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Re: Security stakes raised
From: cult hero <jericho () ATTRITION ORG>
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 17:25:46 -0600
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/00/06/05/000605hnmicrosecurity.xml
ORLANDO, FLA. - Microsoft is developing a security server that provides firewall and caching services for Windows 2000 users, a company official disclosed Monday at a briefing session during TechEd.
The product, not-yet-officially-announced and called the Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000, will soon be available in beta version for download at the company's Web site, said Keren Master, group program manager of the ISA Server team at Microsoft. The ISA Server could be announced as soon as Tuesday, Master suggested. "Watch for the news tomorrow," she said at the beginning of the briefing.
The ISA Server's firewall functionality will allow network managers to protect company data from outside intruders by controlling access and traffic, Master said. Its caching features will let companies store frequently accessed Web pages locally and thus increase Internet browsing speed for users, reduce traffic on the network, and lower workload stress on Web servers, she said.
The product also comes with a management and administration console and supports a variety of protocols, such as HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol), SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol), and streaming media, Master said. It also supports integration of VPNs (virtual private networks).
This is all extremely curious.. I can't tell if Microsoft is committed to security, or not. I wonder how their new SOAP protocol will work in conjunction with this too. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/periodic/period00/soap.htm Remote objects can give a program almost unlimited power over the Internet, but most firewalls block non-HTTP requests. SOAP, an XML-based protocol, gets around this limitation to provide intraprocess communication across machines. Currently, developers struggle to make their distributed applications work across the Internet when firewalls get in the way. So according to microsoft, things like firewalls "get in the way", yet they come up with their own security solutions that by their own argument, will likely "just get in the way". ISN is sponsored by SecurityFocus.com --- To unsubscribe email LISTSERV () SecurityFocus com with a message body of "SIGNOFF ISN".
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