RE: Problems convince my sales staff to recomend ISA
- From: "Thomas W Shinder" <tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 01:58:21 -0600
Hi Bjornar,
Some more things to consider:
1) Ease of use. Many of the other products like CheckPoint are too complex
to configure and although ISA probably cannot be described as easy to configure
beyond the basics it is definitely better than the others. In my opinion the
more complicated a Firewall is to configure the more holes/mistakes you are
likely to have.
2) Combined Caching and Firewall.
3) Ability to use existing User ID's & Groups (in W2K) for restricting
access to web sites etc (There is only one other product on the market that can
do this with W2K)
4) VPN built-in, even without a current requirement for this I consider it a
major benefit.
5) H-323 GateKeeper built in. This can give huge cost savings over
conventional Video Conferencing so. Again even without a current requirement
for this I consider it a major benefit.
6) Link translation with FP1
7) Exchange RPC publishing -- get that to work with a PIX :-)
8) Secure OWA publishing and OWA Wizard with FP1
9) SMTP filter and Message Screener built in
10) Centralized policy and caching arrays and NLB
11) VPN Wizards that make configuring VPN Server and VPN gateways very easy
HTH,
Tom
Thomas W Shinder
www.isaserver.org/shinder
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Configuring ISA Server: http://tinyurl.com/1llp
-----Original Message-----
From: Bjørnar Stensrud [mailto:bjornar.stensrud@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 1:19 AM
To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List]
Subject: [isalist] Problems convince my sales staff to recomend ISA
http://www.ISAserver.org
Hi all!
Due to both prize and the fact that Microsoft isn't a synonym with
security for most people, I have some problems convince our sales staff to
recommend ISA.
- With ISA you need a server to at least $1500 + W2K ($1000) and the ISA
server ($600)
- integrated units like PIX and so on, is sold for $500 +.
- Checkpoint is still expensive, but is close to what we need to pay for
ISA.
Because of this, small customers, will then like to have an integrated
unit to $1000 or less, while the large customers have there doubts using
Microsoft as Firewall.(they need to face there bosses and other with there
choices)
I know ISA has Caching, firewall, bandwith controll, content filtering and
so on, but small customers don't need it, and large customers don't like
to put all the eggs in one basket.
Personaly, I believe in ISA - but I have serious problems convince
customers and sellers that this is the one.... please help.....
Thanks
Bjørnar
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