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Re: Proverbial appliance vs software based firewall
From: Gary Flynn <flynngn () jmu edu>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 15:54:52 -0400
"Philip J. Koenig" wrote:
Now Checkpoint has commissioned a test that purports to show their product performs better than "dedicated hardware" from Cisco and Netscreen. I would like to have people's opinion on this test, in part because my observation of Tolly Group test reports is that they're one of these "guns for hire" that never writes a bad review for someone who pays them for one.
Gag. It wouldn't cause me so much heartburn if the title and intro specified they were only measuring raw VPN throughput. While the title of the report says: "Competitive Evaluation of Enterprise-Class Internet Security Solutions" the evaluation is pretty limited: "Engineers configured the DUT as a single-rule, allow-all firewall" -- Gary Flynn Security Engineer - Technical Services James Madison University Please R.U.N.S.A.F.E. http://www.jmu.edu/computing/runsafe _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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