RES: ISA 2004 against other manufacturers firewalls

From: "Tiago de Aviz" <Tiago@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:46:43 -0200
Well paul, if you get this list's archives, you'll see a lot of posts from Tom 
about multiple PIX vulnerabilites, for an instance. If your manager isn't 
comfortable with security vulnerabilites, he'd be better off the Internet then.
 
Any solution, ISA, Pix, Checkpoint, linux, will require regular monitoring and 
maintanance and updates. But it would be a really bad choice to migrate from 
ISA to anything, except for another ISA ;)
 
I really get annoyed with this "Microsoft isn't safe" talk. Ask him when did 
ISA 2000 crash. Fortunately, all my customers who said that currently have an 
ISA firewall and they do truely forget that the ISA firewall's there ! ;)
 
 
Tiago

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        De: Paul Crisp [mailto:pcrisp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
        Enviada: ter 1/18/2005 20:01 
        Para: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] 
        Cc: 
        Assunto: [isalist] ISA 2004 against other manufacturers firewalls
        
        
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        Hi all,
         
        Firstly I want to state that I have been using Microsoft Proxy / 
Firewalls since Proxy 2.0 and we are now running ISA 2004 which I'm finding a 
very full featured product and also much nicer and easier to use than ISA 2000
         
        Unfortunately my knowledgable manager (not!) can't understand why we 
are using a Microsoft product, and obviously because its installed on a server 
he thinks its just another Microsoft box thats likely to crash or have loads of 
security vulnerabilities ! He has now asked me to join a meeting with a 
supplier on Thursday 20th to which the supplier will be showing us the Juniper 
Netscreen-208 and the Fortinet range of products.
         
        I want to go in with all the armoury I can and basically stick to my 
guns on the Microsoft ISA products, especially ISA 2004 as I know the product 
can fulfil our needs and also makes an upgrade path from our other existing ISA 
2000 products.
         
        Please can you help and give me the facts and figures I need. I have 
read through Tom's article 
http://www.isaserver.org/articles/2004firewallcomparisonp1.html and this does 
help me. Just wondered if people could quote certifications and other facts etc
         
        All help appreciated and lets hope I will be continuing to use and 
learn from the great Tom, Jim and others
         
        Paul Crisp
        Snr Network Support Analyst
         
        
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