Re: [pfSense Support] Certified by ICSA Labs

2006-03-06 Thread Chris Buechler

Wesley K. Joyce wrote:
expensive 
  


Indeed, but it's a requirement for some environments. 

the opportunity to get certified isn't extremely unlikely, actually.  
It's not very likely, but not unimaginable.  There was an opportunity 
for m0n0wall to get certified, completely at the cost of one business 
that was going to put out a huge deployment in many government agencies 
somewhere in Europe.  They required ICSA certification, but there was 
more than enough money in the project to get and keep m0n0wall 
certified.  None of the developers responded to assist, though...  so it 
didn't happen. 

I assure you if a similar opportunity came up here post-1.0, it would 
definitely happen. 



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RE: [pfSense Support] Certified by ICSA Labs

2006-03-04 Thread Wesley K. Joyce
expensive 



From: Chris Buechler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Fri 3/3/2006 11:35 AM
To: support@pfsense.com
Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Certified by ICSA Labs



Alejandro Lengua wrote:
 The problem would be, how much does ICSA Labs charge for their certification
 and how the project could raise money to afford it.

  

$25K USD per year per certification.  i.e. if you want a certified
firewall, and IPsec, then it's $50K.  Add another $25K for each
additional.

So to the original poster, sure, if you will pony up the $25K every
year, plus another, say, $10K a year to split between the people
involved in the process, we'll be glad to do it.

It's something we've talked about, and something we would like to do,
it's just not likely to become a reality for financial reasons.



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Re: [pfSense Support] Certified by ICSA Labs

2006-03-03 Thread Chris Buechler

Alejandro Lengua wrote:

The problem would be, how much does ICSA Labs charge for their certification
and how the project could raise money to afford it.

  


$25K USD per year per certification.  i.e. if you want a certified 
firewall, and IPsec, then it's $50K.  Add another $25K for each 
additional. 

So to the original poster, sure, if you will pony up the $25K every 
year, plus another, say, $10K a year to split between the people 
involved in the process, we'll be glad to do it. 

It's something we've talked about, and something we would like to do, 
it's just not likely to become a reality for financial reasons. 




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