Jon wrote:
>Data General's B2/E4 DG/UX is currently in evaluation at B2 in the US and
>E4 (ITSEC) in Europe. We are doing a Red Book B2 eval with IP in a
>heterogeneous environment (mixed sets of systems connected - trusted and
>untrusted). This is a full commercial OS (Unix) with built in firewall,
>virus prevention, SMP, failover, RAID disk and tape, etc. The next release
>(this fall) has transparent proxies and address translation (built in and
>in the evaluation). NSA will be using it for their classified server
>connected to the Internet (with Web server).
We are currently configuring this OS (DG-UX 4.11 B2) as our sorpporate
firewall.
Using the B2 DSO from DG and Cybershield from BDM International.
The system is being used as a firewall although it offers many features
that we
are not using if we were in a Trusted/Untrusted environment.
As Jon wrote the OS and Networking are currently being evaluated at B2
and the X11 product at B1.
So far we have been pleased with the performance and operation. As of
this time, it has undergone
one independent intrusion test. Management is pleased and plans are to
begin a trial roll-out to
a group of corporate users.
We are using the BDM authenticated http and ftp proxies for most of our
services. The proxies
provide for virus checking and authentication. The users never login in
to the firewall.
All in all, I have been pleased with the level of support from both DG
and BDM.
Phil Wylie
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