Web and Email servers... to DMZ or not to DMZ

  • From: "Barrett Fowler" <bfowler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 12:08:20 -0700

I would just like some advice. I am doing some planning before purchasing
ISA as a firewall/proxy/cache server. I have a webserver and an email
server that I thought I might like to put into a DMZ. The webserver must
make requests to a SQL server, this would violate my internal network
assuming my SQL server is on the internal network. The SQL data is very
sensitive and must remain inside the internal network. Should I just
publish my web and email servers and forget the DMZ? How secure is
publishing compared to a DMZ? I would also like my users to be able to use
the full blown Exchange client. Thanks in advance for all of your help.

Cheers,
Barrett


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