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Overview

The Eagle Network Security Management System is a suite of software products that reside between your local-area-network (LAN) and another network. The other network can be the outside world (i.e., the Internet) or another of your own LAN's, local or remote.

The Eagle is designed to isolate one network from another, allowing only those connections and services that you permitted. The Eagle can detect suspicious activity (as you define it) and alert you through a fax, pager, electronic mail or audible alarm. The Eaglet Subnet Partitioner is designed to work with the Eagle to compartmentalize important intranet workgroups or sub-LANS, offering them the same protection that Eagle provides.

Just having one (or several) Eagles on your network does not obviate the need for having a coherent, well thought out site security plan. We cannot stress too strongly the importance of doing this planning before there is a catastrophe. Several documents that can assist in this planning are listed in the preface to this manual.

Figure illustrates the functional components of the Eagle, and their relationships.

The Eagle features include:



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