Jon Tullett

Everyone above a certain age remembers Laplink. Back before PCs were easily networked, you copied files from A to B by connecting serial or parallel cables ... Physical keyloggers top the list of security nightmares for most in the profession. While full-blown remote access trojans are worse, they are also fairly ... This was the only software being tested. WinRoute is intended to be installed on Windows systems, and there must be doubts about the product’s viability as ... The Firebox range is always easy to pick out of a group, with its trademark red casing. The unit ships with a full complement of hardware, some enabled ... The ZyWALL 35 is a mid-range model with four LAN and two WAN ports, and a throughput of 70Mbps. We were pleased to see that this unit’s web GUI was one of the few being tested that defaults to a secure HTTPS connection. There is also a fully featured ... SonicWALL’s PRO line of UTM appliances offers a good collection of features over and beyond a basic firewall, although this core feature is well provided. ... The ASG 425 is at the top end of Astaro’s 1U appliance range, with several smaller versions and two larger options available. The unit offers eight ports, ... D-Link’s DFL-2500 offers more network control than we expected, and does it at a good price for its class. The Total Stream Protection (TSP) line was part of the package when Secure Computing bought CyberGuard. This model is a beefy 3U box, supporting up to 38 ... NETASQ sent us a very attractive 1U box which boasted a very impressive collection of features. While most of these did work as advertised, it was let down ... Despite the name, this is not similar to the endpoint products in this month’s endpoint security group test, hence its inclusion here on its own. Network Box offers hosted security services based on its own custom appliances installed locally on end users’ networks. The company has a range of services ... Configuresoft’s Enterprise Configuration Manager (ECM) is a management application for configuration, patching, security, audit and compliance – and all ... This suite of security risk management applications contains components that analyze networks for vulnerabilities, identify risks, spot anomalous activity ... Avanton’s ReadyARM is an IDS appliance aimed at SMEs. It is based on open-source IDS and vulnerability-scanning software and has custom wrappers to hold it ... BlackSpider’s services have performed well in our previous, more filtering-oriented tests. The company is focused on mail and web filtering, and unlike ... Mimecast offers its technologies as an appliance and a managed service for smaller enterprises, run from three data centers. The service is almost wholly ... SoftScan services clients around the world, but while its support hours are European, 24x7 telephone support is available for a fee. Clearswift is well-known for its MIMEsweeper filtering software, but entered two new markets in 2005. First, it introduced an appliance format of the ...