RE: What's wrong with this page?
- From: "Amy Babinchak" <amy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 10:25:33 -0400
I've heard of SMB Nation and would love to go but can't justify the cost. For a
2 person consulting businesses these events are pretty pricey.
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From: Thomas W Shinder [mailto:tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wed 8/4/2004 9:10 AM
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Subject: [isalist] RE: What's wrong with this page?
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Hi Amy,
You know, I go both ways on this (OK Jim and Thor, no jokes here).
I really have a much greater kinship with these small businesses and
like working with them much more than the "big guys" who have swallowed
the PIX/Netscreem Bsology hook, line and sinker. I'm going to have to
rethink my approach to this subject, as it would be a good way to
introduce them to the power and flexibility of the ISA firewall software
and when they get bigger, they'll be a position to use dedicated ISA
powered hardware firewall (like that Jim, 'hardware firewalls' :-))
I was seriously considering not including any of these scenarios in the
upcoming book, because there are a lot of potential gotcha's. However,
it sounds like these customers are less interested in being security
'purists' and more interested in having secure remote access and a
measure of outbound access control. I'm sure the SBS team will do a bang
up job on coming up with some Wizardry for this, but that might be
almost a year away, from the sources I have on this issue.
BTW -- have you heard of SMB Nation? I'll be talking at their conference
next month and still trying to figure out what to say to them :))
Thanks!
Tom
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-----Original Message-----
From: Amy Babinchak [mailto:amy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 7:21 AM
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Subject: [isalist] RE: What's wrong with this page?
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Tom,
The scenario that I outlined isn't far off when I walk into a new
client. I can get them from scary to SBS Premium relatively quickly. But
I really think I'm going to run into a road block if I have to convince
them that they need 2 servers, when they are managing to run the
business without 1 right now. This will leave me with the fall back
position of SBS with some cheap-azz firewall with major holes punched
through it for remote access and remote access is BIG with small
business. These folks put in long hours and would rather put in some of
those hours from home. Remote access is THE thing that tips the scale in
favor of SBS with small biz owners and gets them to release the funds to
create a real network. Only ISA can do that safely.
Amy
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