Alan Rodger, Karthik Balakrishnan, Somak Roy
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The WatchGuard appliance-based Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions combine a host of gateway security components including a stateful firewall, gateway anti-virus, anti-spyware, SSL VPN, Web filtering, and anti-spam solutions. Small to Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) often find traditional security architecture comprising a portfolio of point solutions too resource-intensive, but UTM solutions offer the benefit of unified management. Multiple appliances and classes of appliances are managed through…
Technology Audits - published 01/12/2009 - Karthik Balakrishnan, Maxine Holt, Somak Roy
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Trusteer’s Rapport service is a simple, strong, flexible, and efficient way of securing users’ online transactions against malware. Consumers download a plug-in from the Web site of their bank or e-commerce provider, which enforces data protection and transaction integrity checks throughout the user’s session. Organisations and society as a whole have suffered due to security threats hampering the attainment of the benefits of online services. Rapport provides all-round protection at the point of greates…
Technology Audits - published 24/11/2009 - Alan Rodger, Karthik Balakrishnan, Somak Roy
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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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It is time to plug up the security holes. Tiny computing and storage devices have revolutionised the way people carry information as they can stow the equivalent of millions of pages of data.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 30/10/2009 - John Jefferies
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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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Endpoint security is a critical capability within the array of tools that organisations need in order to ensure the protection of their information and IT assets. It focuses on implementing security within user devices, and therefore has to incorporate wide-ranging features relating to the different device types that are in use, as well as to counter the numerous types of threat that arise in diverse user device environments.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 30/10/2009 - Alan Rodger
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Guardian Web Filter from SmoothWall is an intelligent Web content filtering solution with anti-spyware, anti-virus, and browser-exploit prevention capabilities, among many others. Aimed at controlling access to inappropriate Web content, Guardian blocks potentially dangerous and productivity-depleting Web sites and resources via a set of granular and flexible policies that can be quickly and easily maintained and deployed. It is offered as a pre-built, hardened appliance; as a self-install software solut…
Technology Audits - published 16/10/2009 - Karthik Balakrishnan, Richard Edwards, Somak Roy
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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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According to figures released in June 2009 by the Office for National Statistics the redundancies level for the three months to April 2009 was 302,000, up 36,000 over the quarter and up 191,000 over the year.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 28/09/2009 - Mark Fullbrook
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I’ve just spent a pleasant hour using Google Trends and Google Insights, to look at who’s doing searches on various IT related terms, and thought I would share my findings with you.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 28/09/2009 - Terry White
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Picture the scene: it is 17:00hrs on a weekday and you have been alerted that your firewall has crashed. Thankfully, you have a spare on-site and you manage to have that up and running quickly in factory default setting.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 28/09/2009 - Rory Nolan
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At the beginning of September this year, CAST Software announced the release of numerous enhancements to its CAST Application Intelligence Platform (AIP). A large proportion of these enhancements focus on application security, continuing the company’s well-established progress in addressing the two major causes of risk that arise from application development – quality, and security problems.
OpinionWire Articles - published 18/09/2009 - Alan Rodger
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