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2007 Industry Innovators

Industry innovators 2007: Identica Vascular Biometrics

Peter Stephenson December 01, 2007

The VP-II S vascular hand scanner provided by Identica fits perfectly into our look forward for the year. This device takes biometrics to a whole new level.

Industry innovators 2007: Bradford Networks

Peter Stephenson December 01, 2007

If you are trying to log into a network protected by Bradford Networks' NAC Director, you'll have an agent on your computer or you won't login. If you have an agent, you'll be sent exactly where policy allows you to go and nowhere else.

Industry innovators 2007: Passlogix v-Go SSO

Peter Stephenson December 01, 2007

Like all of our selections for this issue, Passlogix told us that they were innovators because they look at problems in new ways. What is more important is not that they look at problems in new ways, but how they do it. The "how" in the case of Passlogix is the real differentiator.

Industry innovators 2007: Fischer Identity Suite

Peter Stephenson December 01, 2007

When the phrase identity management comes up it is almost enough to make any administrator cringe. Between managing users, making sure they are in the right groups and have the right permissions, keeping the system up to date, and the many other headaches that come along with managing identity, most administrators would rather do pretty much anything else.

Industry innovators 2007: Entrust Identity Guard

Peter Stephenson December 01, 2007

Every company — especially the ones we have selected this month — couples vision with philosophy. The simple philosophy that Entrust embraces is: if multifactor authentication is to be the wave of the future, it must be affordable and manageable without losing its effectiveness.

Industry innovators 2007: Mu Security Mu 4000

Peter Stephenson December 01, 2007

There may — will, according to Mu Security — come a time when signature-based vulnerability assessment by itself is no longer a viable testing option.

Industry innovators 2007: Core Security Impact

Peter Stephenson December 01, 2007

Iconsider the term "ethical hacking" an oxymoron, but it has become a part of the information assurance lexicon whether I agree or not. However, the practical fact is that true penetration testing is not hacking in any form whatever.

Industry innovators 2007: RazorThreat TAC

Peter Stephenson December 01, 2007

Every now and then we see, as Monty Python used to say "...something completely different." The RazorThreat Threat Analysis Console is just such a product. The TAC, as RazorThreat refers to its product, analyzes inter-domain communications and determines through policy whether the communication is allowed or may be indicative of an attack.

Industry innovators 2007: LogLogic

Peter Stephenson December 01, 2007

SIM/SEM — security information management or security event management — often is characterized as being log correlation and analysis. LogLogic entered the market as an early player and focused on log management. That is still, five years later, where the company puts its efforts.

Industry innovators 2007: WetStone Technologies

Peter Stephenson December 01, 2007

Occasionally one gets to see a set of products whose only connection is that they take really hard problems in a particular application space and address them in remarkably innovative ways. These are the solutions to hard problems that everyone says you can't do, but you have to do it anyway.

Industry innovators 2007: eSoft Instagate

Peter Stephenson December 01, 2007

The unified threat management (UTM) market is a fast growing segment of the security market and vendors are trying to cram more and more security into a single device. The major problem here is that most vendors take a best of breed approach and bring in third-party technology. This is where eSoft separates itself from the bunch.

Industry innovators 2007: NitroSecurity IPS

Peter Stephenson December 01, 2007

It's just an intrusion prevention system (IPS), right? Well, not exactly. NitroSecurity is another of those companies that we've been watching for a long time. Initially, its claim to fame was a blazingly fast backend database. It provided that to developers of some very demanding applications, including IDS/IPS apps. The database platform shines when there are huge amounts of data to process without losing any.

Industry innovators 2007: AirWave

Peter Stephenson December 01, 2007

Wireless is not the future. It is now. Organizations are demanding wireless connectivity and IT departments are struggling to deploy it, while security managers are pushing back hard until security concerns for this pervasive technology can be addressed. The issues are management and security.

Industry innovators 2007: GTB Inspector

Peter Stephenson December 01, 2007

We have characterized GTB Inspector as "email security," but, really, that requires a bit of rethinking about what we mean by the term. There are, as everyone knows, a lot of aspects to email security and Inspector addresses one of the most important: data leak prevention.

Industry innovators 2007: PGP Encryption

Peter Stephenson December 01, 2007

In discussing innovation with people from PGP, we made a very interesting discovery. What we classically think of as PGP encryption actually is only a small part of the view that the company has of the product line and the mission of the company.

Industry innovators 2007: Mi5 Networks Webgate

December 01, 2007

A major challenge in today's large networks is the build-up of unseen malware, spyware and botnets. The Mi5 Networks Webgate is a tool that helps bring these problems to the surface and remediates them without disruption of network traffic flow.

Industry innovators 2007: eSoft Threatwall

Peter Stephenson December 01, 2007

As we pointed out earlier in this month's issue, eSoft has the UTM for everyone. However, in some cases, a UTM is not what is needed. In some cases the customer's current environment already has a firewall and VPN, but is without a way to manage content and usage policies. This is where the ThreatWall appliance comes in.

Industry innovators 2007: BigFix

December 01, 2007

Years ago, when BigFix was a new entry in the market, it was thought of as a patch management product. Over time the system has evolved into a suite of products that BigFix characterizes as enabling "organizations to see, change and enforce the IT policies of computing devices in real-time at global scale."

Industry innovators 2007: Archer Technologies

Peter Stephenson December 01, 2007

It's not enterprise security management anymore. According to visionaries from Archer Technologies, the old notion of enterprise security management has given way to risk and compliance management. For years IT risk managers were treated almost as second-class citizens because IT risk was viewed as a very small part of the overall risk picture.

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