Re: Time to ditch Sygate firewall?
From: Bob (ace62_at_winNOJUNK.net)
Date: 08/19/05
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Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 02:20:48 -0700
"Joe Fox" <ny152@nopsam.invalid> wrote in message
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> 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
>
You can get Sygate firewall in System suite by Vcom. thats the only place I
have seen it.
Bob
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