RE: [fw-wiz] PocketPC firewalls

From: Laura Taylor (ltaylor_at_relevanttechnologies.com)
Date: 04/22/04

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    To: "'Paul D. Robertson'" <paul@compuwar.net>, "'Williams Jon'" <WilliamsJonathan@JohnDeere.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 09:54:16 -0400

    Here is an article I wrote on PDA security last year that might help:

    PDA Security 101
    http://www.intranetjournal.com/articles/200304/ij_04_07_03a.html

    There is a listing of some PDA security vendors in the article. There are
    even more than what I have listed in the article but the ones I listed
    seemed to be the major players from what I could tell.

    Laura 

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Laura Taylor
Relevant Technologies, Inc.
www.relevanttechnologies.com
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[mailto:firewall-wizards-admin@honor.icsalabs.com]On Behalf Of Paul D.
Robertson
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 7:36 AM
To: Williams Jon
Cc: firewall-wizards@honor.icsalabs.com
Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] PocketPC firewalls
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Williams Jon wrote:
> I've been tasked to identify firewall software that will run on
> PocketPC-based PDAs.  Googling around so far has turned up only one
> vendor in this space (Bluefire), but I was hoping that there were
> others.  Is anyone aware of existing products that run on PDAs to
> provide firewall services?
Personally, I'd wait a while.  Currently, there's basically zero threat
for Pocket PCs.  It's not at all clear if they'll gain enough success to
make widespread attacks worth-while, and until that happens, the validity
of any protection will be questionable (it's only been recently that PC or
"Personal" firewalls have become necessary enough for them to be exercised
and their issues found.)
I'd be in almost any enterprise, there are more significant targets that
should get the attention.
Paul
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