Why your personal firewall could be obsolete - TechUpdate - ZDNet:
"If your business has turned the use of personal firewalls into a required countermeasure, now's a good time to start thinking more strategically before buying any more personal firewall technology from a third party.

Although it still has a serious flaw that Microsoft will have no choice but to fix, the morphing of Windows XP's built-in personal firewall from a toy into a more serious security technology means that now's also a good time for the remaining independent personal firewall vendors like Zone Labs to be thinking about long term survival strategies. For the cottage industry of personal firewalls that includes giants like Symantec and McAfee (a division of Network Associates) and smaller players like Zone Labs, Sygate, Internet Security Systems (makers of BlackICE), and Panda Software, this was an inevitable turn of events.… "

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