Marcus, as always your wit is fine tuned...;-]
In fairness to Microsoft, the Catapult download includes over 600kb of HTML
documentation explaining, in more detail than most would expect, about how
it, and the Remote Winsock Service, work.
The marketing dribble in the press release is definitely targeted at
non-techno Purchasing Managers, certainly not security folks.
Whether or not it actually represents a "new age" in Firewalls is going to
be completely dependent on its actually security, and its cost;
- First, it has to work according to the documentation, if it doesn't, or
can't be proven, then it should be spurned like any other half-baked piece
of code.
- If its priced competitively with other products (like Raptor or
Firewall-1), then I doubt it will be broadly accepted, people will just
continue to buy their complete package from security companies. OTOH, if
its cheap, then it may be the foundation on which other products are added.
This could represent something new, and significant. Particularly if you
get wide acceptance of PPTP.
Anyway, back to my testing...;-]
Cheers,
Russ
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