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History

GTA was founded by a group of software engineers in 1992, and in 1994 was one of the first companies to introduced a commercial firewall. The original firewall they introduced was the GFX-94. The GFX-94 was a

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with unique dual walled design that consisted of two separate hardware devices comprising the inner and outer firewall. The GFX-94 was in the first group of firewalls certified by the NCSA (now ICSA). In 1996 GTA introduced the first tiny footprint firewall, the GNAT Box firewall, which fit entirely on a 3.5" floppy diskette. The GNAT Box firewall evolved into GB-OS. GB-OS was the operating system for all GTA firewalls and carried the ICSA Firewall Certification. In April 2018, the company announced on its

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page that it was ending all new business.

External links

GTA Web Site

GTA Forum

References

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ItDefense Magazine March 2006

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