Re: Leader in firewall product

[John Alsop <jalsop () borderware com>]

Rick Murphy wrote:
> At 10:27 AM 9/18/2000 +0200, =?iso-8859-2?Q?Magos=E1nyi_=C1rp=E1d?= wrote:
> > > > -Borderware
> > Borderware is just a hardened Gauntlet running on a hardened BSD.
> > (Okay, maybe it isnt gauntlet, but the feeling is the same).
> > It has an ST which claims it to be EAL4, but I cannot imagine
> > how could that ST got evaluated (not big issues, but I had
> > some formal problems with it). 
>
> Gauntlet was ITSEC evaluated at E3, which is roughly equivalent to EAL4.
> As you may know, it's all in how much security the ST provides ;-)
> There's lots of EAL3 firewalls around; some of them conform to the NSA
> firewall PP set, some don't.
>
> The company that built Borderware was once a Gauntlet reseller - that may
> explain the similarities between Borderware and Gauntlet.
>          -Rick

Just to set the record straight:

1.  BorderWare is EAL4 certified and has a strong Security Target (ST)
compared to other products that have been evaluated.  See
http://www.borderware.com/certfaq.html for more information. The
Security Target and Evaluation Report documents are both available for
public inspection at
http://www.itsec.gov.uk/cgi-bin/cplview.pl?docno=145 

2.  There is no connection whatsoever between BorderWare and Gauntlet. 
I'm not sure who Rick is referring to in his comment "The company that
built Borderware was once a Gauntlet reseller" but the statement is not
correct. The BorderWare Firewall was originally developed by Border
Network Technologies Inc. (of which I was the founding President), was
acquired by Secure Computing Corporation, and since 1998 has been a
product of BorderWare Technologies Inc. None of these companies to my
knowledge was ever a Gauntlet reseller.

--
John Alsop
President & CEO
Borderware Technologies Inc.
jalsop () borderware com
Tel: 905-804-1855 x223 Fax: 905-804-1865

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