Products
Discover the top cybersecurity products, carefully selected by our expert team through comprehensive analysis of the latest market trends and security tools. Our experts evaluate a wide range of solutions based on their effectiveness, reliability, ease of use, and ability to address cybersecurity challenges.
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John the Ripper: Password Cracking Tutorial and Review
John the Ripper is a popular password cracking tool that can be used to perform brute-force attacks using different encryption technologies and helpful wordlists. It’s often what pen-testers and ethical hackers use to find the true passwords behind hashes. This open-source package is free to download and has several modules for generating hashes from a…
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10 of the Best Patch Management Service Providers
Patch management services are becoming increasingly popular as the number of software and application vulnerabilities demanding fixes has overwhelmed IT and security teams. A major selling point of patch management services (and broader vulnerability management services) is that they reduce, if not eliminate, the time and attention required of IT personnel to update and patch…
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Top Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) Solutions
Unification has been a trend in IT for a long time, whether it’s communications, storage, data management or other technologies, and the trend hasn’t escaped cybersecurity either, as products converge into more comprehensive platforms like XDR or SASE. Endpoint technologies are the latest to join the unification craze, as endpoint security and mobile device management…
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Best Fraud Management Systems & Detection Tools
Fraud is one of the most prevalent vulnerabilities in the modern world. According to the FTC, over 28 million fraud reports were filed by consumers, resulting in more than $5.8 billion in reported fraud in 2021 alone. This is more than a 70% increase over 2020. Businesses are also at risk of fraud attempts. PwC’s…
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Top Network Detection & Response (NDR) Solutions
In the race to offer comprehensive cybersecurity solutions, the product known as network detection and response (NDR) is a standalone solution as well as a central component of XDR. Whereas older solutions like antivirus, firewalls, and endpoint detection and response (EDR) have long focused on threats at the network perimeter, the intent of NDR is…
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eSecurity Planet’s 2022 Cybersecurity Product Awards
The editors of eSecurity Planet have been giving advice to enterprise security buyers for more than a decade, and for the last five years we’ve been rating the top enterprise cybersecurity products, compiling roughly 50 lists to date on every product imaginable, from networks to endpoints and out to the cloud and beyond. This year,…
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Best Zero Trust Security Solutions
A presidential executive order mandating a zero trust strategy for federal agencies has raised the profile of the cybersecurity technology and prompted many non-government IT security managers to consider how they might adopt the three zero trust principles: “All entities are untrusted by default; least privilege access is enforced; and comprehensive security monitoring is implemented.”…
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8 Best Disaster Recovery Solutions
Disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity have been an essential aspect of enterprise IT for decades. Whether it’s earthquakes, floods, or power outages, DR is there to ensure operations can continue. But more recently, a lot more has been put on the DR plate. Ransomware has now emerged as one of the key reasons to…
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Our Top Security Vendor Methodology
We gather information from a range of IT industry sources for our top security products articles. Our most frequently used sources have been analyst firms Gartner and Forrester, testing organizations MITRE and Cyber Ratings, and user review sites Gartner Peer Reviews and G2. We interview company officials and scour data sheets. We interview users and…
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Top Security Tools & Software for SMBs
Small businesses generally don’t have time to dip into logs several times a day, monitor every aspect of endpoint security via complex management consoles, or jump from point product to point product to stay on top of security. Instead, they want a few good tools that do a lot for them and don’t require much…
