Forwarded From: "Spencer, Will" <wspencer@DMWGroup.com>
[From today's Information Week Daily. Try to make sense of the
last paragraph. <smirk> - Will]
Network Associates Ships High-Performance Firewall
Network Associates yesterday starting shipping what it describes as
advanced firewall technology.
As part of its new Gauntlet Firewall 3.0, Network Associates is shipping
its patent-pending Adaptive Proxies firewall technology. The Adaptive
Proxies technology combines the speed of packet-filtering firewall
technology with the higher-level security of an application-proxy
firewall. The Adaptive Proxies architecture uses a flexible packet filter
to examine packets and direct packet flow based on the security levels
determined in advance by the firewall administrator, Network Associates
officials say.
Robert Brown, VP of Network Presence, a Los Angeles-based
computer-security firm that tested the Network Associates product, says
the Adaptive Proxy technology is 10 times faster than traditional
application-proxy firewalls. "And we don't have to choose between [the
speed of] a filter firewall and the security of application-proxy
firewalls," says Brown.
The Adaptive Proxies technology is currently available in Gauntlet
Firewall 3.0 for FTP; it will be available on Unix and the Windows NT
Versions of Gauntlet later this year.
--Mary E. Thyfault
-o-
Subscribe: mail majordomo@repsec.com with "subscribe isn".
Today's ISN Sponsor: Repent Security Incorporated [www.repsec.com]
Received on Thu Oct 15 08:18:06 1998