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Companies should evaluate broader inbound e-mail security threat protection capabilities, not just spam filtering, from vendors. The e-mail security market is volatile, both from a technology and a business operations perspective. The security information and event management market is being driven by customers' need for real-time awareness of external and internal threats. It is a fragmented market in which no dominant vendor has emerged. Personal firewalls strengthen a company's perimeter defenses by blocking attacks against individual workstations and mobile devices. This market remains viable for best-of-breed products. Traditional signature-based antivirus products can no longer protect companies from malicious code attacks. Vendors must execute product and business strategies to meet the new market requirements for broader malicious code protection. Firewalls are a mature technology, but the technology landscape and evolving threats demand continuing improvements. Firewall buyers have choices, as illustrated by Gartner's latest Magic Quadrant for the network firewall market. More and more firms are replacing WANs with less-expensive, IP-based virtual private networks. We categorize up-and-coming vendors whose products can often smooth the transition for small businesses and save them money. More and more firms are replacing WANs with less-expensive, IP-based virtual private networks. Here we categorize vendors whose products are generally the safest choices, though not necessarily the best for you. |
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