Cyberoam’s UTM appliance brings its unique identity based security to bear on the enterprise. In this exclusive review we find out if the Cyberoam CR1500i hits the target.

The web interface is very intuitive and can be customized for your various administrators and auditors. A range of preconfigured interfaces for data privacy regulations and compliancy guidelines such as PCI and SOX are also provided by Guardium.

If you're carrying sensitive data around on an unsecured portable hard disk, you're asking for trouble. iStorage's DiskCrypt Mobile wants to keep your data safe.

The comprehensive log monitoring and reporting tools offered by LogRhythm will make it much easier for businesses to tighten security and prove regulatory compliance. The appliance is very easy to deploy and scores highly for value as the price includes all the key standards compliancy report packages.

Netgear moves firmly into the web and message content security market with a family of three appliances. The STM300 looks good value and in this exclusive review we see how well it performs. The main contribution from CP Secure is its stream scanning technology. This uses a multithreaded approach which starts scanning and analysing traffic as it enters the network.

SmoothWall aims for the enterprise with a content security appliance that packs a mighty punch in the hardware department. We review the Guardian SWG-1208 to see how well it performs. The latest SWG-1208 provides the same features as SmoothWall’s Network Guardian software but is delivered ready to go as a rack mount appliance.

The SmoothGuard 1000-UTM delivers a choice selection of security measures for the price all packaged into a well specified appliance. We weren’t impressed with problems experienced during installation and found the web interface unintuitive but Smoothwall certainly made up for this with a fine performance in our web filtering and anti-spam tests.

For anti-spam you have a range of features including spam word dictionaries, DNS RBLs, message content analysis, block lists and WatchGuard’s ReputationAuthority component. The latter uses behavioural analysis to determine whether inbound web and mail traffic can be trusted.