Reader Trust Awards 2002
 Best
General Security Solution

Nominated Products
Aladdin Knowledge Systems - eSafe Gateway
Appgate - AppGate Version 4
BindView Corp. (Fitzgerald Communications) - BindView Enterprise Security Solution
Blue Lance, Inc. - Blue Lance LT Auditor+
BSI - Information Security Management System (ISO/IEC 17799, Code of Practice and BS 7799, Specification for ISMS)
Check Point Software Technologies - Check Point Next Generation
Computer Associates - eTrust Family
Computer Associates - eTrust Policy Compliance
Evidian - AccessMaster Suite
Hewlett Packard (from The Hoffman Agency) - HP North American Security Consulting Practice
IBM UK Ltd - Tivoli Policy Director
Network Associates - Sniffer Wireless
Network Associates - Sniffer Portable
Network Associates - SnifferDistributed
Passlogix - v-GO SSO
PentaSafe Security Technologies - VigilEnt Security Manager
PentaSafe Security Technologies - VigilEnt Policy Center
Security Designers Ltd - Active Net Steward V2
SilentRunner, Inc. - SilentRunner
SSH Communications Security - SSH NAT Traversal Toolkit
Symantec Corp - Symantec Enterprise Security Manager (ESM)
Symantec Corp - Symantec NetRecon
Top Layer Networks - IDS Balancer
Tripwire Inc. - Tripwire for Routers and Switches
Tripwire Inc. - Tripwire Manager 2.4
Trust Digital - PDASecure Enterprise with Policy Editor
VASCO Data Security - VACMAN SERVER 6.0
zTrace Technologies - zTrace Gold

Aladdin Knowledge Systems
Address: 2920 N. Arlington Heights Road, Arlington Heights, IL USA 60004
Contact: Mr M Zintel
Tel: 847.637.4020
Fax: 847.818.3810
Email: Matthew.Zintel@eAladdin.com
Website: http://www.ealaddin.com/

eSafe Gateway

eSafe Gateway sets the standard for content security, protecting networks from vandals, viruses, inappropriate content and data exposure. Built in a scalable, high-availability architecture to provide superior load-balancing, eSafe Gateway can be configured to operate in any network with or without a firewall.


AppGate
Address: 470 Park Avenue South, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10016
Contact Name: Ms. Ailara
Tel: 212.931.6137
Fax: 212.931.6159
Email: hailara@peppercom.com
Website: http://www.appgate.com/

AppGate Version 4

AppGate is an advanced VPN solution that extends e-security into the trusted network. Flexible and scalable, AppGate uses SSH protocol for effective wireless or wired security. AppGate comprises an intuitive administrative GUI for real-time monitoring and reporting; LDAP support enabling single-locale, cost-effective administrative control; customizable access control; role-based rights; and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) support.


BindView Corp
Address: Two Seaport Lane, Suite 910, Boston, MA, USA 02210
Contact: Ms A Goldman
Tel: 617.692.3293
Fax: 617.488.9501
Email: agoldman@fitzgerald.com
Website: http://www.bindview.com/

BindView Enterprise Security Solution

Enterprise Security Solution provides key technologies that safeguard systems from the inside out through a unique combination of vulnerability assessment, security policy auditing and enforcement, security administration and close loop security management. The solution provides support for Windows, Exchange, Novell, Sun, HP, IBM, Linux, Web servers, SQL and SAP R/3.


Blue Lance, Inc.
Address: 1700 W. Loop S., Suite 1100, Houston, TX 77027
Contact: Mr U Verma
Tel: 713-680-1187
Fax: 713-622-1370
Email: sales@bluelance.com
Website: http://www.bluelance.com/

Blue Lance LT Auditor+

Blue Lance LT Auditor+ for NT and Novell networks combines unobtrusive user and network surveillance with real-time intrusion alerts and secure audit trail technology to provide the greatest protection against unauthorized insider access, fraud and theft. Its granular filtering, enterprise-wide log consolidation and automated report scheduling features deliver the greatest flexibility and operating efficiency with the lowest TCO.


