Frank Bax wrote:
At 11:42 AM 8/26/05, James Wright wrote:
James Knott wrote:
Interesting. I assume it's Linux based. Perhaps you just have to renew the license anually. Or is it just a promotion.
I have my own SuSE 9.1 based firewall, which works well and includes a VPN. I wonder what they offer beyond what SuSE (or other distro) is capable of? How does there secure Linux compare with the one from NSA? Well, they have a comparison here: http://firewall.trustix.com/small/comparisons.html The comparison chart claims that it is a security hardened server OS. There aren't details about it though.
A company claiming "100% water tight security protects your network" can't be taken seriously.
Yep. I don't let water anywhere near my computers. ;-) However, when someone makes claims, without offering proof, I get suspicious. As I recall, the NSA SELinux is configured & audited for maximum security, as is one of the BSDs (OpenBSD?). But even then a simple misconfiguration can always blow away the security. Also, there's no way anyone can guarantee 100% security, for the simple reason that they have no way of knowing all possible exploits. They can only use practices that impede potential vulnerabilities.