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Technology Stocks : CyberGuard Corp. (CYBG) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Patrese who wrote (1662)	6/8/1998 6:10:00 PM
From: jas singh MD	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2616

Good afternoon everyone, Thanks to Geof, I've got my hands on the CYBG article that appears in the June issue of SC Magazine. Here are some portions of the article: "Cyberguard Corporation is one of the market leaders in the firewall industry with its UNIX based Cyberguard firewall, one of the few firewalls to achieve an ITSec E3 classification. With the increasing popularity of the NT server platform, however, the company has now launched Cyberguard Firewall for Windows NT...." "Cyberguard does not stop at pure firewall activities either. Advanced smart proxies provide load balancing and generic proxy writing capabilities, and there are fully integrated anti-virus scanner and content filtering options available. The latter is designed to examine the content of network connections and control the actions or information travelling through the firewall...no more surfing PLAYBOY.COM on company time." *****"One of the criticisms often leveled at NT based firewalls is the possible inherent insecurity of the underlying operating systems. Cyberguard has neatly dispatched this objection by including something called Secureguard with the NT firewall. Acting like a wrapper around the NT operating system, Secureguard provides environment hardening, a watchdog service, a packet filtering interceptor and full auditing. The packet filtering engine is actually inserted in the network stack between the MAC and Network layers, thus preventing suspect packets from ever getting near the NT OS itself. IN THIS WAY, SECUREGUARD PROTECTS AGAINST ALL KOWN AND EVEN HITHERTO UNKNOWN, WINDOWS SECURITY ISSUES."**** "Auditing and reporting capabilities of Cyberguard are amongst the best I have seen." ***"WITH A COMBINATION OF ALL THREE TYPES OF FIREWALL ARCHITECTURE; NT ENVIRONMENT HARDENING, A WIDE RANGE OF PROXIES AND INTUITIVE CENTRALIZED MANAGEMENT CAPABILITIES, CYBERGUARD IS ONE OF THE BEST FIREWALLS WE HAVE SEEN. AT THIS PRICE TOO, IT WILL LEAVE THE COMPETITION CHOCKING IN THE DUST."**** Let's not forget that the NT segment makes up about 60 percent of the Firewall market! Sincerely, Jas