Top 10 VMware Virtual Appliances for Security
I have reviewed several appliances in the Secure Content and Threat Management and Identity, Access and Vulnerability Managament categories of the VMware Appliance Marketplace to identify the Top 20 appliances. Here are the steps I followed for selecting the appliances listed below:
- I have relied on the Average customer Rating, expressed as a 5 star, or a 4 star, etc., rating (you may wish to review my analysis of VMware’s ratings)
- I discarded all virtual appliances that solely package OS distributions, primarily, ubuntu, fedora, etc. My rationale is that an OS by itself provides low business value to an IT Administrator. While an IT administrator can use these just as if they were using a ghost image, these virtual appliances neither package applications in a usable form, nor simplify the task of installing and configuring the applications that provide business value. Besides, the base OS virtual appliances are available in a category by themselves
- I also discarded several appliances rated 4 star or less, which are present in the directory but have either broken or stubbed out download links. They seem to have been retained in the directory to beef up the appliance count, however, they are not useful to the community.
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S. No. |
Virtual Appliance |
What is it used for? |
Download Link |
Average Customer Rating |
Number of Reviews |
Pricing |
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1 |
Protects Internal Networks from Malicious Traffic in Demanding Virtual Environments |
5 |
0 |
Free trial with registration |
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2 |
Web application firewall with automated adaptive learning and HTTP load balancing |
5 |
0 |
Free Trial, USD 2950 per subscription |
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Web application firewall with automated adaptive learning, load balancing and XML support. PCI DSS and OWASP Top Ten compliant |
Free Trial, USD 5950 per subscription |
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3 |
The only VTL solution that improves the quality and efficiency of tape backup in virtual enviroments. |
5 |
0 |
Registration 30 day trial |
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4 |
The WiKID Strong Authentication Enterprise Edition VMware 3.3.8. Support for Google SSO/SAML has been added |
5 |
0 |
USD 24 per user |
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5 |
1st Purpose-Built Virtual Firewall |
5 |
0 |
Free trial with registration |
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6 |
HyTrust Appliance provides a single point of control for hypervisor configuration, compliance, and access management. |
5 |
0 |
Free |
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7 |
Total Web Security software for any organisation |
5 |
0 |
Free Trail, USD 5 per |
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8 |
Provides data integrity protection by centralizing and preserving sensitive data,making it tamper-evident at the highest detail. |
5 |
0 |
Free Trial, EUR 10,000 |
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9 |
AEP Netilla SSL VPN is a secure application access gateway that enables secure, web browser access to a range of business apps. |
5 |
0 |
Free trial, USD 1 |
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10 |
Comprehensive email security gateway reduces TCO with immediate protection from spam, phishing, malware and data leaks |
5 |
0 |
Free Trial, USD 19.67 per user |
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11 |
InterScan Web Security Virtual Appliance applies real-time web reputation, flexible content scanning and powerful URL filtering. |
5 |
0 |
Free Trial, USD 13.45 per user |
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12 |
BackTrack is a penetration testing oriented live CD and is the result of the merger of WHAX and Auditor. |
4.5 |
0 |
Free |
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13 |
Symantec Brightmail™ Gateway Virtual Edition (formerly Mail Security 8300) |
Inbound and outbound messaging security, antispam and antivirus protection, advanced content filtering, and data loss prevention |
4.5 |
0 |
Free Trail, USD 15 per user |
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14 |
Internet Privacy Appliance : Encrypts your Internet traffic, hides your IP address, and is easy to setup. |
4.5 |
0 |
Free |
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15 |
*SpamTitan allows you create a Email Security Appliance for your Gateway |
4.5 |
0 |
Free hosted trial, USD 395 per subscription |
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16 |
gateProtect solutions combine state of the art security and network features such as firewalls, bridging, VLAN, single sign-on, traffic shaping, QoS, IPSec/SSL (X.509), IDS/IPS, web filters, virus filters, real-time spam detection and HTTPS proxy in one system |
4.5 |
0 |
Free |
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17 |
Secure File Transfer Virtual Appliance – secure, economical and easy to use secure file transfer for today’s global enterprises |
4.5 |
13 |
Free hosted trial |
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18 |
Best-of-breed open source network security applications with supporting scripts and a web-based front-end management interface. |
4.0 |
0 |
Free |
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19 |
LogLogic Security Change Manager- Great for Firewall Coversions! |
Streamline the design and deployment of network security rules for firewalls, routers, switches, VPN, and IPS’s. |
4.0 |
0 |
Free |
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20 |
Proven Security for Virtual Environments |
4.0 |
0 |
Free Trial |
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