Timothy Dyck

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AppShield 4.0 Sanctums AppShield provides a strong defense against Web-based attacks, although it doesnt offer some of the leading-edge security protection its competitors provide. It has the most established track record in the field. AppShield costs $15,000 per Web server or application server. KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS USABILITY FAIR CAPABILITY FAIR PERFORMANCE GOOD INTEROPERABILITY […]

For me, the carnival and chaos that is technology journalism is coming to a close. When at a distance, one can see farther, so in one of my last columns in this space, Id like to take a look back—and forward. Since I started at eWEEK in 1996, the three developments that have brought about […]

With a pressing need to do more to protect Web applications from attack, IT staff can turn to a new class of specialized firewalls that do a great deal to protect Web servers, Web applications, and connected internal servers and databases from attack. Each of the three Web application firewalls eWEEK Labs reviews here—Kavado Inc.s […]

Earlier this month, the W3Cs XML Protocol Working Group released its final SOAP 1.2 specification (in W3C language, a Proposed Recommendation). SOAP is the core Web services standard, and the 1.2 specification caps two and a half years of development. For more details, click here. Seven organizations have been developing SOAP 1.2-compatible products in step […]

IT managers often find themselves in the position of the boy who stuck his finger in the dike—but theyre plugging system holes to prevent security floods. These holes will only increase in number as Web applications and Web services proliferate, but IT managers can provide more than stopgap security with a number of new tools […]

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY InterDo 3.0 InterDo from Kavado provides a scalable platform for Web application traffic inspection and filtering. The products Web services support makes it the right choice for organizations deploying publicly accessible Web services. InterDo costs $15,000 per server. KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS USABILITY FAIR CAPABILITY GOOD PERFORMANCE GOOD INTEROPERABILITY GOOD MANAGEABILITY GOOD SCALABILITY EXCELLENT […]

For those who are hard-core about locking down servers, Network Associates Inc.s Entercept 4.0 is a softball-size padlock. The updated intrusion prevention system, which started shipping last month, provides kernel-level security protection for Windows, Solaris and, new with this version, HP-UX. The administrative complexity can be high, but Entercepts security benefits are definitely worth the […]

“Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success.” That famous advertisement for Antarctic exploration is attributed to Ernest Shackleton, but it could just as well appeal to those embarking on a benchmarking program. Ive spent my share of hours […]

Organizations that want to deploy data analysis and visualization tools to thousands or tens of thousands of users will find Databeacons updated Databeacon server and analysis client (www.databeacon.com) easy to purchase and distribute. The updated version, now called Databeacon Collaboration Edition, began shipping last month. The client is a digitally signed Java applet and so […]

The voice recognition packages available today base their recognition process around a probabilistic table of word pairs and triples used to map spoken phonemes to written text. This knowledge of likely word relationships allows the software to predict that (to use a phrase from one of our test documents) “sagebrush strewn” is more often written […]

The latest release of ScanSoft Inc.s Dragon NaturallySpeaking voice recognition package provides nice incremental improvements but does not change the market significantly. Version 7 of NaturallySpeaking, which began shipping at the end of March, provides users with more input options (including transcription of Pocket PC voice recordings) and more precise controls for improving accuracy and […]

No word in the computing industry is more abused than the word “easy.” Well, “performance” is a pretty battered concept as well, but along with closely related notions of “usability,” “ease of use” and “user friendly,” the idea of easy has been the industrys challenge and its curse ever since computing spread beyond the glass […]