Hi ISC.

You are right, it's mostly best to go with products that focus on one type of expertice and I'm sorry if I offended you and other people with my earlier post.

Originally posted by ISC
Mical


I will honest with you. I represent a competing product of PGP. We don't offer all the bells and whistles (E.g. firewall), but I am a little confused with your point. First of all, Personally when you deal with Security, my personal opinion is to go with products that focus on one type of expertise. This way all of their efforts are focused in one area. Most importantly, why would you suggest a product that is up for sale by the vendor and direction of the product is unknown? I wouldn't be calling you out if the software is free, but we all know it is fairly expensive.

If you are looking for a firewall. There are better ones out their that are free.
In my opinion everyone should have the opurtunity to know of all competing products both free aswell as comercial products. In that way everybody can choose what suits them best.

I'm sorry that I mentioned aditional security products in a forum for firewalls. I can only tell that I'm satisfied with PGPfire as a personal firewall. I also have to say that I would not trust a personal firewall at 100%. But as a second way of defence I would recomend to have a personal firewall or another port-filtering software.

I have a linux box as gateway and firewall and on my internal computers personal firewalls. And that's what I would recomend for everyone who has a old box to use as a firewall and gateway.

But the opinions are many and it's nice to hear them here on AO :-).