Group Tests
2016
2015
2014
- Endpoint security
- Mobile device management
- Risk & policy management
- Emerging products: Cloud security
- Digital forensic tools
- UTMs: Still defining themselves
- SIEM
- Authentication
- Unified threat management
- Emerging products: Virtual system security
- Penetration and vulnerability assessment
- Application security
2013
- Application and web security
- Emerging products: Data classification
- Identity management
- Email security/content management
- Emerging products: Online fraud
- Endpoint security (2013)
- Mobile device security (2013)
- Emerging products: Cloud security (2013)
- Risk and policy management (2013)
- Digital forensic tools (2013)
- Security information and event management (2013)
- Unified threat managers (2013)
- Emerging products: Virtual system security (2013)
- Vulnerability management (2013)
- Authentication (2013)
2010
- IPsec VPN (2010)
- Encryption at rest (2010)
- Encryption in motion (2010)
- Identity management (2010)
- NAC (2010)
- Digital forensics (2010)
- SIEM (2010)
- Endpoint UTM (2010)
- Gateway UTM (2010)
- Risk management (2010)
- Policy management (2010)
- Endpoint data leakage prevention (2010)
- Network data leakage prevention (2010)
- Anti-malware gateways (2010)
- Email security (2010)
- Anti-malware management (2010)
- Biometrics (2010)
- Patch management (2010)
2009
- Network access control (2009)
- Policy management (2009)
- Portable devices (2009)
- Password management (2009)
- Encryption (2009)
- Data protection (2009)
- Vulnerability assessment (2009)
- Digital forensics (2009)
- Unified threat management (2009)
- Endpoint security (2009)
- Web content management (2009)
- Email management (2009)
- Authentication (2009)
- Identity management (2009)
- Anti-malware (2009)
- Firewalls (2009)
2008
- Extrusion prevention (2008)
- Password management (2008)
- Encryption (2008)
- DRM (2008)
- Biometrics (2008)
- Endpoint security (2008)
- Vulnerability assessment (2008)
- Policy management (2008)
- SSL VPN (2008)
- NAC (2008)
- Email content management (2008)
- Email security (2008)
- Media forensics (2008)
- Network forensics (2008)
- Web content management (2008)
- AVA (2008)
- Anti-malware gateways (2008)
- Unified threat management (2008)
- Portable device security (2008)
- Wireless Security (2008)
- Multi-factor authentication (2008)
- Identity management (2008)
2007
- Extrusion Prevention (2007)
- Firewalls (2007)
- SSL VPNs (2007)
- Biometric tools (2007)
- Email security (2007)
- SCM (2007)
- Application vulnerability assessment (2007)
- IDS/IPS (2007)
- Unified threat management (2007)
- Two-factor authentication (2007)
- Anti-malware management (2007)
- USB security (2007)
- Wireless security (2007)
- Forensic tools (2007)
- Email Content Filtering (2007)
- Policy Management (2007)
- Identity management (2007)
- Web content filtering (2007)
- Whole disk encryption (2007)
- Vulnerability assessment (2007)
2006
- Document security (2006)
- Instant messaging (2006)
- SSL VPNs (2006)
- Policy management (2006)
- Event management (2006)
- Two-factor authentication (2006)
- Data encryption (2006)
- Multi-function appliances (2006)
- Forensic tools (2006)
- Firewalls (2006)
- Endpoint security (2006)
- AV management (2006)
- Email content filtering (2006)
- Intrusion prevention (2006)
- Web content filtering (2006)
- Wireless security (2006)
- Patch management (2006)
- Single sign-on (2006)
- Email managed security services (2006)
- Vulnerability assessment (2006)
- Anti-spam (2006)
- Anti-spyware (2006)
2005
Industry Innovators
Industry Innovators: Hall of Fame
To get to the Hall of Fame an Innovator must have been on our radar for some time and in the year-end Innovators issue for three years.
Industry Innovators: Access Control
The approaches to access control have varied over the decades, but today the challenges are greater than ever.
Industry Innovators: Data Protection
There would be no need for security on our networks if we didn't care about protecting the data that sit on them and travel on them.
Industry Innovators: Virtualisation and cloud security
We still need the functionality of traditional protections - at least in part - but the manner of deployment is quite different.
Industry Innovators: Cyber-threat analysis and intelligence
This is an entirely new category and it has become one of the most important areas of next-generation network and data protection.
Industry Innovators: Next-generation security monitoring and analytics
The approaches that each of these Innovators takes is focused on a specific way of viewing the security monitoring and analytics problem.
Industry Innovators: Security infrastructure
The evaporation of the perimeter has made the idea of an infrastructure a bit fuzzy and, certainly, the notion of a surety infrastructure is an equally gray area.
Industry Innovators: Risk and policy management
Collecting data needs to be diverse allowing data collection directly off of network devices and from questionnaires and other "soft" sources.
Industry Innovators: Analysis and testing
Our selection in this category is living proof that one doesn't need a big organisation to turn out a first-rate product with a lot of innovation behind it.
How We Test and Score
Our testing team includes knowledgeable internal staff, as well as external experts who are respected industry-wide. In our Group Tests, we aim to look at a broad range of products around a common theme.
This might mean including products that do the same thing but which are aimed at different markets - in this case, we will review them both in that context and on their own merits.
With an increasingly diverse range of products, it is not always possible to make direct comparisons to other products
Our final conclusions and ratings are subject to the judgement of the reviewer
What the Stars mean
Our star ratings indicate how well the product has performed against each of our test criteria.
These are marked as follows:
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Fails to complete certain basic functions | |
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Carries out all basic functions to a satisfactory level | |
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Carries out all basic functions very well | |
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Outstanding |
Approved/Recommended/Best Buy
Any product we review could win our Best Buy and Recommended awards.
Best Buy is out top award and goes to those products we rate as outstanding across a range of criteria.
Recommended means that the product has shone in a specific area or will suit a particular need very well
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