I sympathize with your desire to stay with an OS that you're more familiar with, but would still recommend that you use SecurePlatform. The installation and configuration of a SPLAT deployment is not difficult at all, even for someone with no experience with Linux-based OSs. If your budget is limited, install the enforcement module and the SmartCenter server on the same box; if not, use SPLAT for the enforcement module and install your SmartCenter on a Windows box.
With today's hardware, you can meet all your requirements for a reasonable price. -----Original Message----- From: Mailing list for discussion of Firewall-1 [mailto:fw-1-mailingl...@amadeus.us.checkpoint.com] On Behalf Of Dave Hornby Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 3:57 AM To: FW-1-MAILINGLIST@AMADEUS.US.CHECKPOINT.COM Subject: [FW-1] Appliances vs Intel Server running Windows I am looking at upgrading our checkpoint firewall (Currently R60!) at some point soon and need to do a hardware refresh at the same time. Whilst I know checkpoint quite well, I am much more familiar with the Windows operating systems as a base for checkpoint to run on. So....Does anyone know if Checkpoint have any plans to support Windows 2008R2? As I see currently there is only 32bit support. Also with regular patching is Windows really a bad choice security wise? Currently we run a single box Checkpoint firewall but I may add in a 2nd box for resilience (Cost dependant!) My preferences are to either go down the appliance route or run with Checkpoint on Windows. As a guide we use the firewall for the following: 100 Users web access 30 Users remote connectivity (Will be via Endpoint security Client) 20 B2B IPSEC VPN's With up to 20 Hosted server accessible across the internet (A mix of Web and Terminal services servers) I will also want to turn on IPS and possibly some other functionality (But NOT AV, SPAM or URL filtering) Does anyone have any recommendations? Many thanks Dave Scanned by Check Point Total Security Gateway. ================================================= To set vacation, Out-Of-Office, or away messages, send an email to lists...@amadeus.us.checkpoint.com in the BODY of the email add: set fw-1-mailinglist nomail ================================================= To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ================================================= If you have any questions on how to change your subscription options, email fw-1-ow...@ts.checkpoint.com ================================================= Scanned by Check Point Total Security Gateway. ================================================= To set vacation, Out-Of-Office, or away messages, send an email to lists...@amadeus.us.checkpoint.com in the BODY of the email add: set fw-1-mailinglist nomail ================================================= To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ================================================= If you have any questions on how to change your subscription options, email fw-1-ow...@ts.checkpoint.com ================================================= Scanned by Check Point Total Security Gateway.
