Firewall options for Australia - which are the best?
Jason Romney (jromney@werple.mira.net.au)
Mon, 23 Oct 1995 01:22:17 +1000 (EST)
PC Week Online
October 9, 1995
CHECKPOINT HEATS UP FIREWALL OPTIONS
By Michael Moeller
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Firewall technology took a step forward last month with the release of
Checkpoint Software Technologies Inc.'s FireWall-1 Version 2.0.
FireWall-1 provides traditional security systems for corporations
attached to the Internet. The new release adds encryption capabilities
to allow a corporation to create "virtual private internets" between
itself and customers or business partners.
The new encryption technologies are based around an internally
developed algorithm called FW1-2, as well as RSA Data Security Inc.'s
data-encryption standard algorithm. The new version of FireWall-1 also
supports client authentication security to allow remote or mobile
users to dial in to the corporate network, according to officials at
Checkpoint, of Framingham, Mass.
"I wish it had been [in the first version of FireWall-1] because we
had to create the encryption implementation ourselves," said Jennifer
Lawton, CEO of NetDaemon Inc., a network consulting and outsourcing
company, in Woburn, Mass. "I would be real interested in looking at
this new version because then Checkpoint could handle the upgrading
and improvements to the technology rather than having to do it
ourselves."
Available now through resellers, FireWall-1 2.0 is priced starting at
$4,990, with the encryption module priced at $2,990.
As part of an agreement that was announced at NetWorld+Interop last
month, FireWall-1 is also available through Hewlett-Packard Co.
distributors and resellers.
Checkpoint can be reached at (800) 429-4391.
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