The skinny on security wares

It's pretty fat, actually. The upcoming Network World Security Buyer's Guide, which makes its debut next week, contains detailed information on more than 500 products in 23 distinct security product categories (see a preview).

The Security Buyer's Guide covers everything from SSL VPNs and wireless LAN security to identity management products, unified threat management appliances, anti-spam services, and auditing and compliance wares.

We have tapped our experience reporting on and testing these products to assemble extensive, technically detailed surveys in each category that cut to the heart of what makes products stand apart. Then we hounded vendors to submit product details into a centralized database and built a search engine that lets you pinpoint which products offer the features you need most.

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It's pretty fat, actually. The upcoming Network World Security Buyer's Guide, which makes its debut next week, contains detailed information on more than 500 products in 23 distinct security product categories (see a preview).

The Security Buyer's Guide covers everything from SSL VPNs and wireless LAN security to identity management products, unified threat management appliances, anti-spam services, and auditing and compliance wares.

We have tapped our experience reporting on and testing these products to assemble extensive, technically detailed surveys in each category that cut to the heart of what makes products stand apart. Then we hounded vendors to submit product details into a centralized database and built a search engine that lets you pinpoint which products offer the features you need most.

The result is a tool that will help you quickly sift through a large database and build a short list of products that are appropriate for your network (the tool goes live on June 26).

Security is a fast-moving target. By enlisting the help of mBlast, an information management service provider, we can ensure that all Buyer's Guide content is up to date, as vendors can load new product descriptions to the database as their products evolve. Changes will be posted to our site daily. We also are committed to creating additional product guides for new security categories as they emerge.

But we aren't stopping at security. We are currently collecting product information for a Wireless Buyer's Guide and a Storage Buyer's Guide, which are scheduled to go live at the end of next month.

Additionally, in late August, we will make available a Convergence Buyer's Guide as well as a LAN/WAN Management Buyer's Guide. And finally, in September we will launch a Network Infrastructure Buyer's Guide and a Network Applications Buyer's Guide. These guides will provide the most comprehensive directory of enterprise IT vendors in each category, list the most products and offer the most detailed, up-to-date product information available in one searchable database.

Network World has made every effort to contact all vendors in the security market to offer the opportunity to list their product information in the Security Buyer's Guide. If you see that we missed any product, vendor or market, drop me a note.

Read more about security in Network World's Security section.