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E-DMZ PAR shoots to manage privileged accounts en masse
Apr. 28, 2008
The e-DMZ Password Auto Repository (PAR) is delivered as a hardware appliance with all the services necessary for it to act as a privileged password manager. All privileged passwords are issued based on administratively ...

Symark makes its own mark in the privileged access market
Apr. 28, 2008
Symark's PowerKeeper is a password safe that can take on increasing gradients of password control -- from general user account access to servers right up through to root access to administrative accounts on business ...

Keep out: This means you, IT admin
Apr. 28, 2008
Privileged IT staffers literally holds the keys to the castle. Access to those keys that open the doors to critical operating system and application resources must be carefully managed and legally audited. Enter the ...

Quest homes in on Unix password management
Apr. 28, 2008
Overall, QPM requires moderate Unix administrative skills to both install and use. It doesn't, of course, cover Windows, but does cover Solaris and HP-UX (not tested). It's very highly configurable, and puts reasonably ...

SonicWall smashes UTM gigabit speed barrier
Apr. 07, 2008
Last month, SonicWall rolled out its next-generation UTM firewall appliance geared straight for the enterprise. In our exclusive test of the Network Security Appliance E7500, results show that SonicWall has, indeed, ...

10 Gig switch review dives deep on multicast performance
Mar. 24, 2008
Once upon a time, layer-2 unicast performance tests would have produced by far the most important results, but that's changed. Measuring unicast throughput on all ports, once considered the acid test for access switches ...

Best practices: Review shows switches complying for secure management
Mar. 24, 2008
In assessing switch management and security, we sought to answer three questions: Did devices follow current best practices by default? Could users configure switches to follow these best practices? And could switches ...

Review of switch usability centers on CLI comfort zone
Mar. 24, 2008
Any assessment of switch usability is necessarily subjective. While there are some objective measures that can be applied (for example, it might take 17 steps to enable SSH on one switch, and only five on another), ...

Features abound in latest and greatest access switch models
Mar. 24, 2008
While this test's key takeaway may be the big differences in new features, the good news is that, with a very few exceptions, all switches support the same basic L2/L3 functions

NAC support in switches varies wildly
Mar. 24, 2008
Many switches today support 802.1X authentication, a basic building block in NAC. The key question is what kind of access authenticated users can expect. In the six-test scenarios we developed for this project, we ...

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