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27: 449:(SCC), that used to be one of TIS's major competitors, because at the time McAfee wasn't interested in being a firewall vendor. The code base was integrated with Secure Computing's firewall product and branded Sidewinder Firewall, which then returned to McAfee when Secure Computing was acquired by them in 2008, and re-branded McAfee Enterprise Firewall. The end of this product line came in 2013, following McAfee's acquisition of another major firewall vendor, Finland-based 365: 432:
NAI Labs went through a couple of branding changes which complemented Network Associates' branding efforts. In 2001 the name was changed to Network Associates Laboratories to better match the corporate identity. Then, in 2002-2003, there was a major branding initiative by Network Associates
429:, who had already bought PGP Inc. in 1997. The security research organization became NAI Labs and the Gauntlet engineering and development organization was folded into Network Associates' engineering and development. 217:. TIS was headquartered in Glenwood, Maryland, in a rural location. The company was started in Walker's basement on Shady Lane in Glenwood, MD. As the company grew, rather than move to 586: 439:
In 2005, SPARTA acquired the remaining branches of McAfee Research, which were organized into the Security Research Division (SRD) of the Information Systems Security Operation (ISSO).
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In 2008, Cobham, plc, a British aerospace company, acquired SPARTA. There have been no organizational changes to SRD or ISSO that affect the security research.
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culminating in selection of the flag brand, McAfee. As a result, the security research organization became McAfee Research.
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On a separate path, TIS's primary commercial product, the Gauntlet Firewall, was acquired in 1999 from McAfee by
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In 2003, SPARTA, Inc., an employee-owned company, acquired the Network Security branch of McAfee Research.
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First whitehouse.gov e-mail server was hosted at TIS headquarters from June 1 of 1993 to January 20 of 1995
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in 1994, one of the first commercial firewall products, with broad range of Internet Standards, including
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suburbs, a small office building was constructed on land next to Walker's new home on Route 97.
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The company went public in 1996 and soon afterwards attempted to acquire
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Domain and Type Enforcement (DTE) which likewise influenced SELinux
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Firewall Toolkit (the first open source firewall software) in 1993
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veteran Steve Walker, and at various times employed notable
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Index


Computer software
Computer security
Stephen T. Walker
McAfee
McAfee
Glenwood
Maryland
U.S.
Firewall Software
IPSec
NSA
DARPA
ARL
AFRL
SPAWAR
NSA
information security
David Elliott Bell
John Pescatore
Steve Crocker
Marcus Ranum
Steve Lipner
Carl Ellison
Baltimore
Washington D.C.
Trusted Xenix
B2
operating system
Mach

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