[THIN] Re: OT: Firewall Upgrade Question
- From: Evan Mann <emann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 08:53:22 -0500
Juniper, Checkpoint, Nokia, and Cisco (ASA series which is replacing
PIX) should be at the top of any list for Firewalls. Then I'd look at
Watchguard, and I'd put SonicWall at the bottom of the list.
Watchguard and SonicWall offer a lot of "full featured" firewalls. What
I mean by full featured is that you can add modules/components/licensing
to get virus scanning, web filtering, and other things. Checkpoint is
offering smaller SOHO solutions like this now as wel. Not sure about
Nokia, and I don't believe Juniper has anything like that.
A "full featured" firewall might be of more interest to you as a smaller
SOHO sized shop, or it may not because you already have those things.
I've used Watchguard's up through the SOHO6 and Firebox III series,
which are pretty old now, but the general idea of them is the same.
They were good boxes, GUI only, very easy to use.
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Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 7:14 AM
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Subject: [THIN] OT: Firewall Upgrade Question
Greetings All,
We are currently in a position of being able to upgrade our Firewall -
at the moment we are using a very antiquated version of Checkpoint (NG55
with application intelligence on a Nokia box- if I recall correctly)
Our main suppliers are touting solutions like Sonicwall & Watchguard at
us... but being as IT-inept as I am (opinions vary!) I don't really know
how to separate the wheat from the chaff...
Anyone have any real life experience with a solid out of the box product
please? What would you recommend?
FYI. Our firewall needs are rather meagre, we have less then 120 users,
of which only around 25 are remote users...and we would require some
site-to-site VPN functionality... but that is about it!!
Much obliged.
Jaime
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