As an aside, isn't the Firewall on NT just a port to NT or is it written
especially to integrate with NT?
-----Original Message-----
From: gill [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 1999 4:21 PM
To: Firewalls list
Subject: Why not FireWall-1 on NT?
CheckPoint's FireWall-1 is sold to run on the following platforms:
HP-UX 10.x
AIX 4.2.1 and 4.3.0
Solaris 2.5 and higher
Windows NT Server 4.x Service Pack 3.01 (Intel-based only)
It has been my experience that the majority are installed on Solaris
and NT
boxes.
My question for this discussion is this: why would CheckPoint take
FireWall-1 to NT? It seems that they are the commercial software
firewall
leaders in the marketplace. Why would they risk jeopardizing their
product
and their reputation by selling a product to be built on top of an
OS that
isn't (or can't be made to be) secure?
This reasoning does not lead me to believe that the NT OS is an
inherently
secure one, but it does lead me to believe even more strongly that
the NT OS
*can* be made secure and that the real important factor is the
installation
and administration ... a point that has been made several times
through the
course of this discussion.
--gill
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