Global Technology Associates
Global Technology Associates, Inc. was a developer and pioneer of Internet firewalls. The company was privately held with its headquarters, development, and support facilities based in Orlando, Florida.
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 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. 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 Facebook page that it was ending all new business.