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January 18, 2007 | Comments: (0)
Call for GreenBorder Beta Testers
GreenBorder is calling for Beta testers for their 3.0 product.
Bill Stout, GreenBorder employee and email friend recently wrote me about his company's call for beta testers. Here's his email:
(start of message)
Please also mention our call for beta testers to sign up for the GreenBorder Corporate 3.0 product, I've created a link here:
http://www.greenborder.com/registration/betasignup/infoworld.
The basic differences between the 2.7/2.8 product you reviewed previously and the 3.0 product is; IM is protected, only Outlook attachments are protected (users complained about protecting the message itself), the server is much more lightweight (runs on XP), and all the compatibility issues we learned in the Pro product have been applied, except it doesn't officially support FireFox (we use a BHO in IE to open in the proper environment, FireFox doesn't support BHOs). Naming may be confusing, the old corporate product was named 'GreenBorder Professional', the follow-on consumer product was named 'GreenBorder Pro', and the new corporate product is 'GreenBorder Corporate'.
Bill
(end of message)
I gave GreenBorder mixed reviews when I wrote about it a long time ago in InfoWorld (click here). It was among the first "sand box" products that I had covered to protect Internet Explorer traffic.
My overall opinion of sand box products in general has not changed since then, but since my initial review, the sand box vendors space has become a lot more crowded. Some people and companies swear by them.
My general feelings are that sand box products can provide a lot of malware protection value to many environments, especially if your current anti-malware defenses aren't doing the tricks against email worms and spyware, but all the sand box products that I've reviewed in the past could be easily circumvented by existing malware.
Bill Stout tells me that it is more difficult than ever for malware to "escape", but I haven't tested that theory myself, yet.
GreenBorder's call for beta testers is probably partial marketing, as much as it is a call for real beta testers, but if you're interested in a sand box product for IE/Outlook, etc., GreenBorder is one of the top contenders to experiment with.
Posted by Roger Grimes on January 18, 2007 01:11 AM
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We (GreenBorder) QA'd the product as much as we can, and we'd like to see how the updated product behaves in environments outside our QA lab and our own production network. A handful of companies are running the beta and we'd like more beta testing. The testers don't have to be prospective customers or have a budget, we just want the results. The only restriction is that 'competitors' not beta the product, however I'm sure they can get a hold of our betas as easily as we can get theirs.
Reading my quoted text, it's easy to see why I don't work in the marketing department. Marketing also noticed my lameness at forming sentences, and (in a few separate emails), sent me the text below:
"GreenBorder's patented technology brings a new approach to online security. It creates a 'virtual session' within users' PC that combines application virtualization with extensive security to uniquely protect for users' Internet Web, IM, and email activities automatically and transparently.
GreenBorder insulates files, data, PC internals, and corporate networks from users' Internet browsing, instant messaging, and use of files received via IM, Outlook, the Web, and even USB sticks. No matter what websites users visit, what links they click, or what documents, files, music or video from the Internet they open nothing can get in, steal files, spy on their online transactions, or attack their PC and the network behind it.
GreenBorder Corporate has all the features of GreenBorder Pro plus:
o IM protection, protection of internal networks, Outlook attachment protection
o Centralized management
Brings the full feature set of GreenBorder Pro -- including Privacy Zone for online transaction protection, GreenBorder Protection for any file (e.g., can protect things received via USB sticks), activity monitor for watching what's protected, and very broad compatibility. Firefox support will be coming in a follow-on release.
o Adds protection of IM clients -- same level of protection provided to browsing
o Optimizes the protection for Outlook attachments -- without changing appearance of HTML messages
o Makes the management server even to install and use
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