Audit

LC5

Company: @stake
Pricing: $650 for Professional version, $850 for Administrator version

This product being the latest version of L0phtcrack is euphemistically called a password auditing and recovery tool. It is known to others as a fantastic password hash cracker for Windows. And while the new name makes it sound more like a seminal Detroit rock band of the late 60's, the ...

 

Intuit Track-It! (Auditing tools group test)

Company: Intuit IT Solutions
Pricing: Single user: $1,300 (inc. 25 PC audits); Standard (inc. five user licenses and 100 PC audits): $2,600; Enterprise (as above, plus one year’s priority support): $10,800

Intuit Track-It! is a comprehensive suite of integrated modules which provide some interesting and useful functionality. The product is available in three flavours of Single User, Standard (facilitating multiple users) and Enterprise, and is nicely presented throughout with good documentation.

 

Pervasive AuditMaster

Company: Pervasive Software
Pricing: $496 for six users

Pervasive's SQL database is designed to be embedded in applications designed for small to medium businesses. AuditMaster has been created to ensure that changes to the database are efficiently and accurately logged. The audit trail produced not only allows the database manager to keep track of routine changes, but also ...

 

LANsurveyor (Group Test: Auditing tools)

Company: Neon Software Inc.
Pricing: $495

LANsurveyor 9 is a subtly different program from others tested here. At its heart is a graphical mapping capability that allows you to create "maps" of your network to various levels of detail. These maps might be used solely within the program, or be exported in a variety of formats, ...

 

KeyServer K2 (Audit group test)

Company: Sassafras Software, Inc.
Pricing: from $15 per desktop

K2 builds upon KeyServer's success as a desktop management application to include auditing, in effect integrating software auditing and metering into one package. The client end can run on Windows, Macs and thin-clients, while the server can be hosted from any Windows-based PC as well as Macs, Novell Netware and ...

 

CyberAngel

Company: CyberAngel Security Systems
Pricing: $59.95

CyberAngel is actually one of several competing packages on the market in the U.S. and Canada that allows a central monitoring station to detect when an unauthorized access to a PC or notebook has taken place, and alerts the owner accordingly.

 

PC-Duo (Group Test: Auditing tools)

Company: Vector Networks
Pricing: $290 for 10 nodes

We evaluated a previous version of PC-Duo and were generally impressed with its intuitive interface and no-nonsense functions. We are pleased to report that the previous strengths – an attractive and intuitive interface – remain. The functionality has also been well considered and will be truly useful in a broad ...

 

Ideal Administration

Company: Pointdev
Pricing: €380 per licence ($400)

This application offers centralised control and administration for Windows domain. It does this by putting all the essential tools needed to manage domains, computers, users and groups in one place.

 

PC-Duo Enterprise (Auditing tools group test)

Company: Vector Networks Inc.
Pricing: from $290 for ten nodes

PC-Duo Enterprise is a well presented application that effectively steers users through all major functions via well-considered dialogs. This "learn-as-you-go" approach will suit the busy network administrator with limited previous experience.

 

Blade Firewall Informer (Firewall group test)

Company: Blade Software
Pricing: from $1,999

Blade has made quite a name for itself over the last year or so with the development of its Blade IDS Informer application, which monitors the performance of your intrusion detection system and ensures that it is running to the best of its abilities. The company has now extended this ...