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IT Vendor Directory

A collection of categorized IT vendors intended to give you a broad view of the market and easily allow you to find and compare relevant vendors for your needs.

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Gartner released their 2010 Magic Quadrant for Enteprise Firewalls this week. You can get a copy of the full report from Palo Alto Networks by filling out the form here.

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(Link: Fortinet) started out about 10 years ago as a small company making this new-fangled thing dubbed later by IDC a UTM device. They have been the market leader in the UTM market for a while now and offer appliances for every size network. They offer a variety of solutions beyond firewalls including endpoint security, antispam, database security, vulnerability management and web application security.

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Verizon just released a supplement(pdf) to their 2009 Data Breach Investigations Report This supplement describes the top 15 threats encountered in the Verizon caseload with recommendations on how to detect and prevent them. A must read for anyone in charge of prioritizing security efforts. More info here

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The McAfee Web Gateway was formerly Webwasher, which was bought by Secure Computing, which was then bought by McAfee. I interviewed the product manager for Webwasher here and here. I think most, if not all, of the information still stands. Webwasher was one of the pioneer secure web proxies. I was enamored with this type [...]

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The Blue Coat ProxySG began life long ago as a proxy cache by CacheFlow. Recognizing the market opportunity to secure that traffic they developed more security features and pioneered the secure web gateway. Blue Coat has their own web filter product with a perpetual license (as opposed to a subscription) which can save you lots [...]

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The Xceedium Gatekeeper is a hardened appliance that enables companies to remotely manage the activities of high-risk users from a central point to anywhere in the heterogeneous IT infrastructure, without modification of legacy systems and with minimal implementation. (Link: Xceedium Gatekeeper)

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Palo Alto Networks has shifted the firewall paradigm from port and protocol to application and user. Their App-ID technology uses signatures to identify and control applications on the network regardless of port, protocol or evasive tactic. It identifies encrypted SSL applications too. They integrate with Active Directory so you can control traffic based on users and groups (eDirectory and other LDAP integration are on the way). They block a wide range of threats and unauthorized file transfers and control web surfing. Top it off with QOS, SSL-VPN and a tad of DLP. (Link: Palo Alto Networks)

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Ironkey makes high-end, secure, USB flash drives for the security and privacy conscious. Designed for the military, government and enterprise, it is easy to deploy and use. (Link: Ironkey)

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Offered as a stand-alone product or as part of the BigFix Systems Lifecycle Management suite, BigFix Power Management allows IT organizations to enforce conservation policies across the enterprise, while providing granularity that enables application of these policies to a single computer. For end users, BigFix Power Management maximizes power policy deployment while minimizing usage impact through an optional “opt-in” approach. Granular controls also allow end users to save their work before shutting the system down – ensuring no loss to productivity. (Link: BigFix)

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You can automate systems and security management tasks and see, manage, update and protect all your desktops, servers and mobile devices from a single console. It doesn’t matter if your systems are inside or outside the corporate firewall. The power management solutions is here. (Link: LANDesk)

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