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Winner: Teros' Secure Application Gateway 100SSL
We picked the Teros Secure Application Gateway 100SSL as a winner because it's got both security and style.
When we tested this product last spring, Network World Lab Alliance member Thomas Powell noted this Web application firewall appliance offers a "a nice blend of positive and negative firewall model features that should be capable of protecting all but the most sensitive applications." Specifically, we found the Teros 100 capable of detecting and blocking all the common Web site attacks including forceful browsing, SQL injection, form-field tampering, cookie tampering and cross-site scripting.
This product firmly embraces the notion of federated management roles. The Teros management tools allow for a clear division between tasks that a device administrator needs to handle and tasks over which an application administrator must have purview. "This approach to management makes Teros ideally suited for multisite, hosted environments or a large-scale corporation with multiple sites and owners," Powell said.
On top of its solid security infrastructure, the Teros 100 sports a highly polished Web-based interface and offers a number of features that address content integrity and performance.
Another particularly positive aspect is that the Teros box addresses the unthinkable - a site or application breach. A variety of features help mitigate the fallout from potential intrusions or site errors. To thwart site defacement, the device can checksum static pages and prevent delivery if they've been modified.
The Teros device also lets you filter pages for specific words and offers some built-in filters to protect against illicitly placed information. The device can detect for common data formats such as credit card or Social Security numbers.
The Teros 100 has built-in acceleration features, including HTTP encoding using the gzip open source data compression tool, SSL acceleration and connection offloading. Given that application security checks will add overhead to site response times, these efforts to mitigate the issue are nice to see.
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Copyright 2008 Network World Inc.
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