Security Event Management

AppRiver SecureTide

SecureTide, a hosted e-mail virus- and spam-prevention service, addresses concerns about productivity, corporate privacy and legal liability. Through keyword/phrase tracking, SecureTide identifies suspect e-mail messages, then blocks or redirects them. It can also ban EXE, MP3 and WAV files. LDAP mirroring automatically updates e-mail server address changes. Armed with 60 spam-filtering techniques, SecureTide offers multiple antivirus engines and proprietary work- , virus- and phishing-detection systems, as well as perimeter security to guard against denial-of-service attacks. $675 per year for 50 users. AppRiver, (850) 932-5338. www.appriver.com

dtSearch Corp. Network 7.0This text-search software instantly combs through more than a terabyte of text in less than a second, up from 8 GB in previous versions. Functioning across the desktop, network, Internet or intranet, Network 7.0 can span any number of indexes in a single search. Among its components is dtSearch Spider, which can follow links within a Web site or across multiple sites to retrieve integrated relevancy rankings and other displays of local and spidered content with highlighted hits. Other components include dtSearch Web for Web publishing and dtSearch Desktop for searches on PCs. Starts at $800 for five users, with multiuser discounts. dtSearch Corp., (800) 483-4637. www.dtSearch.com

Bluestream Database Software Corp. XStreamDB 3.2 Native XML Database

This native XML database is among the first commercial implementations of XQuery for XML databases, with extensions for updates and full-text searches. Version 3.2 performance improvements, achieved through precompiled XQuery functions, increased the speed of operations by 30 times in company tests. Security changes include the addition of group security functions, improved system table security and extended operation permissions. $3,000 per copy. Bluestream Database Software Corp., (604) 669-4469, Ext. 102. www.bluestream.com