Clavister’s profile in the UK security appliance market is relatively low key but it aims to improve its image with the ever-increasing family of Security Gateway products. The SG4300 targets enterprises, data centres and VPN hosting services. A key feature is Clavister’s CorePlus OS that doesn’t rely on any open ...

ForeScout Technologies’ CounterACT NAC stands out. It aims to avoid most of the gripes with NAC, seen to be expensive and overly complex.

WatchGuard’s SSL 100 stands out: not only is it an affordable appliance-based solution for SMBs, but it also supports more end-user authentication methods than most enterprise-level products.

Avenda’s eTIPS appliance provides a solid platform for network access control. With it, system administrators can set policies for wired, wireless and VPN network access and make sure a system meets health requirements before being allowed to join the network.

Black Box Veri-NAC provides agentless detection, alerting and blocking of attacks against a variety of network devices, including managed switches, VoIP phone ports and insecure wireless routers.