This month we look at two aspects of verification and validation: policy management and vulnerability assessment.

This month, Technology Editor Peter Stephenson and the crew at SC Labs looked at remote access and access control.

Email is the grease that makes today's business run smoothly, says Peter Stephenson.

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.