NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: NEAL WEINBERG ON PRODUCT REVIEWS 11/30/04 Today's focus: Sunbelt Inspector
Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED], In this issue: * SunBelt Network Security Inspector is a good choice for a ��secondary vulnerability scanner * Links related to Product Reviews * Featured reader resource _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored By BMC Software Linking IT Priorities to Business Objectives, an IDC whitepaper. Get insights from IDC on aligning business goals and IT priorities. IDC offers practical, actionable information on how Business Service Management can help you reduce operating costs, improve service levels, respond faster to business needs and protect delivery of business-critical. Click here to download this whitepaper now. http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=88768 _______________________________________________________________ EXCITING CHANGES FOR THE PRODUCT REVIEWS NEWSLETTER! We're happy to announce that starting this week, the name of this newsletter will change to Network Product Test Results to more accurately reflect all the great info you are receiving. Every Tuesday and Thursday you can still look forward to receiving updates of Network World's latest single-product tests and reviews, comparative tests and reviews, and buyer's guides - in the testers' own words. Enjoy! _______________________________________________________________ Today's focus: Sunbelt Inspector By Neal Weinberg If you are in the market for a less expensive secondary vulnerability scanner, you might want to take a look at SunBelt Network Security Inspector. SunBelt - which acts as an OEM to the Harris vulnerability database - sets its price at about $1,500 per administrator, not licensed by IP address like most of its competitors. Based on this price, relative scanning speed and ease of use, SunBelt could be used as a secondary point scanner for quick scans. However, based on our accuracy testing, we don't recommend that you rely on it as a primary vulnerability assessment tool. While the scan impact was minimal, SunBelt's product did not identify all the devices in our operating system identification test and provided limited information, such as "Linux" or "Windows" for the systems it identified. Vulnerability scan results also were out of line with other products tested. SunBelt would sometimes identify different vulnerabilities than the other products, although the remediation tasks would result in the issue being fixed. On the Red Hat 6.2 system, though, it identified 14 vulnerabilities that were false positives and not reported by any of the other products tested. The SunBelt GUI is very strong. The product is fast and very easy to use. Reports are provided through a Crystal Reports engine, but they are only exportable by printing to PDF. Because this product is designed to be a point scanner, scan scheduling and options configuration are not included. Vulnerability updates are also only performed manually. For the full report, go to <http://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2004/110804revside.html> RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS Network vulnerability assessment management Network World, 11/08/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2004/110804rev.html Network-modeling tools Network World, 10/18/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2004/1018rev.html _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Neal Weinberg Neal Weinberg is features editor at Network World, in charge of product reviews, Buyer's Guides, technology primers, how-tos, issue-oriented feature stories and the Technology Insider series. 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