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Supercommunicator
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Supercommunicator

by Frank J. Pietrucha
May 2014
Beginner
272 pages
5h 11m
English
AMACOM
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The Power of Comparison

A STAR TREK ANALOGY TO THE RESCUE

David Pensak, founder of Raptor Systems—now a part of Symantec—is best known for bringing the first commercial Internet firewall to market. A multifaceted innovator with more than forty patents to his name, Pensak faced an uphill battle explaining what an Internet firewall was at a time when businesses and consumers were still trying just to understand the purpose of the Internet itself.

Pensak's inspiration for describing the firewall came from the epic late-1960s television show Star Trek. Pensak came up with a brilliant analogy that cut through the novelty of the firewall and explained ...

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