Scorecard: VPN products

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Network World, 11/10/97.

Scorecard: VPN products

Network World, 11/10/97

Note: Click on a product's name to bring up a detailed data sheet. If you want to compare the products, you can download an Excel spreadsheet with the data for all 11 of them.

	Features and filtering (25%)	Manage- ability (25%)	Perf.(25%)	Key mgmt. (15%)	Instal- lation and doc. (10%)	Overall score
cIPro	8	7	8	8	7	7.7
Ravlin 10	6	8	9	7	7	7.5
IOS	8	6	10	5	7	7.5
Permit Security Gateway	7	8	6	8	7	7.2
InfoCrypt Enterprise	7	7	7	7	6	6.9
AltaVista Tunnel 97	5	8	NT	5	8	6.4
Interceptor	7	6	5	5	6	5.9
PN7	6	7	4	5	6	5.6
RRAS	6	6	NT	4	5	5.5
F-Secure VPN	6	4	NT	5	5	5.0
BorderWare Firewall Server	6	4	3	4	4	4.3

NT = not tested. For these products, overall score was calculated based on the other categories multiplied by a factor of 1.33.

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