We use Checkpoint and have been very happy. We are planning to upgrade to the latest version which has in-built virus scanning. Also Checkpoint have a nice hardware Firewall/VPN box that can be managed through the same console as your firewall. Matthew Shrewsbury Network Manager ________________________________ From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of IT Support Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 7:14 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] OT: Firewall Upgrade Question Greetings All, We are currently in a position of being able to upgrade our Firewall - at the moment we are using a very antiquated version of Checkpoint (NG55 with application intelligence on a Nokia box- if I recall correctly) Our main suppliers are touting solutions like Sonicwall & Watchguard at us... but being as IT-inept as I am (opinions vary!) I don't really know how to separate the wheat from the chaff... Anyone have any real life experience with a solid out of the box product please? What would you recommend? FYI. Our firewall needs are rather meagre, we have less then 120 users, of which only around 25 are remote users...and we would require some site-to-site VPN functionality... but that is about it!! Much obliged. Jaime This message has been scanned for viruses by BlackSpider MailControl <http://www.blackspider.com/>