Windows NT must evolve quickly to garner a spot in the secure operating system arsenal or somehow steal market share from the likes of Novell. It just is not there yet. But Microsoft's Phaup left me with one closing thought. ``Have you talked to the Cairo [Windows 95.5] guys yet?''
2Schwartau is an independent consultant, writer and lecturer on network security topics. He can be reached at Interpact, Inc. at (813) 393-6600, or via electronic mail at P00506@psilink.com.
FYI, there's been some controversy lately on the Firewalls list about Winn Schwartau. For one thing, he apparently works as a marketer for the company that makes the Sidewinder firewall, so this "independent consultant" bit has been judged rather misleading by some people. Last I saw, someone was requesting an apology/explanation from Internet World or some such magazine for the last paragraph above, or a reasonable facsimile. This arose because he apparently wrote a highly favorable review of Sidewinder for the aforementioned `zine, in which he also criticized Bellovin & Cheswick's firewalls bible for not discussing "type enforcement" (used/implemented by Sidewinder). The latter criticism has been vigorously defended by some third parties, and I don't know enough about the subject to make any clear judgement about it. Anyway, since he's knocking the security of something else in the article here, I thought it appropriate to point all this out. [Lest anyone ask me, you can join the firewalls list by sending mail to majordomo@greatcircle.com with "subscribe firewalls" in the body, not in the subject. There's a digest format (use "subscribe firewalls-digest") which I recommend over the standard list distribution.] -L. Futplex McCarthy