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Review: HP Mercury SiteScope
05/14/07
SiteScope is a Java tool that runs as a background process on a computer with a connection to the central network. It monitors network and server activity, sending alerts and generating summary reports.

Review: Netcordia NetMRI network appliance
05/14/07
NetMRI's forté lies in problem analysis. Each NetMRI appliance, which typically connects to a central pathway on the network and can monitor as many as 2,000 devices, contains a large body of expert system knowledge developed by Netcordia. The company ...

Review: Network General NetVigil Enterprise
05/14/07
NetVigil is especially good at relating business functions to network components, applications and servers.

Review: Midtier management tools register high marks
05/14/07
Midtier management tools make the grade.

Review: Netmon Professional Edition
05/14/07
The Netmon appliance went to work quickly to establish a baseline of network activity and begin identifying network problems.

Review: Argent Software Extended Technologies
05/14/07
Extended Technologies excelled in virtually every area of our testing, from discovery to the graphical display of the network, from monitoring to alerting and from corrective actions to reports.

Review: How we tested network-management devices
05/14/07
We evaluated each product's ability to discover, manage, administer, monitor, report on, diagnose, troubleshoot, reset, reconfigure and secure our network devices, applications, servers and clients. Virtually all our testing took place across WAN links (

Review: HP OpenView
05/14/07
Of the myriad of OpenView modules offered by HP, Network Node Manager is the key monitoring and managing component.

Review: Microsoft rolls out client-based spyware tool
05/05/07
Microsoft has rolled out a new subscription-based, Windows-centric, antimalware tool called Forefront Client Security (FCS). The company touts FCS as significant upgrade from its freely available Windows Defender program mainly due to an accompanying ...

Review: How we did it
05/04/07
We collected a suite of 100 malware samples, including adware, trojans and rootkits, which we moved to an isolated, quarantined network.

Review: AirMagnet Laptop
04/23/07
Like OptiView III and OmniPeek, AirMagnet Laptop came with a Cognio Spectrum Analyzer card. AirMagnet Laptop uses an engine that is accessible by AirMagnet sensors, which can be other notebooks running licensed AirMagnet sensor applications or ...

Review: WLAN analyzers: Fluke OptiView III
04/23/07
The Fluke system is based on a portable PC running Windows XP with Service Pack 2. The device has a touchscreen, and as a base platform runs wireline, Gigabit Ethernet-speed protocol and SNMP analysis.

Review: How we tested WLAN analyzers
04/23/07
Our tests used a base platform of a HP ZV-5000 notebook (AMD Athlon 64 with 2GB dynamic RAM, 100GB internal drive and internal Broadcom Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g chipset) running a freshly updated version of Windows XP SP2.

Review: WildPackets' OmniPeek For Windows 4.1
04/23/07
WildPackets markets several versions of OmniPeek with increasing feature sets, up to the OmniPeek Enterprise version with Enhanced Voice Option. We were sent the OmniPeek Workgroup Pro version to test. OmniPeek runs on engines that can be situated in ...

Review: Network General Sniffer Portable 4.90
04/23/07
Network General's Sniffer Portable was a bit difficult to install, but when we conquered the demons, we found that there have been numerous changes to the product.

Review: WLAN analyzers come of age
04/23/07
In 2004 we tested several wireless LAN protocol analyzers and found two distinct characteristics: Those dedicated and built from the ground up for WLANs, and those that were modest add-ons to what were then labeled classic protocol analyzer products. ...

NAC management can be a headache
04/19/07
NAC deployments present special problems in management because they cross boundaries between groups responsible for security, network configuration, and desktop configuration. Any NAC management platform must have the ability to integrate into all ...

Cisco, TCG deliver on basic end point security
04/19/07
End-point security assessment can be the killer component that makes NAC a worthwhile investment. Testing end-point security assessment required the most lab time and effort, but it also proved to be the NAC realm least fraught with problems.

What can NAC do for you now?
04/19/07
With a virtual lock on the Ethernet switching market, any enterprise IT manager has to consider Cisco’s product line as at least one NAC options.

NAC all-in-one test on the horizon
04/19/07
We’ve provided comprehensive information on ways the available NAC architectures have been outfitted by a host of vendors to provide authorization tactics, end point security measures, enforcement points and management wares that tie all the necessary ...

Does a good SSL VPN provide good NAC?
04/19/07
When we developed our evaluation criteria for NAC, the similarities with the evaluation criteria for SSL VPN were very strong.

Why Vista is missing from NAC landscape
04/19/07
Microsoft’s Vista operating system has been shipping since January, with beta code available for over a year before that. Yet, neither of the two NAC frameworks tested have any inherit support for Microsoft’s newest operating system. What gives?

How we did it
04/19/07
Building a large NAC deployment meant building a small enterprise network from scratch. Before any equipment hit the loading dock, though, we designed a test methodology and wrote a requirements document for NAC solutions which would prove to set the ...

NAC authentication with XP clients is a snap
04/19/07
Since it’s the first step in the NAC process, we began our testing with authentication: how will the end user identify themselves to the network?

NAC enforcement tools fall short
04/19/07
The “C” in NAC stands for Control: defining access to network resources based on the valid authentication and end-point security posture of the user. Up until this point in our testing, CNAC and TCG/TNC were friendly bedfellows, offering very similar ...

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Collaboration, E-mail, Instant messaging, Multimedia.

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Security
Firewalls, Intrusion prevention/detection, Patch mgmt., VoIP, VPNs

Storage

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