October 01, 1997 03:01 PM

Session Wall-3

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Combine networking monitoring and firewall protection
As a long-time network consultant, I've seen my share of network monitoring software and my share of firewall software. But I must confess that I had never seen a product that combined the capabilities of both products until I ran into SessionWall by AbirNet. SessionWall is unique: You can't easily categorize it or compare it with other products in the market.

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can we have more than one interface on the sessionwall server to monitor and spoof more than one network segment , and can we use span on cisco switches , to monitor more than one segment and send tcp-reset massages

murad naser 3/3/2004 4:16:55 AM


I cannot accept the argument that network technicians need the ability to view these communications as a reason for using SessionWall. By the same reasoning, telephone technicians would be granted full license to listen to and reveal voice communications. In fact, this ability now takes a court order. Where employees know that email is routinely inspected, the productivity expected from the use of this technology does not appear. Instead, employees use paper or meetings to continue to exchange sensitive but not secret materials.

Sseseven 5/8/2001 1:07:19 AM


I have read the "Session wall-3" , i want the email address of the author to contact getting more information about the Products
Thank you very much

This article is very good 5/3/2001 8:52:14 PM


I read with interest John Enck’s October 1997 review of SessionWall-3. The conclusions about perusing email and other communications trouble me. I cannot accept the argument that network technicians need the ability to view these communications as a reason for using SessionWall. By the same reasoning, telephone technicians would be granted full license to listen to and reveal voice communications. In fact, this ability now takes a court order.
Where employees know that email is routinely inspected, the productivity expected from the use of this technology does not appear. Instead, employees use paper or meetings to continue to exchange sensitive but not secret materials. A general feeling of mistrust between employer and employee is furthered, and employees see the IS staff as an enabler of spying.
Products that treat employers as divine and employees as sinful encourage further division between them. Competent management detects inappropriate behavior by managing, not by abdicating that task to software. My company chooses not to inspect the content of employees’ email or spy on their Internet activities. Instead, we focus our limited resources on being better than the competition—quite successfully, I might add.

--Gerry M. Allen

Gerry M. Allen 8/10/1999 1:30:11 PM


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