[windows2000] Re: OT Firewalls
- From: Chris Berry <chris_berry-list-windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 15:13:22 -0800
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Jim Kenzig http://thin.net wrote:
| How much would it cost you to clean up if your network was hacked?
How much
| money would your company lose from downtime. Would you still have a job?
| $7000 is pennies when I start answering those questions. Every 3 years
| updating critical hardware is not unrealistic. Bandwidth technology has
| improved every few years also...it makes sense to keep your equipment in
| line with it.
I have to disagree. For a small company, three years isn't that long
for an expensive piece of hardware like that. For that size network and
budget, I'd recommend going with a software firewall, it's going to cost
like 80% less over the same time period, and if you do have to upgrade
the hardware it will still be alot cheaper. Examples: IPCOP, IPTABLES,
heck even ISA server would probably be cheaper.
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Chris Berry
chris_berry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Systems Administrator
JM Associates & Coast Business Service
"He who laughs last probably made a back-up." --Murphy's Seventh law of
computing
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