BSI
Address: 12110 Sunset Hills Rd, Reston, VA 20190
Contact Name: Mrs Rossitza Petrov
Tel: 703-464-1903
Fax: 703-437-9001
Email: petrov@bsiamericas.com
Website: http://www.bsiamericas.com/

Information Security Management System (ISO/IEC 17799, Code of Practice and BS 7799, Specification for ISMS)

An Information Security Management System (ISMS) provides a well-proven framework to initiate, implement, maintain and manage information security within an organization. An ISMS aims to ensure business continuity and reduce business damage by preventing and minimizing the impact of security incidents. It encompasses people, processes and IT systems. The leading standard for information security is ISO 17799. The standard exists in two parts: ISO 17799 - Code of Practice for Information Security Management, and BS 7799 - Specification for Information Security Management Systems. The standard defines over 127 security controls, in 10 sections, to enable companies to identify the particular safeguards appropriate for their specific business or area of responsibility.


Check Point Software Technologies
Address: First Floor Unit One, Wellbrook Court, Girton, CAMBS CB3 0NA
Contact: Ms L Kjellerup
Tel: 01223 713 600
Fax: 01223 713 621
Email: lkjellerup@Checkpoint.com
Website: http://www.checkpoint.com/

Check Point Next Generation™

The NG suite provides a security infrastructure allowing managers to take control of and secure the increasingly complex business network of today. Focus is on management, transparency and strong security. It allows security managers to show how the security policy affects business processes, bridging the gap between IT and business functions in the boardroom.


Computer Associates
Address: Ditton Park, Riding Court Road, Datchet, Slough. SL3 9LL
Contact: Miss E Clements
Tel: 01753 242 387
Fax: 01753 242 500
Email: emma.clements@ca.com
Website: http://www.ca.com/etrust

eTrust family

eTrust family protects all mission-critical resources, from the browser to the mainframe. Perfect for any size organisation, eTrust solutions offer best-of-breed functionality right out-of-the-box. Tight integration among eTrust offerings provides bulletproof security across the enterprise and the flexbility to incrementally adopt eTrust solutions with the assurance they will seamlessly work with one another.


Computer Associates
Address: Ditton Park, Riding Court Road, Datchet, Slough. SL3 9LL
Contact: Miss E Clements
Tel: 01753 242 387
Fax: 01753 242 500
Email: emma.clements@ca.com
Website: http://www.ca.com/etrust

eTrust Policy Compliance

eTrust Policy Compliance is a comprehensive enterprise security risk management solution that identifies potential problem areas, recommends appropriate corrective actions, and prevents problem recurrence by monitoring system security. It enables administrators to easily detect vulnerable security policies and effectively manage risks anywhere in their eBusiness.


Evidian, A Groupe Bull Company
Address: Rue Jean Jaures, 78340 Les Clayes Sous Bois, France/
Contact: Mr T G Raynsford
Tel: + 33 1 30 80 69 82
Fax: + 33 1 30 80 79 51
Email: terry.raynsford@evidian.com
Web: http://www.evidian.com/

AccessMaster Suite

AccessMaster - an Enterprise and Internet security management solution that provides organisations with a single point of administration, enabling customers to streamline the deployment of security policy and consistently enforce it, while dramatically decreasing security management costs and increasing user convenience. AccessMaster also provides breakthrough Web authentication and authorisation technology. This feature allows users to access multiple Web and enterprise applications with one log-on and one password, which simplifies administrative tasks while improving user convenience and overall application security.


The Hoffman Agency for HP
Address: 10 South Third Street, 5th floor, San Jose, California 95113
Contact: Ms Sara Warren
Tel: 408-975-3077
Fax: 408-286-0133
Email: swarren@hoffman.com
Website: http://www.hp.com/security/services/

HP North American Security Consulting Practice

The HP North American Security Consulting Practice is helping customers operate securely and successfully in today's challenging business environment by developing an appropriate level of security based on their business requirements. The North American practice is providing customers with both defined and customized offerings in the areas of security awareness, risk mitigation, infrastructure services, and security integration services. These sophisticated services are provided by experienced and qualified consultants and are designed to protect a company's most valuable information assets. Few others have the breadth and depth of knowledge in the security field that HP brings to its customers.


