New firewall can be put nearly anywhere

Wellesley Hills, Mass. - Network-1 Security Solutions next week will unveil CyberwallPlus, a suite of NT-based firewalls that not only block and filter traffic from the Internet but can also run on desktops and departmental servers.

In addition to filtering IP traffic, CyberwallPlus can inspect proprietary protocols, such as IPX and AppleTalk. It can also encrypt traffic using the Data Encryption Standard, among other means.

Hunt Valley, Md.-based Tessco Technologies has been beta-testing CyberwallPlus for a few months, and has found it easy to set up. "It has a fairly sophisticated reporting mechanism that tells me when someone is trying to break into the network," says Mike Waldenberger, a technical services engineer at Tessco. "It handles the DECnet protocol, which is something hard to find in firewalls."

According to Network-1 chief technology officer Bill Hancock, CyberwallPlus was designed to prevent known service attacks against NT servers, Microsoft Proxy Server and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) servers. "If I've knocked out your LDAP server, I've knocked out your network," he notes.

The firewall line also boasts intrusion-detection functions so that suspicious events can be reported back to a central console.

Expected to ship next month, CyberwallPlus starts at $1,995, with enterprisewide use likely to cost about $20,000.

Network-1 Security Solutions: (781) 239-8280

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