[windows2000] Re: OT Firewalls
- From: "Tony Lyne" <Tony.Lyne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 13:50:00 +1300
Be careful here. ISA you still have to pay for the base Win2k Server license
and then pay for ISA on top of that. Not to mention the hardware to run it.
This will normally push it into the same league as the more expensive
firewalls. This will depend on your licensing agreement.
If youre looking at ISA its a great firewall, but do some comarisons first for
your budget as the expenses mentioned above can sometimes make it fall outside
of budget as compared to an appliance (Netscreen, PIX etx) or a software
appliance (Borderware).
Youre right about the expandability of a software appliance like (borderware
and the others mentioned) they are in the long term more scalable and are
easier to support when you encounter hardware failures.
Tony
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From: Chris Berry
[mailto:chris_berry-list-windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sat 28/02/2004 12:13 p.m.
To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Subject: [windows2000] Re: OT Firewalls
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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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