NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: NETWORK PRODUCT TEST RESULTS
09/13/05
Dear security.world@gmail.com,
In this issue:
* Testing to find which anti-spyware product is best for your
corporate network
* Links related to Network Product Test Results
* Featured reader resource
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THE LATEST HOME NETWORK EQUIPMENT PREDICTIONS
How many devices will be connected to home networks by the year
2010? Does 1 billion devices sound right? Is the prediction
based on more home networks coming online or more devices per
home network? And what is the prediction for wireless adoption
in home networks? For the latest, click here:
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Today's focus:
McAfee, Tech Assist top anti-spyware test
By Barry Nance
Spyware can kill your business quicker than spam or viruses.
Spam eats bandwidth and productivity (as you spend time deleting
in-basket items). Viruses delete files, throw egotistical
messages on your screen and use your address book as a
springboard for perpetuating themselves across the network.
But spyware insidiously logs your keystrokes, rifles through
your files for password and credit card data, peppers your
screen with ads and slows your PCs to a crawl.
To find which anti-spyware product is best for your corporate
network, we invited about 30 vendors to submit products to our
lab for testing. We received 18 products from 16 vendors, and we
also looked at the beta version of Microsoft's Windows
AntiSpyware tool.
Identifying and removing spyware (either at the desktop or
preventing at the gateway) was our most important criteria. We
also looked for useful reports, timely alerts and easy
deployment and usability. Protecting our network from users who
roam the Internet too freely, or who bring unapproved software
into the office, was our main goal.
We gave separate awards for the gateway and the client/server
approaches. McAfee's Secure Web Gateway wins a Clear Choice
award for keeping spyware from entering our network (see Net
Results for anti-spyware gateway products
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlprodrev6847> ). The Secure Web
Gateway thwarted 90% of the spyware in our tests, has an
intuitive user interface and was child's play to install. On the
client or server, Tech Assist's Omniquad AntiSpy Enterprise wins
Clear Choice award. (see Net Results
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlprodrev6848> ) These products had
high spyware detection success rates, easy-to-navigate user
interfaces and useful reports.
For more on this test, please go to:
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlprodrev6849>
The top 5: Today's most-read stories
1. McAfee, Tech Assist top anti-spyware test
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlprodrev6962>
2. What's the best way to protect against spyware?
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlprodrev6963>
3. Google hacking <http://www.networkworld.com/nlprodrev6850>
4. Supermarket chain freezes Internet access
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlprodrev6851>
5. Cisco warns of another IOS bug
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlprodrev6852>
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To contact:
Nance runs Network Testing Labs and is the author of
Introduction to Networking, 4th Edition and Client/Server LAN
Programming. He can be reached at barryn@erols.com
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This newsletter is sponsored by Tacit
Network World Executive Guide: Staying Focused on the Moving
Target that is Storage
Keeping pace with evolving storage strategies, architectures,
and trends is not unlike keeping pace with your organizations
underlying capacity needs. From ILM strategies to SAN management
to the threat of those USB memory sticks, this Network World
Executive Guide will help you stay focused on the moving target
that is Storage. Register now and get a free copy of Network
World's Storage Executive Guide.
http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=114179
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ARCHIVE LINKS
Clear Choice Tests archive:
http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/index.html
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FEATURED READER RESOURCE
GARTNER'S SECURITY HYPE-O-METER
What is hype and has it influenced your network security
efforts? At a recent Gartner security summit, analysts described
what they say are "The Five Most Overhyped Security Threats,"
risks that have been overblown and shouldn't be scaring everyone
as much as they seem to be. For more, click here:
<http://www.networkworld.com/weblogs/security/009180.html>
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