Re: Air gap technologies

[Frederick M Avolio <fred () avolio com>]

As I said ages ago when this came up before... I have reviewed the 
technology. I like it. I am not a vendor. I call it an Air Gap. So, I 
disagree with your analysis that it is a distortion of the truth. It is not 
sneaker-net. I have no problem calling it an air gap. (I do have a problem 
with one of their competitors, who has no hardware disconnect as far as I 
can tell and just has software acting as the gap... That one *is* a proxy 
firewall as far as I can tell from their lit.


Fred
DISCLOSURE -- I've stated this before. I've taken Whale's money at times 
for consulting services. I'm not their hired gun. I'm not an employee. I am 
not a number... I am a free man (whoops... over did it there). I like their 
product and I think there is a place for it.

At 12:26 AM 1/17/01 -0800, Crispin Cowan wrote:
> "Stiennon,Richard" wrote:
>
> > I agree with your analysis Avi. Whale is a strong application firewall with
> > granular control over what gets through. The physical air-gap stuff is not
> > as important as the GUI implementation they have developed.
>
> None the less, I still have a serious problem with a vendor who is willing to
> distort the truth to the extent that they refer to that device as an "air
> gap."  Perhaps I mis-spoke my self in last September's debate, but my core
> issue with Whale has always been the gross distortion in how they describe the
> product.  I always thought it sounded like a reasonable design for an
> application proxy firewall; my problem is that they won't 'fess up to that
> being all that it is.
>
> I'm really heartened to hear that Avi likes their design.  The product would
> be truly scary if their engineering were as slip-shod as their marketing.
>
> Crispin
>
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