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Anyway, here's a link to something that indicates the lines aren't going away... they're just refocusing on selling the basic brick sets.
http://news.lugnet.com/lego/?n=625
It's based off of _a_ Secure Computing firewall. Nowhere does it say Gauntlet or Sidewinder. Both of those firewalls are layer 7 firewalls. IOW, this card does not do layer 7 evals of the communications, but does a more traditional packet filter, maybe even a stateful inspection bit.
Guys, everybody here is missing what really happened here. About a year and a half ago, NAI separated the command line product from the GUI desktop product. NAI discovered that people will pay a large chunk of change for scriptable, command line stuff, and that they almost had to give away the GUI version. When they dissolved the business unit last October, they decided to KEEP the command line version [the McAfee biz unit sells it now, for the same large chunk of $$$] but were trying to sell off the GUI version. Now, riddle me this, riddle me that, how do you sell the GUI version to another company when the command line version you're keeping USES THE SAME CODE?! That's why NAI couldn't sell it -- no company wanted to pick up a product that NAI was going to keep the core product to. I know because I worked for NAI in the PGP division.
It all is a big shame too. The last version, 7.1, was cool. It was stable, had an IPSEC client that could talk to pretty much any VPN gateway out there in addition to creating peer to peer IPSEC tunnels with other PGP clients as well. A mini firewall / IDS rounded it out. Frankly, companies just aren't paranoid enough to require that level of encryption yet. And until that happens, no commercial product is likely to succeed in this arena.
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For LEGO news, see lugnet.com Anyway, here's a link to something that indicates the lines aren't going away... they're just refocusing on selling the basic brick sets. http://news.lugnet.com/lego/?n=625
It's based off of _a_ Secure Computing firewall. Nowhere does it say Gauntlet or Sidewinder. Both of those firewalls are layer 7 firewalls. IOW, this card does not do layer 7 evals of the communications, but does a more traditional packet filter, maybe even a stateful inspection bit.
Guys, everybody here is missing what really happened here. About a year and a half ago, NAI separated the command line product from the GUI desktop product. NAI discovered that people will pay a large chunk of change for scriptable, command line stuff, and that they almost had to give away the GUI version. When they dissolved the business unit last October, they decided to KEEP the command line version [the McAfee biz unit sells it now, for the same large chunk of $$$] but were trying to sell off the GUI version. Now, riddle me this, riddle me that, how do you sell the GUI version to another company when the command line version you're keeping USES THE SAME CODE?! That's why NAI couldn't sell it -- no company wanted to pick up a product that NAI was going to keep the core product to. I know because I worked for NAI in the PGP division.
It all is a big shame too. The last version, 7.1, was cool. It was stable, had an IPSEC client that could talk to pretty much any VPN gateway out there in addition to creating peer to peer IPSEC tunnels with other PGP clients as well. A mini firewall / IDS rounded it out. Frankly, companies just aren't paranoid enough to require that level of encryption yet. And until that happens, no commercial product is likely to succeed in this arena.