Re: Firewalls - ITSEC Rating?

[Paul Emerson <paul () gta com>]

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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