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SECURITY INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
The amount of threat data to be managed is growing. Fortunately, a well-planned SIM strategy can help you make sense of the deluge. We analyze the often confusing and complex security information management market.
Our Neohapsis Lab tested eight enterprise-class SIM suites capable of supporting at least a dozen log formats while moderating the amount of information security administrators must process. Although a veteran in the market earned our Editor's Choice, new arrivals are staking their claims.
We tested six SIM tools and found that, for the most part, they deliver on their promises -- for a price.
Splunk aims to make IT's job easier by quickly searching for keywords in all log files and digging deep to find patterns across the entire system, not just within one file.
Make a New Year's resolution to off-load everyday tasks and to spend time researching and implementing new technologies.
nFX Data One monitors databases and Web sites for application-layer attacks
Integration is key with log aggregation, and this product's ability to extract data via Web services opens up intriguing possibilities.
What's the best way to protect your valuable assets? These award-winning products may hold the answer.
Just a few years ago, IT pros were thinking about rapid growth and unprecedented innovation. This year's poll, however, reveals strong preoccupation with protecting what they have, minimizing risks--and keeping jobs.
Cisco Systems Monday said products are now available for its Network Admission Control (NAC) program, an effort launched last year to build features that combat security threats.
Cisco has added routers and software to its Network Admission Control program.
Physical and logical security staffs, both tasked with protecting enterprise assets, are seeing increased technology and budgetary overlaps. Now, technological shifts, budgetary realities and a major government initiative are adding further impetus for convergence of these two factions. We examine the potential benefits to your organization.
Network Computing editors are committed to creating the most comprehensive tests -- and therefore the most thorough analysis -- of technology anywhere.
IT is frustrated by the internal strife and snake-oil salesmanship of technology vendors. In this year's reader poll, we invited IT managers to vent about the tech challenges they face every day and how they wish vendors would address these problems. Read the unvarnished truth about what your peers are thinking.
Implementing security policies in an unregulated user population poses unique challenges. We look at innovative -- and inexpensive -- technologies some schools have employed.
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