Re: Firewall Comparisons
- From: "Ray Dzek" <rdzek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 12:16:48 -0700
I'm not a firewall engineer, but I play one at my company. I don't know all
the in's and out's of firewalls. But I do know I read everything I can
about what vulnerabilities and hacks are out there. And this much I do
know... Any properly configured and monitored firewall can be a great
firewall. But if you just turn thing on, and shove it in a closet, you are
asking for trouble. Every firewall product has it's quirks, and issues to
deal with. Every firewall product has it's own set of vulnerabilities.
What is not a vulnerability today, might be tomorrow. I use ISA and Cisco
PIX. I love and hate each of them equally.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 10:43 AM
Subject: [isalist] Firewall Comparisons
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This is a general broadcast to whom ever would like to respond, I am
currently evaluating firewall packages, and have looked at Checkpoint,
Symantec Enterprise and
some others including Microsoft ISA. During a recent conversation with a
Checkpoint support engineer we discussed what makes a true firewall and how
one package
may be better or worse than another. When I mentioned I was looking at
Microsoft ISA this engineer seemed to take great delight in bashing
Microsoft's ISA product.
Basically, he claimed it was nothing more than a extended version of
Microsoft Proxy Server and felt it did not have the necessary requirements
to be classified as a
true firewall, he also pointed out that Microsoft ISA was a state-less proxy
server as opposed to the state-full operations of say Symantec Enterprise
7.0, formally know
as Axent Raptor or Checkpoint-1. I would be glad to hear any feed back as
to the acceptance of Microsoft ISA as a functional firewall. I have worked
with ISA and I do
like what I see. Feed back is welcome
Thank you
Glenn
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