Re: Time to ditch Sygate firewall?

From: Joe Fox (ny152_at_nopsam.invalid)
Date: 08/17/05 

Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 10:59:36 -0500

On 17 Aug 2005 in
news:1124287595.079510.88970@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com
salwithed@yahoo.com wrote:

> Symantec to buy Sygate
>
> By Ellen Messmer, Network World
> http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?NewsID=4231
>
> Symantec is set to acquire Sygate Technologies, which makes network
> access-control and endpoint-protection policy-enforcement products.
>
> Symantec said it initially will keep offering Sygate's line of
> policy-enforcement products - which can be used in conjunction with
> network equipment from Alcatel, Enterasys, Juniper and Nortel, among
> others - to control network access based on policy decisions which may
> include anti-virus or patch updates. In January, Sygate joined Cisco's
> network admission control programme to support the Cisco-led method of
> desktop policy enforcement.
>
> Symantec intends to integrate Sygate Enterprise Protection 5.0, the
> most recent version of Sygate's flapship software, into Symantec's
> current endpoint-protection products, which include Symantec Client
> Security, after the acquisition of Sygate has been completed.
>
> "This will be the primary product area in which we intend to include
> SEP 5.0," said Brian Foster, Symantec's senior director of product,
> noting that after combining SEP 5.0 and Symantec Client Security, SEP
> 5.0 will eventually be phased out.
>
> Foster said SEP 5.0 brings a mix of additional host
> intrusion-prevention and host control capabilities to the Symantec
> Client Security desktop software, which includes personal firewall,
> anti-virus and anti-spyware support.
>
> California.-based Sygate, a privately held company, was originally
> founded under the name Sybergen Technologies by Chief Technology
> Officer Chris Guo with help from venture capital firms that included
> Trident Capital, Trinity Ventures and MVC Capital. The company name was
> changed to Sygate five years ago, at the time John DeSantis joined as
> CEO and president.
>
> Sygate's customer base of 400 enterprises includes Prudential Financial
> and Diebold. No specific consolidation plans concerning staff have been
> announced and the value of the deal was undisclosed.
>
>

So what happens to Sygate personal firewall? free and pro editions?

I actually like using this thing, it's going to be difficult switching to
something inferior. imo, everything is inferior to SPFP

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