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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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Smoothwall is a commercial opensource product line that includes secure web gateway and UTM appliances. They also offer software and virtual appliances. Some of the platforms combine email security with the web security features. (Link: Smoothwall)

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Procera provides an industry-leading DPI (deep packet inspection) solution for broadband service providers, mobile and higher education customers. Each market has unique needs and utilizes DPI technology in different manners, but all recognize the strategic value of the technology in operating their networks. Network operators leverage Procera’s DPI technology to assess the impact of over [...]

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A10 Networks makes 64-bit server load balancing appliances with more features than F5 for far less cost. Their hardware architecture is what sets them apart. They also have a bandwidth management appliance and an identity management appliance. and (Link: A10 Networks

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XRoads Networks makes devices that combine three core functions: Network QOS and Traffic Shaping, Network Load Balancing, and Network to Network Optimization (WAN Optimization). (Link: XRoads Networks)

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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.

(Link: Fortinet)

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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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