Can Your Firewall Take the Heat?

NCSA runs a certification program that tests firewall productsagainst a standardized suite of attacks while still letting authorized usersaccomplish significant business functions. NCSA certification provides anobjective, practical way for you to evaluate the level of security a firewallprovides.

At press time, four of the Windows NT firewall vendors--CheckPoint SoftwareTechnologies, Raptor Systems, Network-1, and Digital Equipment--had NCSACertified firewall products (they'd passed the NCSA Version 1.0 tests). However,according to Jeff Lolly of NCSA, only Digital's and Raptor's NT firewall producthad been tested separately from the non-NT versions. Digital claims on its Website to be "the world's first and only NCSA Certified NT Firewall." Infact, Digital appears to be one of two such vendors. NCSA posts informationabout firewall-testing procedures and a current list of certified products onits Web site at www.ncsa.com.