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New firewall can be put nearly anywhere,
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By Ellen Messmer
Network World Fusion, 01/15/99
Multiprotocol firewall can reside on desktop, server or at Internet
periphery.
Wellesley Hills, Mass. - Network-1 Security Solutions next week will
unveil CyberwallPlus, a suite of NT-based firewalls that not only block
and filter traffic from the Internet but can also run on desktops and
departmental servers.
In addition to filtering IP traffic, CyberwallPlus can inspect proprietary
protocols, such as IPX and AppleTalk. It can also encrypt traffic using
the Data Encryption Standard, among other means.
Hunt Valley, Md.-based Tessco Technologies has been beta-testing
CyberwallPlus for a few months, and has found it easy to set up. "It has a
fairly sophisticated reporting mechanism that tells me when someone is
trying to break into the network," says Mike Waldenberger, a technical
services engineer at Tessco.
"It handles the DECnet protocol, which is something hard to find in
firewalls."
According to Network-1 chief technology officer Bill Hancock,
CyberwallPlus was designed to prevent known service attacks against NT
servers, Microsoft Proxy Server and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
(LDAP) servers. "If I've knocked out your LDAP server, I've knocked out
your network," he notes.
The firewall line also boasts intrusion-detection functions so that
suspicious events can be reported back to a central console.
Expected to ship next month, CyberwallPlus starts at $1,995, with
enterprisewide use likely to cost about $20,000.
Network-1 Security Solutions: (781) 239-8280
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Received on Thu Mar 11 17:03:23 1999