Joel Snyder - Author - PC World Australia

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Article | 22/06/2010 Network access control in a nutshell

Twelve leading NAC products put to the test

Article | 24/05/2010 Cisco's NAC goes off track, customers taken aback

As the most important supplier of network infrastructure to enterprises, Cisco's NAC products are a natural point of curiosity for network managers. U...

Article | 1/02/2010 Netgear ProSecure STM600 web security gateway

The Netgear ProSecure STM600 security appliance takes on small-to-midsize business stalwarts such as Fortinet and Barracuda by including antispam, ant...

Article | 22/10/2008 How does an IP-PBX work?

If you're thinking about jumping into the world of VoIP, one option is an on-site IP-PBX. With products ranging from freeware open source to turn-key ...

Article | 12/08/2008 Five great Wi-Fi Internet Radios

While Web-based music offerings from Apple (iTunes) and others have made it easy to turn a laptop or desktop into a music player, what if you want to ...

Article | 8/04/2008 SonicWall smashes speed records

Last month, SonicWall rolled out its next-generation unified threat management firewall appliance geared for the enterprise. In our exclusive test of ...

Article | 20/11/2007 SonicWall PRO 5060

The SonicWall PRO 5060 is a 1U-high system with six 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports. At the top of the line for SonicWall's PRO-series product offering, it...

Article | 14/11/2007 Testing All-in-one Firewalls

Are there unified threat management (UTM) firewalls with the chops to provide the perimeter security functions that an enterprise needs?

Article | 14/11/2007 AV's place is not in the all-in-one security box

There is no real agreement about whether antivirus software is required in or even a good idea for an enterprise-class firewall.

Article | 14/11/2007 Watts up with power consumption?

The data center may seem a big place, but watts are watts: Every one you use costs you money. Two firewalls in a high-availability pair may not be the...

Article | 14/11/2007 UTMs require routing for flexibility's sake

We tested the OSPF-routing capabilities of the UTM devices in order to simulate the kind of multiple-exit network (two Internet gateways) that might b...

Article | 14/11/2007 A closer look at UTM hardware architecture

One of the appliances we received was simply an off-the-shelf server (IBM's System x3650). Other devices ranged from very lightly customized (Secure C...

Article | 14/11/2007 Tracking UTM high availability

The high-availability (HA) and scalability features in the enterprise UTM firewalls we tested range from very fancy to dead simple.

Article | 14/11/2007 VPN capabilities vary widely across UTM firewall devices

Despite the fact that VPNs and firewalls have been residing on the same box for over seven years, our testing of both of the site-to-site and remote a...

Article | 14/11/2007 UTM performance takes a hit

Because every network requires a different way of measuring performance and most UTM products offer thousands of deployment options, it's hard to draw...