[3243] in WWW Security List Archive
DEC's Hyperbole vis-a-vis NCSA Cert
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Kennedy)
Tue Oct 15 04:07:23 1996
Date: 15 Oct 96 01:02:37 EDT
From: David Kennedy <76702.3557@compuserve.com>
To: Dev Kumar Roy <devroy@pluto.xko.dec.com>,
WWW Security List <WWW-SECURITY@ns2.rutgers.edu>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
>> Well as Jeff earlier pointed out,the firewall by DEC on NT
>> is the only one certified by NCSA so I guess the onus is on
>> you now to tell this group honestly how good it really
>> is.Further I am in no way associated with the sales of the
>> firewall I was just giving some people out here my honest
>> suggestion.
I sent you private mail because I didn't want to further pollute the list and
you're solution is to quote back my entire mail, with headers and sig to the
list. You might consider reading the headers in the future.
DEC's AltaVista is _NOT_ the only NT firewall that another part of my company
has certified. I just got off the phone with the chief of the lab and two are
certified and four more are are on the bench.
Please surf to http://www.ncsa.com/fpfs/fwindex.html for the latest on NCSA's
firewall certification. We think it has value. Apparently so do some of our
customers. It is not the last word in firewalls nor is it intended to be. YMMV
There are very few legends in our business. Donn Parker on the positive side.
"Good Times" on the bad. Neither DEC's firewalls nor NCSA are legends, and
perhaps neither ever will be.
Regards,
Dave Kennedy CISSP
Research Director
National Computer Security Association