IBM UK LTD
Address: Sefton Park, Bells Hill, Stoke Poges, Bucks SL2 4JS
Contact: Ms S Thorley
Tel: 01753 780 000
Fax: 01753 780 899
Email: tsherrie@uk.ibm.com
Website: http://www.tivoli.com/products/index/secureway_policy_dir/

Tivoli Policy Director

Tivoli Policy Director enables quick deployment of secure Web applications. It provides access control for users from any Web browser to any of your Web application servers, while simplifying the security coding. Tivoli Policy Director can utilize a wide variety of ways to authenticate, including PKI, without rewriting the applications.


Network Associates
Address: 227 Bath Road, Slough, Berks SL1 5PP
Contact: Ms E Dalkilic
Tel: 01753 217500
Fax: 01753 217434
Email: ellie_dalkilic@nai.com
Website: http://www.sniffer.com/

Sniffer Wireless

Sniffer Wireless not only enables troubleshooting on wireless 802.11b communications but provides comprehensive monitoring to ensure that security practices are being enforced. For example not permitting unencrypted traffic onto the network or allowing users with inappropriate network identification being allowed access. Sniffer Wireless helps enforce overall wireless security policy, and also detects intruders attempting to log onto the network.


Network Associates
Address: 227 Bath Road, Slough, Berks SL1 5PP
Contact: Ms E Dalkilic
Tel: 01753 217500
Fax: 01753 217434
Email: ellie_dalkilic@nai.com
Website: http://www.sniffer.com/

Sniffer Portable

If a machine is compromised in a security attack, its resources can be used in a denial of service/virus attack for another target unbeknownst to you. Sniffer Portable has utilised skills from its sister company McAfee to create a traffic pattern filter to detect which computer is broadcasting a virus. This allows a network engineer to track down and remove the offending computer before it impacts other users, and distributes viruses/ DOS breaches outside the company.


Network Associates
Address: 227 Bath Road, Slough, Berks SL1 5PP
Contact: Ms E Dalkilic
Tel: 01753 217500
Fax: 01753 217434
Email: ellie_dalkilic@nai.com
Website: http://www.sniffer.com/

Sniffer Distributed

Sniffer Distributed provides additional security measures by alerting administrators of intrusions, filtering traffic based on specific criteria, and by capturing data/evidence to help reconstruct a record of what systems were actually affected or compromised. In much the same way that a hidden security camera can record a bank robbery, Sniffer logs can provide invaluable data for forensic analysis.


Passlogix
Address: 160 Pearl Street, New York, NY USA 10005
Contact: Ms Michele Favaro
Tel: 212-901-8398
Fax: 212-825-0326
Email: michelef@passlogix.com
Website: http://www.passlogix.com/

v-GO SSO

v-GO Single Sign-On lowers help desk costs, strengthens security and increases usability by providing users a single, secure authentication to all their applications. Its patented, client-side intelligence eliminates the cost and burden of application integration. v-GO works out-of-box with virtually any Windows, Web, proprietary or host-based application without scripts or connectors. v-GO's architecture works with any LDAP directory and allows administrators to choose any form of primary user authentication.


PentaSafe Security Technologies
Address: 1233 W Loop S #1800, Houston, TX, 77027
Contact: Miss Janette Deyhle
Tel: 713 523 1992
Fax: 713 523 6393
Email: jdeyhle@pentasafe.com
Website: http://www.pentasafe.com/

VigilEnt Security Manager

VigilEnt Security Manager simplifies and centralizes security management, auditing, vulnerability assessment, and host based intrusion detection across multiple platforms and applications in a hetergeneous IT enterprise. Provides multi-platform summary, graphical, or detailed security reports. VigilEnt Security Manager increases security management effectiveness with real-time security alerts from a central console. Maximizes productivity of staff resources by providing a central, common user administration and database. Highly scaleable to meet the needs of various sized organizations. Easy to use and flexible. 


