[108191] in Cypherpunks
Re: [ISN] Network Turned Firewall (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Farber)
Mon Feb 8 11:06:11 1999
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 10:29:50 -0500
To: jei@zor.hut.fi, cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990208133658.27436A-100000@zor.hut.fi>
Reply-To: Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
If they have patented that idea, I would suggest that the work on the Overseer in the mid 70s that formed several PUBLISHED papers (by me and oithers) and a thesis would preclude the success of that patent
At 01:39 PM 2/8/99 +0200, jei@zor.hut.fi wrote:
>Amazing.
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 15:52:55 -0700 (MST)
>From: mea culpa <jericho@dimensional.com>
>To: InfoSec News <isn@repsec.com>
>Subject: [ISN] Network Turned Firewall
>
>
>http://www4.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2200208,00.html
>Network Turned Firewall
>By Charles Babcock
>February 3, 1999 10:14 AM ET
>
>There's a new security firm that would like to shut down your firewalls as
>a step toward increasing your protection from intruders.
>
>"Under our system, the network becomes the firewall," said Marketta
>Silvera, president and chief executive officer of Pilot Network Services.
>By imposing a watching and listening service over a company's wide area
>network (WAN) traffic, including its Internet traffic, Pilot engineers
>can watch for activity that signals someone probing to break into a server
>or other network device.
