Cameron Sturdevant

Securify Inc. has revamped its SecurVantage packet sniffer, adding an enterprise management console and automatic policy generation, enhanced reporting, and better alert management— improvements that make the product a top contender in the emerging space of network security management. SecurVantage monitors are connected to the span port of switches in the network, and they scan […]

From 1946 to 1960, the FBI operated 3,000 wiretaps and 800 bugs on the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). Agents spied on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as part of a concerted effort to thwart his organizing efforts in the civil rights movement. The USA PATRIOT (Uniting and Strengthening America by […]

Ipswitchs Whatsup Gold 8.0 is a good tool for small offices or large departments at big organizations that need network and device monitoring in an easy-to-use, affordable package. When I tested WhatsUp Gold 8.0, slated to ship next week for $795, I was impressed with the intuitive interface. IT managers who already use the product […]

F5 Networks Inc.s Big-IP 4.5 joins a growing list of products that offer to move security, high availability, and other connection and user decisions away from servers and applications and into special-purpose appliances. As eWeek Labs tests of Big-IP 4.5 show, this approach makes sense. Big-IP let us discard “bad” traffic or send it to […]

Unbridled government collection of personal information, as outlined in the Information Awareness Office is a bad idea for a lot of reasons, not least of which is the broad notion that the right to privacy is granted in the Constitution. It is an even worse idea because we know almost nothing about what the government […]

Guidance Softwares EnCase 3.22 is a good program for investigators who need to go to court with evidence gathered from a PC. Regardless of password protection and even file deletion, EnCase can pick up data from a hard drive, storage device or Palm PDA. The $2,495 product, which is available now, allowed me to copy […]

Cisco Systems Inc.s 2.4GHz 802.11b Aironet 1100 Series access point provides good reach and satisfactory performance on wireless LANs. In eWeek Labs tests, we configured the $599 Aironet 1100 Series access point to harness VLANs (virtual LANs), quality-of-service markers and Cisco Wireless Security Suite schemes using Ciscos IOS (Internet Operating System) commands, which should be […]

Enterprise IT departments should take a close look at an emerging class of security tools that monitor the network looking for problems. Companies including e-Security Inc., Intellitactics Inc. and NetForensics Corp. already make these products, which cost in the neighborhood of $50,000 to $75,000, sit on networks one level above devices such as firewalls and […]

Enterprise IT managers who are considering a VOIP rollout, especially one based on Cisco Systems Inc.s network gear, should consider using NetIQ Corp.s Vivinet Assessor 2.0 to weed out network weaknesses. As eWeek Labs pointed out in the Oct. 21 voice-over-IP analysis (see www.eweek.com/links), a complete data network assessment is an absolute prerequisite for a […]

While trolling through anti-spam e-mail filters, I came across iHateSpam, from Sunbelt Software, and decided to look. In tests, I found that installing iHateSpam is like going to an aerobics class for the first time: awkward and painful. But the results (as in aerobics) are worth the effort. The hard part was that the thorough […]

Enterprise IT should take a close look at an emerging class of security tools that monitor the network looking for problems. Companies including netForensics (see our review of netForensics namesake product update), eSecurity and Intellitactics make these products, all of which sit a level above specific devices such as firewalls and intrusion detection systems and […]

Fortunately, a combination of low-cost tools and simple best practices can be used to help administrators figure out what applications, such as Luciras MobileSecure, are transmitting to the Internet. Low-cost consumer security products and free protocol analyzers can show and control the data a computer shares over the Internet. These products examine IP packets, to […]