New security tools protect virtual machines

5-product test reveals differences between Reflex, Catbird, Beyond Trust, Hytrust and Trend Micro

By David Strom, Network World | Virtualization, Beyond Trust, Catbird

Catbird's classic UI dashboard showing operating risk index, alerts and a weekly flow summary

Catbird has a deep set of security policies and practices that are built on the stalwarts of the physical world: Snort's intrusion detection and Saint's vulnerability scanner. The policy creation process is somewhat complex, but it is nothing that a regular firewall admin couldn't learn within a few hours.

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