RE: ANTIVIRUS and FIREWALL leaders?

["Prashant Meswani" <prashant.meswani () ukonline co uk>]

Alexis,

You can look at all the reports in the world about the best AV and
Firewalls, but at the end of the day, no reports can tell you which product
to go for. What you really need to do is to obtain eval copies of the
software (or demo boxes of Firewall / AV products) and test them and
determine whether they fit your environment. Often or not, the independent
reports are sponsored by vendors. I may be wrong on this, and I wish you the
best of luck in finding some truly independent reports on the products you
are researching.

Regards,

 

Prashant Meswani, CEH

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Alexis Villagra - VILSOL LatinAmerica [mailto:alexis () vilsol com] 
Sent: 30 June 2005 02:07
To: security-basics
Subject: ANTIVIRUS and FIREWALL leaders?

Dear List,

Where can we get information about the best ANTIVIRUS and FIREWALLs in the
market, not the ones with most marketing, the ones with the best feautures.
I mean I would like to have independent reports, also comes the question
which reports are independent that we can trust, as you know many vendors
pay to be evaluated to some of these companies that do research and
publications.
I hope not to disturb anybody, but i really would like to know with your
help which vendors offer the best technologies, i am very interested to have
reports that validate and offer a ranking for ANTIVIRUS & FIREWALL vendors.

As a list of people who share knowledge and technology I think that this
information could be very helpful for all of us but I want to emphatize that
we must be very careful to validate that reports and companies that create
these are 100% independent or at least near that.

Best regards,
Alexis Villagra