The forensics market has matured sufficiently to allow us to break the genre into two groups: media forensics and network forensics.

This month we are addressing application vulnerabilities and web-based threats.

We are approaching a world where the demarcation between our enterprises and the public internet is becoming fuzzier and fuzzier.

This month our reviews section is unplugged. We look at security for portable devices, as well as security for wireless systems.

Welcome to the first Group Test reviews of 2008. Appropriately, we start this year with two important groups: identity management and multifactor authentication products

This is a very special issue to me and the team at SC Labs because it is based on a year of seeing the good and the not so good. We actually saw almost no bad products, so it was a pretty good year overall. It is special for you because it helps answer the question, "If we are going to buy security tools in the next 12 to 18 months, what should we be looking at?"

On the hunt for more innovative solutions to holistically safeguard organizations' growing networks, Peter Stephenson pinpoints the product categories and solutions you might consider next year.

Of the classifications we looked at, access control is among the most multidimensional. We defined access control fairly broadly as including identification, authentication and authorization. Network access control — NAC — is a very hot topic at the moment.

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.

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.