Application whitelisting review: Bit9 Parity Suite

Bit9 Parity 5.0 shines brightest among whitelisting competitors with strong protection and useful risk metrics... more

Application whitelisting review: CoreTrace Bouncer

CoreTrace Bouncer 5 provides first-rate application control with a few unique features ... more

Application whitelisting review: Lumension Application Control

Lumension Application Control is a competitive product with a number of standout features and one significant omission... more

Application whitelisting review: SignaCert Enterprise Trust Services

SignaCert is great for monitoring compliance with application and configuration policies, but it lacks built-in blocking... more

Application whitelisting review: McAfee Application Control

McAfee's whitelisting protection for Windows, Linux, and Solaris is short on shortcomings... more

Test Center review: Whitelisting security offers salvation

Die, unknown executable! Keeping up with malware signatures is becoming unsustainable, so blocking all but known good programs may be our only hope. A review of five whitelisting security packages yields a clear winner in the battle for 21st century security... more

When NAC meets NAP

Complete and seamless integration across Cisco NAC, Microsoft NAP, and other network access control solutions remains a distant dream, but signs of progress emerge... more

Browsing behind Windows Vista

Vista's Mandatory Integrity Controls help defend your system safe from a malicious Web, but only if your browser supports them... more

Test Center guide to browser security

Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari have different security advantages and shortcomings. More important than the browser you choose, however, is how you maintain and use it.... more

Beware the sting of XSS

Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari all offer some protections, but vigilance is the best defense... more

Browser secrets of secure connections

Ranking Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari on cipher support... more

Test Center: How secure is Safari?

Apple's Web browser has many good protections, but lacks security zones, granular controls, and strong cipher support... more

Test Center: How secure is Internet Explorer?

The world's most popular browser is also the most frequently attacked, but comes with controls and management capabilities other browsers can't match... more

Test Center: How secure is Opera?

Opera Software's underrated browser is rich in both features and granular security controls, but misses important Windows protections... more

Test Center: How secure is Firefox?

Mozilla's popular Web browser is long on user-friendly features and third-party extensions, and short on granular security controls... more

Test Center: How secure is Google Chrome?

Google's shiny new open source Web browser is a frustrating blend of excellent security model, questionable decisions, and a dearth of critical security controls... more

Test Center: Sandbox security versus the evil Web

Five products strive to trap drive-by downloads and other threats in a virtual Web browsing space, with mixed results... more

Two tenacious exploits debunk vendor claims

The Adobe Flash Clipboard Hijack and the XP Antivirus exploit throw "state-of-the-art" Web security clients for a loop... more

At the front lines of protecting the Internet

VeriSign's CTO on securing the DNS infrastructure and whether new identity certificates add any value... more

Product review: Titus Labs helps stop e-mail slips

Titus Labs Message Classification proves an easy and flexible way to enforce data sensitivity labeling in Outlook... more