Security
Businesses are constantly challenged with how to secure critical and sensitive information, yet provide access when appropriate. When you add in the presence of remote threats, and the need for centralized management, the need for Security products becomes obvious. Through the use of Virtual Private Networks, strong two-factor authentication, network anti-virus, global management controls and more, Alternative Technology’s security products provide network professionals with the tools they need to manage the safety and security of their businesses.
- Anti-Virus
A feature providing the ability for a(n) software/appliance to protect (a) client machine(s) from malicious viruses. The feature actively scans and guards a machine as it is used when connected to the Internet or local network of an enterprise infrastructure.
Vendors in category: Aladdin, Blue Coat, CA, Fortinet, McAfee, McAfee, MX Logic, Secure Computing, SonicWALL, WatchGuard
- Device Encryption
Data encryption is a means of scrambling the data so that is can only be read by the person(s) holding the “key” - a password of some sort. Without the “key”, the cipher cannot be broken and the data remains secure. Using the key, the cipher is decrypted and the data is returned to its original value or state.
Vendors in category: Aladdin, CA, McAfee, Utimaco Safeware
- Filtering (anti-spam, web, content)
Content Filtering: A hardware device or software application that blocks and/or records access to web sites as specified by a list of URLs.
Anti-Spam: A feature providing the ability for a(n) software/appliance to protect (a) client machine(s) from unsolicited emails. The feature actively scans and guards from unsolicited emails either on the enterprise’s email server itself, or on a point in the infrastructure where email traffic passes through, enabling the feature to be applied.
Vendors in category: Aladdin, Aladdin, Blue Coat, Fortinet, McAfee, MX Logic, Radware, Secure Computing, SonicWALL, WatchGuard, Websense
- Firewall
A firewall is a set of related programs and/or appliances located at a network gateway that protects the resources of a private network from users on other networks by monitoring and filtering of IP traffic.
Vendors in category: Fortinet, Radware, Secure Computing, SonicWALL, WatchGuard
- Intrusion Detection / Prevention
Intrusion prevention: is a preemptive approach to network security used to identify potential threats and respond to them swiftly.
Intrusion detection: Intrusion detection (ID) is a type of security management system for computers and networks. An ID system gathers and analyzes information from various areas within a computer or a network to identify possible security breaches, which include both intrusions (attacks from outside the organization) and misuse (attacks from within the organization).
Vendors in category: Fortinet, Radware, Secure Computing, SonicWALL, WatchGuard
- Network Access Control
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Vendors in category: McAfee
- Physical
The ability to physically touch an object. As related to computer security, the ability of someone to access equipment without any physical barriers (e.g. a server room with a secured door) preventing them from physically tampering with the equipment.
Vendors in category: APC
- Security Information and Event Management
Security Information and Event Management solutions improve the interoperability of security-related information from different security and network devices and applications
- VPN
Virtual Private Networking: A software or hardware based solution that creates an encrypted tunnel between two points, securing the communications between those points. This is most commonly used as a way for remote users to access a network over the Internet.
Vendors in category: AEP Networks, Fortinet, Secure Computing, SonicWALL, WatchGuard