Re: Distributed Firewall

["Marcelo Olguin" <molguin () novared cl>]

I known that Checkpoint FW  has this funcionality, with the Secure 
Client application which is installed in the  user's workstation and 
download the security polices from the firewall. http://www.checkpoint.com

bye.

Kendric wrote:

> Hi, just wondering if any of you guys heard of this concept of distributed
> firewall? I have done some research on it and found it to be quite a
> wonderful concept into bringing the firewall platform to each client/server
> end with a central management policy. In other words, it is like having a
> personal firewall on each individual machine, but centrally managed by a
> remote management console. In this way, we will not have to put any trust
> even on the machines on the intranet. Any comments?
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