PentaSafe Security Technologies
Address: The Millennium Centre, Crosby Way, Fanrham, Surrey.GU9 7BP
Contact: Miss J K Bailey
Tel: 01252 823529
Fax: 08700 765401
Email: j.bailey@pentasafe.com
Website: http://www.pentasafe.com/

VigilEnt Policy Center

VigilEnt Policy Center transforms your security policy from a passive document into an active web application that employees can interact with on a frequent basis - creating a more secure work environment and a culture of information security awareness. VPC automates each step of policy management: creation, editing, review, distribution, education, compliance reporting, and maintenance. VPC incorporates best practices for information security policies from ISO17799 and Charles Cresson Wood, author of Information Security Policies Made Easy.


Security Designers Ltd
Address: 5 Wharfe Mews, Cliffe Terrace, Wetherby, West Yorkshire LS22 6LX
Contact: Mr D Grogan
Tel: 01937 584584
Fax: 01937 587367
Email: declan.grogan@securitydesigners.com
Website: http://www.securitydesigners.com/

Active Net Steward V2

This distributed software firewall incorporates back-door network access prevention through policy-based modem control. In addition to policing access to internal and external IP services by individual user/system, rules also control access to network 'shares'. Real-time centralised management, policy portability and audit, make this a "must have" for network security administrators.


SilentRunner, Inc.
Address: 849 International Dr. Linthicum, MD USA 21090
Contact: Ms P.H. Bourgeois
Tel: 410-981-6026
Fax: 410-691-1506
Email: patrice.bourgeois@raytheon.com
Website: http://www.silentrunner.com/

SilentRunner

Raytheon's SilentRunner is an internal network security tool designed to safeguard a company's information assets. SilentRunner identifies security risks and network vulnerabilities and alerts management to potential loss of data. It is the only security system that enables a rapid response to protect a company's assets by quickly correlating complex network events and displaying easily understood graphics. When combined with firewalls and intrusion detection systems, SilentRunner effectively completes the total network security suite.


SSH Communications Security
Address: 1076 E. Meadow Circle, Palo Alto, California. 94303
Contact: Mr Byron Rashed
Tel: 650-251-2700
Fax: 650-251-2701
Email: brashed@ssh.com
Website: http://www.ssh.com/

SSH NAT Traversal Toolkit

SSH NAT Traversal toolkit enables OEMs to create secure VPN products for road warriors and home users. NAT Traversal is under review by the IETF to become a standard for solving the incompatibility between NAT devises and IPSec. This solution, based on SSH's IPSec technology, shortens development time and expands the market for VPN solutions.


Symantec Corp.
Address: St Cloud Gate, St Cloud Way, Maidenhead, Berkshire SL6 8XD
Contact: Miss L Bunker
Tel: +44 (0) 1628 592222
Fax: +44 (0) 1628 592393
Email: lbunker@symantec.com
Website: http://www.symantec.com/

Symantec NetRecon

Symantec NetRecon provides network vulnerability assessment with progressive scanning technology. Its unique root-cause analysis engine illustrates the exact sequence of steps taken to uncover vulnerabilities. NetRecon displays vulnerability data as it scans, then provides the appropriate reports so administrators do not have to search through volumes of data.


Symantec Corp.
Address: St Cloud Gate, St Cloud Way, Maidenhead, Berkshire SL6 8XD
Contact: Miss L Bunker
Tel: +44 (0) 1628 592222
Fax: +44 (0) 1628 592393
Email: lbunker@symantec.com
Website: http://www.symantec.com/

Symantec Enterprise Security Manager (ESM)

Symantec Enterprise Security Manager ™ version 5.5 automates the discovery of security vulnerabilities and deviations of the Security Policy in mission critical e-Business applications and servers across the enterprise from a single location. It provides intelligent tools that allow administrators to create a pre-defined security baseline for every system on the network and measure performance against that baseline.


