DEC-FirewallServices

This document describes the Digital Firewall Service (DFS), a high-end, customized firewall solution offered by Digital Equipment Corporation. It's part of Digital's three-tier firewall family, designed for organizations requiring robust, high-performance Internet security.

Key aspects of the Digital Firewall Service include:

1. Comprehensive Protection: It combines Digital's Firewall for UNIX software with custom configuration, consulting, training, and support to create a tailored, intelligent gateway that secures private networks from unauthorized access and malicious intrusion.
2. Flexible & Adaptable: DFS is designed to accommodate unique security policies and specific performance requirements, offering flexible and reliable Internet access.
3. Advanced Technology: It utilizes programmable firewalls and screened intelligent gateways, often placing a public system in front to shield the core gateway, ensuring the highest possible level of protection while allowing controlled user access.
4. Ease of Administration: The service simplifies firewall management through robust auditing, logging, customizable scripts, and host security features.
5. Proven Reliability: Digital leverages its extensive experience (over a decade of Internet connectivity, managing a vast internal IP network, and having installed over 180 firewall systems for various large, multinational organizations) to deliver trusted and reliable security solutions.

The document also contrasts DFS with simpler, less secure Internet connection methods and highlights Digital's broader portfolio of Internet services that assist clients with planning, connecting to, doing business on, and managing their Internet presence.