Firewalls

Protecting both ends

For example, CyberwallPlus-SV (www.vbxtras.com/products/

CyberwallPLUS_error.asp) is an industrial-strength SOHO firewall

capable of protecting clustered multiprocessing machines. Cyberwall

installs at the kernel level, hardening it against common attacks and,

more important, veiling the machine’s identity. If hackers can’t tell

what the machine is, they can’t get at it using common exploits asso-

ciated with those machines, like sendmail if it’s a mail server or

Internet Explorer if it’s a web server. And, CyberwallPlus-SV stands

up better to Java and ActiveX mobile code-based attacks than

SOHO firewalls.

However, for individual desktops ...