Top Layer Networks
Address: 2400 Computer Drive, Westboro, MA. 01581. USA
Contact Name: Sue Lonergan
Tel: (508) 870-1300
Fax: (508) 870-9797
Email: slonergan@toplayer.com
Web site: http://www.toplayer.com/

IDS Balancer

Top Layer’s IDS Balancer enhances a network's existing security infrastructure by comprehensively and unobtrusively distributing workload among multiple IDS systems. This security appliance solves the problem of performance issues or points of vulnerability as today’s traffic flow gets faster and hacker methods become more damaging. The IDS Balancer provides simultaneous flow mirroring to multiple groups of IDS sensors using technology intelligent enough to keep related traffic flows together and the appliance ships pre-configured for virtual plug-and-play implementation.


Tripwire Inc.
Address: 326 SW Broadway, 3rd Floor, Portland,Oregon 97205
Contact: Mrs D Kroll
Tel: 408-354-6360
Fax: 408-399-3085
Email: dkroll@tripwire.com
Website: http://www.tripwire.com/

Tripwire Manager 2.4

Tripwire Manager 2.4, a cross-platform enterprise management console that enables users to manage/view integrity reports on thousands of Tripwire for Servers 2.4 across mixed operating environments. With Manager 2.4, users can distribute policy file updates, update databases, edit configuration files, support global, decentralized IT infrastructure management, and schedule integrity checks.


Tripwire Inc.
Address: 326 SW Broadway, 3rd Floor, Portland,Oregon 97205
Contact: Mrs D Kroll
Tel: 408-354-6360
Fax: 408-399-3085
Email: dkroll@tripwire.com
Website: http://www.tripwire.com/

Tripwire for Routers and Switches

Tripwire for Routers and Switches is a data and networking integrity product that provides real-time detection and restoration of router and switch misconfigurations and attacks. This new product captures all router and switch configuration changes, enabling IT to establish a change control record for IT auditing or forensic investigation.


Trust Digital
Address: 3251 Old Lee Highway, Suite 212, Fairfax, Virginia - USA 22030
Contact: Mr Kevin Shahbazi
Tel: 1-703-246-9198
Fax: 1-703-246-9496
Email: Kevin.shahbazi@TrustDigital.com
Website: http://www.trustdigital.com/

PDASecure Enterprise with Policy Editor

Award winning and popular PDASecure Enterprise with Policy Editor allows an organization to centrally manage an unlimited number of PDA handheld or wireless devices connected to an enterprise network. Access control, encryption algorithms, device functionality can all be set and pushed to the device. A complete audit trail of device usage is also recorded and pulled back to server.


VASCO Data Security
Address: 1901 SOUTH MEYERS ROAD, SUITE 210, Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois 60181
Contact: Mr J Binst
Tel: +1 630 932 88 44
Fax: +1 630 932 88 52
Email: jbinst@vasco.com
Website: http://www.vasco.com/

VACMAN SERVER 6.0

With VACMAN Server 6.0, organizations can easily and affordably provide full Authentication, Authorization, and Administration (AAA) security for their corporate networks and web-based applications through the means that fit their business needs. The software also makes it easy for organizations to implement VASCO's family of Digipass trusted user platforms for strong authentication and e-signature security, ranging from hardware authenticators and smart cards to Digipass software and secure mobile phones and PDA's.

Organizations can thus protect their Local Area Network from insider attacks - which account for over 70% of all security breaches - and ensure that only authorized partners, customers, or employees can access Web-based applications and extranets, combined with secure dial-up remote access via the widely accepted RADIUS protocol. And because VACMAN Server 6.0 operates in all environments from one seamless, browser-based administration interface, it provides unmatched flexibility to adapt to an organization's changing security needs, with little or no additional management time and effort.


zTrace Technologies
Address: 411 Waverley Oaks Road, Ste 328, Waltham, MA 02452
Contact: Ms M Tritt
Tel: 303-828-5313
Fax: 617- 507-6489
Email: margit@zTrace.com
Website: http://www.ztrace.com/

zTrace Gold

zTrace Gold is the invisible software application that traces a missing laptop's location for recovery. The computer completes a handshake with the zServer at every Internet connection. If the laptop is reported missing, proprietary steps occur for the zTrace Recovery Team to identify the computer's exact physical location and get it back.



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