11/20/2008

10 IT Security Companies worth Watching

Kevin R. Smith
Co-Editor

Network World, long one of our favorite magazines / sites for all things network and security related, has a 5-page piece on a few of the many interesting computer security companies.

Each company tries to tackle different challenges many of us face in computer and network security. All-in-all it's an interesting read, but given the nature of Network World, it's really aimed at enterprise security and not so much at the average consumer / home PC user.

An interesting read no less.

	Security Company...	Noteworthy premise...
1	Behavioral Recognition Systems	Takes digital video streams and analyzes them for potential threat information.
2	CoreTrace	Keeps track of just the programs that are supposed to be running on a computer rather than trying to catch everything that isn't.
3	Envysion	Provides managed video surveillance services including the installation of cameras in business locations.
4	Guardian Analytics	Helps banks prevent fraud by analyzing customers accounts to look for suspicious behavior
5	Metaforic	Prevents software tampering, piracy and theft. Can shut the program off or take other protective steps.
6	nexTier Networks	Monitors and blocks sensitive (i.e. confidential) content in transmission across networks with a data-leak prevention network appliance.
7	NovaShield	Detects / blocks so-called "drive-by" downloads. Designed to stop malware not ordinarily detected.
8	Packet Analytics	Analyze traffic between computers on a network by looking at the logfiles from those computers to make profiling and analysis easier for network engineers.
9	Purewire	Protects enterprise users from malicious-code attacks while surfing the Web online.
10	Rohati	Controls user access to applications through access-control lists done at the network level.