Symantec Enterprise Security Manager (Policy Management group test)

Company: Symantec Corp.
Pricing: $1,995 (manager), $995 (server agent), $95 (workstation)

The basis of any policy management tool is the ability to manage its users and to recognize potential problem areas. Some do this without agents and others prefer to manage policy enforcement with agents residing on both workstations and servers. This is the case for Symantec Enterprise Security Manager, which ...

 

AVG Anti-Virus (Group Test: AV management)

Company: Grisoft
Pricing: $5,500 for 500 users; $10,000 for 1,000 users

Grisoft's antivirus product for networks offers centralized management that can install, monitor and administer the antivirus software on each computer on the network.

 

LC5

Company: @stake
Pricing: $650 for Professional version, $850 for Administrator version

This product being the latest version of L0phtcrack is euphemistically called a password auditing and recovery tool. It is known to others as a fantastic password hash cracker for Windows. And while the new name makes it sound more like a seminal Detroit rock band of the late 60's, the ...

 

Recovery Manager

Company: Winternals
Pricing: $29 per workstation; $299 per server; $69 per concurrent administrative user.
Creating a restore point for machines running Windows has be a feature since Windows ME. It has been developed with the advent of Windows 2000 and XP. Basically it creates a "snapshot" of the system and then uses that image to roll back to in case anything should go wrong. ...
 

Win Tasks 4 Professional (Data Forensics group test)

Company: LIUtilities
Pricing: $39.95

Unlike the data acquisition tools here, WinTasks is intended to give administrators a view of the running state of a system, helping to identify and track malicious activity.

 

Intuit Track-It! (Auditing tools group test)

Company: Intuit IT Solutions
Pricing: Single user: $1,300 (inc. 25 PC audits); Standard (inc. five user licenses and 100 PC audits): $2,600; Enterprise (as above, plus one year’s priority support): $10,800

Intuit Track-It! is a comprehensive suite of integrated modules which provide some interesting and useful functionality. The product is available in three flavours of Single User, Standard (facilitating multiple users) and Enterprise, and is nicely presented throughout with good documentation.

 

PC PhoneHome (Mobile Security group test)

Company: Brigadoon
Pricing: $29.99 one time fee

PC PhoneHome differs from the other tracking solutions in that it does not require an annual subscription and is totally self sufficient, reporting not to a tracking center but to the laptop owner. This reduces the cost and ensures a user can pass information onto the law enforcement officer as ...

 

Websense Enterprise (Group Test: Policy management)

Company: Websense
Pricing: $80 per user for 100 users

This suite of programs is designed to control access to the internet and keep the enemy at bay. It integrates with many third-party defense applications to offer a war room in a browser from which the state of the defenses can be examined, as well as dictating how the various ...

 

Wiebetech Forensic ComboDock (Forensic tools group test)

Company: WiebeTech LLC
Pricing: $399.95 (without Serial ATA); $529.95 (with optional Serial ATA adapter)

The ComboDock is the sort of device that no forensic investigator can afford to be without if they intend to produce evidence that will be acceptable in legal proceedings.

 

BitZipper

Company: Bitberry Software
Pricing: $24.95
It would seem that compression and encryption are fast becoming the best of friends. BitZipper is the latest in a line of compression applications trying to eat away at WinZip's dominance by adding high-grade encryption into the deal.

The software prides itself on its ability to deal with more ...

 
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