Conclave has some strong advantages - no other firewall in this review lets you manage multiple systems as a single entity. However, the product still has a good distance to go before it matches the basic firewall features available from other vendors. Feedback Tell us your thoughts on this article or the issues raised in it. When you click Submit, you'll be taken back to this article. Scorecard and NetResults Key findings, pricing and vendor contact info.
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The final roster How we decided which firewalls to review. Snyder is a senior partner with Opus One, a consulting firm in Tucson, Ariz., specializing in e-mail, security and networking. Gwinn is associate director of computing services at the Edwin L. Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University in Dallas where he works on wireless networking and security projects. Firewalls See what we recommended last year. Firewall RFP See what the vendors are responding to.