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by Christopher Lindquist

Security Tools for the New Era

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Dec 01, 20031 min
Data and Information SecuritySecurity

While some technologies are still only dreams, others are beginning to make commercial advances. Here's a (by-no-means complete) sample of companies using new techniques to help CSOs do their jobs.

While some technologies are still only dreams, others are beginning to make commercial advances. Here’s a (by-no-means complete) sample of companies using new techniques to help CSOs do their jobs.ArcSightEntercept Security TechnologiesInternet Security SystemsOkenaSana SecurityTeros

www.arcsight.com

The company offers a suite of tools intended to let security personnel analyze and manage threat data through a consolidated interface.

www.entercept.com

Intrusion prevention product maker combines signatures with “behavioral rules” to detect and stop attacks. Acquired by Network Associates in 2003.

www.iss.net

ISS’s Proventia product line will be able to help users create everything from firewalls to virus filters to intrusion prevention systems to as-yet-uninvented tools in the future.

www.cisco.com

Acquired by Cisco Systems, Okena’s products detect and block potential attacks without the need for constantly updated digital signatures.

www.sanasecurity.com

If a previously “normal” application behaves abnormally, Sana’s Primary Response can warn administrators of potential problems and block attacks for which patches may not yet exist.

www.teros.com

The Teros Secure Application Gateway promises to block a variety of Web-based attacks while “cloaking” machines to hide them from attackers.