Re: Application Intelligent vs ALG

[ark () eltex net]

I was under the impression that "Application intelligence" does some
protocol detection heuristics like IDS do, thus allowing not hardwiring
protocols to port numbers, i.e. if someone is running ICQ or HTTP over
some port opened for proprietary application, it is able to detect and
stop it. Am i wrong?

On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 09:18:19AM -0400, Frederick M Avolio wrote:
> A fancy proxy.
>
> Three different people from Check Point wrote me in response to a recent 
> column of mine, basically asking me if I had heard of this new feature.
>
> I replied with a brief history. In short: Firewall-1 comes on the scene, 
> most FW1 users implement it with modules from the TIS FWTK (for adding user 
> authentication to FTP and TELNET), Check Point's marketing says proxies are 
> old technology, stateful inspection is the next generation of firewall 
> technology (before the term became a product name), people persisted in 
> using proxies, CP added "security servers" (proxies by another name), and 
> now this.
>
> I asked them, how is this different from application gateways (security 
> proxies). I applaud the addition of them (like there are other hybrid 
> firewalls). But none of the three folks from CP replied to me.
>
> I have no agenda, except the truth. (Boy, is this guy noble, or what? :-)) 
> I'd like to know the answer to this: How this is different than application 
> gateways (if it is), and why is it better than Sidewinder, Firebox, Raptor, 
> et al.
>
>
> Fred
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