Memco Software Ltd has duly announced another partner to add to its roster, as it recently promised it would (CI No 2,896). The Tel Aviv-based company announced it will start reselling fellow Israeli CheckPoint Software Technologies Ltd’s FireWall-1 network security software, together with its own SeOS Security for Open Systems, offering them as a single product with a single installation process from July. CheckPoint is offering targets network access while Memco targets server security, and the combination provides a secure firewall running on any variant of Unix, according to Memco. The company added that the offering has certain B-1 features, but it is not aiming for full B-1 classification. A key aspect of Memco’s SeOS is that it disables super-user privileges and shifts responsibility to individual users. Memco’s SeOS Access Control secures the operating system, while CheckPoint’s Internet firewall package is one of the most widely-used of its kind and is already resold by SunSoft Inc, Hewlett-Packard Co, Vanstar Corp and UB Networks Inc, among others. The bundle costs from $6,100 to $23,150, depending on the network configuration, and for existing CheckPoint FireWall-1 users, the hardened upgrade will be available from Memco for $1,100 to $4,250.
