Outbound/Inbound E-mail Monitoring

BEA Systems AquaLogic Data Services Platform 2.1

Designed to help application developers and SOA architects automate the service-enabling of their data to build composite software, such as Web applications and portals, this software now supports Microsoft Ado.Net. This lets users access and update data through the Ado.Net standard to multiple back-end data sources. The platform also supports the ALDSP 2.1 Audit Framework, which provides flexible auditing of events across sources for improved user-access control. The product's new operational monitoring support can capture metrics associated with data-services execution and let them be used for computing and tracking SLAs. $48,000 per CPU. www.bea.com

InBoxer Anti-Risk Appliance
Organizations and departments with 5,000 employees or fewer may want to check out a new outbound and inbound e-mail monitoring appliance designed to quickly analyze e-mail content and find risky messages with minimal IT involvement. The goals are to stop data loss, protect privacy and manage inappropriate employee behavior. The InBoxer Anti-Risk Appliance can be used to review previously processed messages, and users can create alarms in real time to identify messages as they are sent. The appliance plugs into the network; administrators simply log into the Web-based interface and see a dashboard that is updated in real-time using AJAX technologies. Starts at $5,000. www.inboxer.com

BlueCat Networks Proteus Enterprise IPAM
A new purpose-built secure and hardened IP address management appliance with built-in firewall, the Proetus IPAM lets organizations maintain an accurate and centrally managed network-addressing repository to reduce service delivery time; provide tiered administration for multiple views, zones, domains, and user classes; and offer efficient IP address allocation. The appliance also lets you gauge network utilization and track changes by zone, client, administrator and domain. It can translate topology and security requirements into DNS and DHCP configurations. Approximately $100,000 to $200,000 for distributed global environments. www.bluecatnetworks.com

NEC Secure Remote Management Services and NEC Secure Threat Management Services
These two new managed services offerings are designed for small-to-midsize businesses. They aim to improve network management and reliability while mitigating security risks. The new services assist admins as they assess, provision and integrate monitoring and proactive management and issue resolution for network and security events. NEC's Remote Management Service monitors each component of an organization's infrastructure, including devices, servers and applications, and lowers the total time to identify, isolate, notify and repair network problems. The enhanced Threat Management Services extend the security capabilities of customers' IT staffs through continuous monitoring of routers, security devices and Internet data traffic. Contact vendor for pricing. www.necus.com