RE: Distributed Firewall

["Conor F. Sibley" <csibley () bbn com>]

Kendric,
Check out EFW from Secure Computing.  This solution allows you to centrally
manage a group of NICs as host-based-firewalls.  What makes the technology
standout is that since the firewall is on the firmware in NIC the user can't
mess with the rule set, even if they have physical access to the box.
http://www.securecomputing.com/index.cfm?skey=953
-Conor

-----Original Message-----
From: Kendric [mailto:Kendric () hotpop com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 10:12 AM
To: security-basics () lists securityfocus com
Subject: Distributed Firewall


Hi, just wondering if any of you guys heard of this concept of distributed
firewall? I have done some research on it and found it to be quite a
wonderful concept into bringing the firewall platform to each client/server
end with a central management policy. In other words, it is like having a
personal firewall on each individual machine, but centrally managed by a
remote management console. In this way, we will not have to put any trust
even on the machines on the intranet. Any comments?




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