Re: Firewalls - ITSEC Rating?

From: Paul Emerson (paulat_private)
Date: Thu Feb 03 2000 - 21:53:31 PST

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    The value of ITSEC is simply marketing from the vendor's perspective. 
    Having your firewall ITSEC certified opens doors for sales, since it 
    is a CYA situation for the buyer.
    
    ITSEC is really quite pitiful. For example FW-1 was evaluated and 
    passed E-3, but the GUI was not included with the target.  So I guess 
    in order to use FW-1 as evaluated the GUI should not be used.
    
    Paul Emerson
    
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