Risk Management Reviews
Sep 2, 2008
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NetIQ's Secure Configuration Manager (SCM) is a combination of client server and web-based components to help organisations manage configurations of workstations and servers.
Aug 12, 2008
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BigFix Enterprise Suite (BES) 7 is a series of client server and web-based components designed to assist with workstation/server configuration and vulnerability management.
Aug 1, 2008
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ManageEngine DeviceExpert 5.1 is a web-based configuration and change management solution for network devices.
Jul 14, 2008
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Like the sky box in a sports stadium, Skybox SRM offers an overall view of everything.
Sep 19, 2007
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As security threats to networks become ever more sophisticated, there is a drive towards a more proactive stance and a demand for solutions that can identify unknown as well as known threats.
May 8, 2007
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DirectPointe provided a hosted security offering which included managed firewall and managed intrusion prevention. The offering uses a SonicWall-based firewall that performs automatic blocking of network attacks.
Apr 17, 2007
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Solutionary provides a complete outsourced offering. It includes hosting, managed firewall and managed intrusion prevention.
Apr 17, 2007
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The SLA for the offering included three-hour response for low-level threats, one-hour for medium-level threats, and 15 minutes for high-level threats. SecureWorks responded inside of 10 minutes to all threat categories.
Apr 17, 2007
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The Service Level Agreement (SLA) for the Threat Manager offering ensured response within 30 minutes of the detection and escalation of security incidents.
Apr 10, 2007
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Active Directory (AD) is Microsoft's take on LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use in Windows environments. It allows network administrators to assign global, enterprise-wide policies, deploy programs to many computers and apply critical updates to an entire organisation.
Feb 5, 2007
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The ISS Proventia Network Enterprise Scanner is part of a larger security management system and, as such, shows its best performance as part of that suite. We tested the product outside of the Proventia suite and we do not recommend this approach. The network scanner requires, at minimum, MS SQLServer and ISS Site Protector to support it. If all you need is a vulnerability scanner, this is not your best bet.
Dec 11, 2006
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Within any sizeable network, the issues around maintaining known configurations from a security perspective can become problematic. Similarly, maintaining a compliant infrastructure, together with its attendant processes, can represent quite a challenge. Add to this the requirements for change control, access control and other factors, and one can readily appreciate that this challenge can become significant in terms of both resource and cost.
Dec 11, 2006
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We now find ourselves in a world of regulatory compliance. It didn't use to be that way, but it is a fact of life we cannot ignore. In a sense, it is good for us who administer and manage IT systems as it forces us to adopt responsible practices, especially around access control.
Oct 1, 2006
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There are many approaches one could take to securing the network, with equally many tools available for each aspect of security. However, if undertaken on a blow-by-blow basis, one can unwittingly construct quite a complex arrangement of tools and service, which, in turn, brings complexity to the administration and support of the task itself.
Oct 1, 2006
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There are many approaches to vulnerability scanning and intrusion detection, depending upon the scale of your enterprise and the lengths to which you wish to go. Security Center Lite offers a relatively low-cost introduction to such tasks for infrastructures with up to 100 network nodes. For larger organisations, Security Center Pro can support an unlimited number of network nodes.
Oct 1, 2006
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Centrify is a fairly young company, founded in 2004, but the problem its products seek to address goes back further than this. It is the perennial issue of providing an integrated and centralised approach to access control across disparate platforms, such as Windows, Unix, Linux and Mac. The issue is heightened by regulatory compliance obligations and associated audit requirements. Organisations with a large, mixed infrastructure can find themselves with a heavy workload in order to meet requirements in this context.
Oct 1, 2006
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The Global Command Center (GCC) from Secure Computing is a serious tool that will appeal to those with a large or complex network to administer and who seek a fine level of configuration and control.
Oct 1, 2006
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AirMagnet is unusual in that it specialises in protecting wireless LANs, a very pertinent capability given the proliferation of wireless devices in the enterprise and the security headaches this can bring. The company's approach is also quite novel in that specialist hardware-based sensors are deployed and networked back to a software-based management server.
Jun 1, 2006
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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 designed to meet the requirements of firms of all sizes
– from small home office users to large corporate enterprises.
May 12, 2006
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This suite of security risk management applications contains components that analyze networks for vulnerabilities, identify risks, spot anomalous activity and report on it, raise alerts and track mitigation, then map the whole lot back to a set of business processes and risk models.