Sadly, its not yet. As mouss will tell you, no vendor guarrantees the
capabilities of any product they did not install. If yo installed your
own Gauntlett box, and there is a breach for whatever reason, you will
have a hard time pinning that on NAI. Oh, sure, you can ditch them as
your vendor, but the damage is still done, and you don't exactly have
much legal recourse.
I would be interested in hearing of cases which prove me wrong (ie,
successful suits with damages awarded to a company for loss caused by
the failure of a security component).
Henry
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Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 9:00 AM
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In my personal view, the biggest advantage to commercial products is
not the technical support that you get, but the fact that your legal
liability is moved from my desk to another corporation. :-)
Dan
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From: Paul Metzger [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Thu, October 19, 2000 9:40 AM
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Subject: RE: Commercial vs OpenSource
The Biggest advantage to useing commercial products is that you will
get tech. support at least for some time anyway. Open Source products
don't come with tech. support my nature, but on the flip side, you can
always get help on most any open source product from mailing lists
like this one. The biggest advantage is on the side of open source,
which is cost. From my experance the open source stuff usually works
better, mainly because if there is a bug in it, rather than just 1 or
2 people working on it in corporate America, there will be no telling
how many people working on the same problem. My advise is to go with
open when ever possible. Hope This helps you at least a little.
Paul
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