A survey of commercially available secure LAN products
G. King · 2003
The advent of the Trusted Network Interpretation (TNI) and the widespread availability of powerful microcomputers has resulted in the development of secure local area networking (LAN) products. Potentially, these products provide tremendous economic benefit by allowing multi-level secure operation of local area networks. The author examines eight of the most popular secure LAN products from a technical perspective. The surveyed products include the Verdix Secure LAN, the Boeing Secure LAN, the Sun MLS OS, IBM/TIS's Secure Xenix, DEC's Ethernet Enhanced Security System, the Harris LAN/SX, the Ford Aerospace Multinet Gateway, and the Xerox Encryption Unit. Following the examination of these products, the paper provides subjective conclusions about the state of LAN security.>