Andrew Garcia

As VOIP systems proliferate, so, too, must the measures taken to secure them. Luckily for IT administrators, several resources are available to help them do just that. In the book “Hacking Exposed VOIP: Voice over IP Security Secrets & Solutions,” for example, authors David Endler (director of security research at TippingPoint) and Mark Collier (chief […]

The TalkSwitch line of PBX appliances provides small businesses with a simple and cost-effective way to bridge the divide between existing legacy phone equipment and VOIP. Although not as feature-laden as some of the other small-business-oriented VOIP offerings eWEEK Labs has tested, Centrepoint Technologies TalkSwitch appliances are nonetheless a solid value. We tested the $1,395 […]

Since kweek labs initial evaluation of draft 802.11n-enabled wireless LAN products, wireless chip set and hardware manufacturers have been improving interoperability among their products. New product lines featuring systems based on different chip-set manufacturers are becoming the norm, and vendors have been updating their software and participating in bake-offs to improve interoperability prior to the […]

In the RSA 2007 conference titled Securing End Points with Network Solutions, Tipping Point‘s Senior Product Manager Robert Albach Sr. posed a real doozy of a question: “Would you rather have your company a) infected by a widespread, debilitating worm or b) lose critical data going out of the network?” Pretty much all the audience […]

In my travels along the aisleways of RSA 2007, it became quite clear that USB sticks are the biggest threat in the world. Bigger than the Yankees, trans fat or Dr. Evil, apparently. It’s common knowledge that portable storage is a bane to corporate security. A user, malicious or not, can walk out of the […]

Bit9s Parity 3.5 is a fine host-based intrusion prevention system that works not by identifying and blocking malware before it touches the system but rather by limiting the code that can run on the desktop. Although its a daunting product at the outset, Bit9s new tools greatly simplify management. These tools also solve some of […]

There are numerous techniques for providing host-based intrusion prevention capabilities, but eWEEK Labs believes there are two that will best complement enterprises current strategies: vulnerability inspection and application and process vetting. These technologies can be found in disparate solutions, but both should be seen as extensions of existing projects rather than as security as a […]

Despite all the hoopla around Microsofts Windows Vista, enterprise IT managers wont—and shouldnt—rush en masse to the new operating system. Nonetheless, eWEEK Labs advises that administrators examine tools such as FullArmors ADMX Migrator to better understand and prepare for the operating systems presence in the network. One of Vistas great under-the-hood enhancements is dramatically improved […]

Bit9s Parity 3.5 is a fine host-based intrusion prevention system that works not by identifying and blocking malware before it touches the system but rather by limiting the code that can run on the desktop. Although its a daunting product at the outset, Bit9s new tools greatly simplify management. These tools also solve some of […]

There are numerous techniques for providing host-based intrusion prevention capabilities, but eWEEK Labs believes there are two that will best complement enterprises current strategies: vulnerability inspection and application and process vetting. These technologies can be found in disparate solutions, but both should be seen as extensions of existing projects rather than as security as a […]

Particularly for small businesses, 2006 brought forth an explosion of choice in the voice-over-IP market as a flood of companies introduced IP PBX services and appliances, particularly from networking companies targeted toward the low end of the market and startups building and developing on the recent advances in open-source telephony software. As with all things, […]

Particularly for small businesses, 2006 brought forth an explosion of choice in the voice-over-IP market as a flood of companies introduced IP PBX services and appliances, particularly from networking companies targeted toward the low end of the market and startups building and developing on the recent advances in open-source telephony software. As with all things, […]