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2X LoadBalancer for Terminal Services / Citrix Listing updated: September 27, 2007

Since Microsoft Terminal Services Servers support many users, it's important to ensure that each Terminal Server is fully redundant and that the load is distributed between servers ensuring optimal service quality for users. 2X LoadBalancer for Terminal Services / Citrix allows you to load balance RDP/ICA sessions between Terminal Servers and provide fault tolerance. In addition, if you are allowing users to login from the internet, you can hide the backend terminal services from the internet and just expose one single gateway machine - thereby increasing security of your Terminal Servers.

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  • Company: 2X Software Ltd.
  • URL: www.2x.com
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  • Users' Rating: 4.83 [6 votes] - Vote
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2X SecureRDP for Windows Terminal Services Listing updated: October 28, 2005

2X SecureRDP for Windows Terminal Services increases the security of your terminal servers by accepting or denying incoming RDP connections by IP, Mac address, computer name, client version or based on time of day. This way the logon screen will only be displayed if the connection is established from particular IPs or from particular machines. Computers that do not meet the filter restrictions don't get to see the logon screen and won't get to try a brute force logon! 2X SecureRDP for Windows Terminal Services is a tool to secure remote windows web servers which you are managing via Terminal services - Remote administration.

2X SecureRDP for Windows Terminal Services works with Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 Terminal Services and does not require a client component. Servers running either in Remote Administration or Application Server mode are supported.
  • Company: 2X Software Ltd.
  • URL: www.2x.com
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  • Price: Free
  • Users' Rating: 4.91 [11 votes] - Vote
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AppSense Application Manager Listing updated: September 15, 2005

AppSense Application Manager provides control over many other types of application content, including ActiveX, Screen Savers, VBScripts, Batch files, Windows Installer packages and Registry configuration files. Self-extracting zip archives are safely extracted using the built-in Zip Extractor.

Another common area of concern for Administrators is licensing and controlling which applications users have access to. AppSense Application Manager can limit the users or groups of users who have permission to run applications and limits can be placed on the number of application instances running, the timing of when users run a program and for how long.
  • Company: AppSense
  • URL: www.appsense.com
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  • Users' Rating: 3.64 [11 votes] - Vote
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Barracuda SSL VPN Listing updated: December 3, 2010

The Barracuda SSL VPN is an integrated hardware and software solution enabling secure, clientless remote access to internal network resources from any Web browser. Designed for remote employees and road warriors, the Barracuda SSL VPN provides comprehensive control over file systems and Web-based applications requiring external access. The Barracuda SSL VPN integrates with third-party authentication mechanisms to control user access levels and provides single sign-on.

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  • Company: Barracuda Networks Inc.
  • URL: www.barracudanetworks.com
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  • Price: $380
  • Users' Rating: 4.62 [16 votes] - Vote
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Blink for Citrix's Secure Gateway Listing updated: July 5, 2006

Blink for Secure Gateway integrates multiple proven security technologies to guard Citrix Access Suite environments against attacks - shielding the application stack (Secure Gateway, IIS and Windows) from previously undetected vulnerabilities, making server assets more resistant to attacks, even when patches aren?t available or installed. Additionally, local firewall and vulnerability assessment technologies ensure gateway environments meet user-defined policy guidelines. As an added benefit, eEye includes a pre-defined policy to ensure your Access Gateway deployments meet best practices for ensuring availability.
  • Company: eEye Digital Security
  • URL: www.eeye.com
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  • Price: $2995
  • Users' Rating: 2.8 [5 votes] - Vote
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Block-IT Listing updated: October 17, 2005

Block-IT (Application Access Control) ensures that no user can ever gain access to unauthorized (local- or network-resident) program executables regardless of their security privileges or file system rights. Using its built-in hashing algorithm, Block-IT guards against application spoofing by verifying the authenticity of each authorized application at launch time. Multiple hashes per application are allowed in a multi-server farm in order to support the piece-meal update or upgrade of a given application or O/S.

Block-IT also features a scheduler to ensure that users can only execute authorized applications within a specified schedule (time-of-day and days-of-week.) Shortly before terminating a schedule-bound application, Block-IT notifies the user of the impending termination, thus giving them the opportunity to exit the application. Finally, it terminates the running application when the ending time is reached.
  • Company: Quest Software
  • URL: www.quest.com
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  • Users' Rating: 4 [4 votes] - Vote
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Listing updated: September 14, 2005

BrsSuite is a database-based profile and user environment management product, and an application lockdown tool that can be used to restrict what applications users can run. The BrsSuite profile management component lets you configure different permissions for different users and stores the configuration in a centralized SQL database.
  • Company: FC Consult
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  • Users' Rating: 3 [2 votes] -
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BufferZone Enterprise Listing updated: April 30, 2007

BufferZone?s virtualization technology complements your existing security suite by creating an isolated zone, which separates the operating system and confidential data from unknown programs, downloads and files on each of your enterprise endpoints. Unlike anti-virus and anti-spyware software, BufferZone Enterprise requires no signature updates at all, while protecting each endpoint on your network against spyware and other types of malware - even threats that are new and not yet known. Moreover, with BufferZone Enterprise, your enterprise?s digital assets are immune from theft or damage by vulnerabilities from all sources, such as external (removable) media, Web browsing, P2P, email, instant messaging, network shares, and much more.
  • Company: TrustWare
  • URL: www.trustware.com
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  • Users' Rating: 3 [2 votes] - Vote
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Citrix Access Gateway Listing updated: October 16, 2007

Citrix Access Gateway is an SSL VPN that securely delivers any application with policy-based SmartAccess control. Users have secure access to the applications and data they need to be productive. Organizations can extend access to datacenter resources from outside the office while maintaining unprecedented control through SmartAccess policies.

Citrix?s SmartAccess technology allows administrators to control both access and actions based on both the user and the endpoint device. For example, a user may have full access (read, save locally, print, etc.) to a set of files when utilizing their office PC ? but may be restricted to ?read-only? access when connecting through an unrecognized ?kiosk? device. Similarly, if an employee tries to log into the corporate network via a home PC that does not have an active anti-virus update service that employee may not be able to access certain mission-critical systems.
  • Company: Citrix Systems
  • URL: www.citrix.com
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HOBLink Secure Listing updated: October 16, 2007

HOBLink Secure, the complete, platform-independent package for secure communication and authentication in TCP/IP networks, has been awarded the German IT Security Certificate. After a thorough examination process by an accredited and licensed evaluation facility, the German Federal Office for Information Security has awarded HOBLink Secure this certificate, confirming HOBLink Secure's conformance to the Common Criteria for IT Security Evaluation.

Based on Secure Socket Layer, V.3 (SSL3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS), HOBLink Secure employs the latest technology in creating and managing certificates and encryption keys.
  • Company: HOB
  • URL: www.hobsoft.com
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  • Users' Rating: 4.5 [2 votes] - Vote
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