Forwarded From: "Spencer, Will" <wspencert_private> [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 majordomot_private with "subscribe isn". Today's ISN Sponsor: Repent Security Incorporated [www.repsec.com]
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