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The array of Internet firewalls continued to widen last week as Morning Star Technologies, Inc. and Sterling Software, Inc. offered new products to protect corporate networks.
Sterling Software's Connect:Firewall gateway and Morning Star's SecureConnect firewall router embody differing approaches to Internet security, but each boasts a reasonable price tag for the features it offers.
Connect:Firewall costs just under $19,000, while the Morning Star SecureConnect router costs up to $5,000. Internet provider Performance Systems International, Inc. last week said it bought $2 million worth of the SecureConnect firewalls in order to provide a leased firewall service for only $250 per month.
Connect:Firewall
Sterling Software's Connect:Firewall, a Unix-based application-layer firewall, permits incoming and outgoing access to the Internet by specific application and time limits as defined by a systems administrator. The firewall gateway can be set up to automatically encrypt TCP/IP packets between sites, maintain audit logs of connections and supply...