This post was written by Tammy Giovanni
SkyRecon’s StormShield endpoint protection solution is remarkably flexible when compared to other centrally managed endpoint protection solutions available today. Customization and complexity go hand-in-hand with SkyRecon’s new StormShield endpoint protection solution. The product can be difficult to set up, but once rolling, SkyRecon’s offering is an impressive security tool. There is no mechanism for issue security alerts via SMS or e-mail. Unrivaled endpoint security policy management and enforcement adds top-notch anti-malware, yet installation, configuration, overall GUI, and help/wizard/support shortcomings force to urge caution.
ContentWatch’s CP 300 security appliance offers very good content filtering, traffic shaping and anti-malware capabilities, as well as excellent reporting. It also integrates with directory services such as LDAP to let businesses enforce Internet usage policy by person. The device includes a hardware bypass so that network traffic continues to pass through it even if it fails. It lacks context-sensitive help—clicking the Help button downloads and opens a PDF of the manual. Other than a few quirks, everything is where you’d expect it to be, the GUI is responsive, and reporting is excellent.
Buffalo offers its MiniStation Pro in two capacities 160GB, and 320GB. Buffalo has placed a small ridge around the edges of 160GB MiniStation Pro, with the intention that you can wrap the cable around the drive and clip it onto the other end of the USB connector. The oblong drive has a plastic top made up for some reason of small squares. In use, the Buffalo proved reliable under Windows XP and Vista and we felt comfortable throwing it in a bag and relying on it to securely and reliably transport our data.
eSoft’s Threatwall 250 appliance offers a reasonable specification and with a price tag of £1,532 for the hardware looks comparatively good value. It can be customised to suit as eSoft offers two ThreatPak software upgrades with each costing a very reasonable £665 per year. The 250 can also function as a full mail server that can handle SMTP, POP3, IMAP and webmail. eSoft supports a number of deployment scenarios although if you want everything including intra-LAN traffic to be scanned you should use the transparent or bridged mode.
Fox Technologies (FoxT) Inc. has said that Info Security Products Guide, a Silicon Valley Communications publication and the world’s leading publication on security-related products and technologies, has named Visiant Security’s deployment of centralized security and biometrics authentication at Telecom Italia Mobile Brazil, featuring the FoxT BoKS Access Control for Desktops solution, a winner of the 2008 Best Deployment Scenario Award. The Visiant Security implementation of the FoxT BoKS Access Control for Desktops solution, including integration of the fingerprint reader from Sagem, was selected based on a best-in-class example of real world deployments that are making the most positive impact on security in today’s highly sophisticated and blended attacks environment.
Symantec has announced the launch of Norton Internet Security 2009 and Norton AntiVirus 2009 in India. Norton 2009 was compared to existing security products in the market by independent test labs PassMark Software and AV-Test in a lead up to its global launch. Vishal Dhupar, Managing Director, Symantec India said that Norton 2009 is a significant product in company’s history given the advancements over their existing product lines, in response to both user feedback and the rapidly evolving, complex nature of security threats and risks.
Micro Technologies has launched a security system for two-wheeler segment in the market, Micro Bike Security System (Micro BSS), to secure motorbikes and scooters against theft. ‘Micro Bike Security System’ is a small hardware device developed for the security of all type of two wheeler vehicles. Micro BSS comprises of a compact hardware unit which is fitted on to the bike, along with a small receiver unit. In the event of movement or tampering of the bike, the owner is immediately alerted through an alarm.
Symantec Corporation has indicated that its next-generation security products for consumers would install fast, run fast, and download fast. Tom Powledge, vice president of product management for the consumer products division of Symantec said the primary complaints Symantec hears from consumers boil down to security products being confusing, eating up a lot of storage space, and slowing down the PC. “Security technology does not have to be big, fat, and slow,” he said as he gave reporters a sneak preview of the features that will be built into Norton products, Symantec’s brand of consumer security software. “We are setting on a mission to provide zero-impact on the performance of your computers.”
CA Inc. has launched an internally developed CA security product, CA Security Compliance Manager. The CA Security Compliance Manager delivers capabilities that help the company’s customers address IT security and comply with legal, corporate and government regulations. The CA Security Compliance Manager product focuses on helping organizations automate processes for answering security questions such as “Who has access to what?” “Who can do what?” and “Who approved what?” to help detect security policy or compliance violations and then initiate any necessary remediation.
DNF Security has unveiled its Falcon Hybrid EQ series of high-performance, hybrid surveillance systems that are compatible with both leading IP and analog cameras, providing a smooth transition to IP network surveillance. With five models now available in capacities ranging from 4TB to 48TB, the Falcon Hybrid systems offer superior scalability from four cameras to thousands of cameras — all managed by a single system. These open-platform systems support analog, IP, megapixel and high-definition cameras under a common user interface, without the need for ripping out and replacing existing analog systems.