by Curt Franklin

Test Center Tracker: Safe Surfing

analysis
Aug 28, 20071 min

Everyone wants to be secure while using the Internet, but tucking your enterprise into the warm, comfy blanket of safe surfing can be, at best, a significant challenge. James Borck looked at the Clearswift MIMEsweeper Web Appliance ENW10 and says that it does a job that's both reliable and broad, protecting web surfing, e-mail, IM, and ftp traffic from the various nasties that we've all come to know and loathe.

Everyone wants to be secure while using the Internet, but tucking your enterprise into the warm, comfy blanket of safe surfing can be, at best, a significant challenge. James Borck looked at the Clearswift MIMEsweeper Web Appliance ENW10 and says that it does a job that’s both reliable and broad, protecting web surfing, e-mail, IM, and ftp traffic from the various nasties that we’ve all come to know and loathe. It’s not a perfect tool, with HTTPS contents being among the packets that remain hidden to its probing, but it could be the sort of tool that makes on-line life a bit safer and happier for your enterprise.

If your on-line duties include blogging, you’ll want to check out Geeks in Paradise, where Brian Chee has been discovering the kinks, hiccups, and promise in Microsoft LiveWriter 64. Brian’s managed to get it working (with significant support from Microsoft), and likes the way it helps get more rich-media bloggy goodness up and on the web.