associates inc. type privately held company industry network security founded 1992 headquarters orlando florida usa products unified threat management utm firewalls antivirus intrusion prevention system antispam vpn url filtering virtualization ipv6 website http www.gta.com global technology associates inc. is a developer and pioneer of internet firewalls . the company is privately held with its headquarters development and support facilities based in orlando florida . history edit 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 stateful firewall 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 the current gb os . citation needed gb os is the operating system for all gta firewalls and carries the icsa firewall certification . external links edit gta web site gta forum references edit itdefense magazine march 2006 stop em with a box network world aug 8 2000 david strom tiny firewalls fill a niche . network world november 30 1998 christopher null retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title global technology associates inc. & oldid 647124972 categories companies based in orlando floridacompanies established in 1992networking companies of the united statesnetworking hardware companieshidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from november 2009 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 14 february 2015 at 17 35 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view