EnGarde walked away with our Editor's Choice award thanks to the depth of its security strategy, which covers nearly all the bases. Everything from the low-level mechanisms (binary integrity checking and stack protection) to high-level usability issues (including an excellent patching interface) demonstrate the serious effort the Guardian Digital crew has invested in EnGarde. . . .
EnGarde walked away with our Editor's Choice award thanks to the depth of its security strategy, which covers nearly all the bases. Everything from the low-level mechanisms (binary integrity checking and stack protection) to high-level usability issues (including an excellent patching interface) demonstrate the serious effort the Guardian Digital crew has invested in EnGarde.

ESL's Guardian Digital Secure Network provides a textbook example of an ideal patching interface--automatic notification, simplified downloading and straightforward descriptions are all included. We were up to current patch levels in a matter of minutes.

EnGarde holds up well in the line of fire, escaping without a scratch on the ptrace vulnerability. In fact, the company was able to say in an advisory: "Please note that EnGarde Secure Linux does not ship with the 'newgrp' utility, nor does it ship with any other setuid/setgid executables, which can be used to exploit this bug. Thus, EnGarde Secure Linux is not vulnerable to the ptrace flaw."

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