is it worth having?

has anyone used it, any comments?

thank you.

ive only read about these, dont know if they are avaliable yet?
i remeber reading bout the same time as cpu's where going to have AV built in :-)

i tend to stick with 3com 905c's for network cards :-)

well its available in the market.

SANS has a review of it, and recommend as part of the defense-in-depth strategy.

By the by that was just a practicle article for passing a GIAC certification test and not actually from SANS.

But he has a very good point, defense-in-depth! Yes all machines should have client firewalls. Yes wouldn't it be cool to stop it at the NIC. But the question that brings up is: is it really any better than a software based approach? I can see why it would be nice and would add a few benifits but the software ones work great.

My advice, stick with the software ones (sygate makes a nice free one) for now. 3Com usually both sucks and blows when it comes to security and anything but NICS (yes this includes those crappy superstack switchs they make).

--P>G>>