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Review: eEye Digital Security's Blink Professional

Review of eEye Digital Security's Blink Professional
by Steve Mallard (11,585 pts )
Published on Jun 30, 2009
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Need a well-rounded security solution? With a firewall, spyware, malware, intrusion prevention, vulnerability assessment and system protection this tool becomes an invaluable protection asset in your network. eEye Digital Security is an excellent choice for workstation protection.

Blink Professional

eEye Digital Security’s Blink Professional is a small profile program that really delivers. Blink Professional replaces multiple security agents, helping to protecting against known exploits and zero day attacks. eEye Digital Security’s Blink Professional is a well rounded security tool that is inexpensive and well worth the money. With Firewall, Spyware, Malware, Intrusion Prevention, Vulnerability Assessment and System Protection this tool becomes an invaluable protection asset in your network.

InstallationRating Excellent

Blink Professional is simple to install, has a small profile of less than 80mb. If services or processes are in use, the program will request an expected reboot of Windows to activate it’s full protection. The program is compatible with all modern versions of Windows and installed on Vista without any errors. Licensing and customer login is a snap.

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User InterfaceRating Excellent

eEye Digital Security’s user interface is well planned and easy to use. Outlined with drop downs, each independent feature gives a clear indication of the current status of the five areas of protection. Clear green check marks indicate an active status on protected components, giving the end user a visual aid in seeing the immediate areas of protection. With an interface using ‘back’ and ‘forward’ buttons, navigation is a easy. Many full featured products have interfaces that are hard to navigate and get the end user lost. With eEye Digital Security Blink Professional, the enduser can find any setting by clicking no more than three times!

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Features - Firewall - IDSRating Excellent

The firewall component when enabled, allows for the customization of traffic flowing in and out of your workstation. With options that control system wide rules, the firewall can be used to supplement any external hardware firewalls. Logging and alerting is available for analysis and making the end user aware of what traffic is trying to get in. With application specific rules, users can control how applications access your network or the internet. With the advanced options, common ports and applications can be given access assisting the user with decisions about protecting their network. With application traffic, Ask / Allow / Deny options allow the user to decide how individual traffic is handled. This great feature is an exceptional add- on to your internal windows firewall and your hardware firewall.

Helping to further protect users, the intrusion prevention component adds a smart technology that monitors network activities for malicious behavior. This software reacts in real-time to prevent these malicious activities. An added option is an advanced technology that helps to prevent ID Theft..

Steve Mallard (11,585 pts )

Steve Mallard has over twenty years of information technology experience in education, government, logistics, manufacturing and the medical field, the author offers some of the best and most concise information... read more

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