Va. It is a PC Card with a hardware controller that manages connections to a computer's partitioned hard drive. It received an EAL 2 certification in 1999. Critides said his company has developed a prototype computer for an EAL 5 rating and will try for the higher certification if sales of the current model justify it. Changes in the higher security configuration mostly involve enforcing access policies on the secure side of the computer, he said. The largest initial market for the SuperNet 2000 will likely be government agencies, some of which use two-PC user setups to guard sensitive information.
Most commercial users rely on firewalls, however.