It depends on your business environment. If you are in manufacturing or some business where your computers don't change locations, the biggest benefit I see is being able to squelch protocols or Apps on your systems if there is a virus/malware outbreak to do at your switches, etc. Other than that, there shouldn't be much that you need to protect against.
If you have mobile users, or users who connect in through a network VPN though (as opposed to a proxy or SSL-type application VPN), your risks increase dramatically, since you have people who are connecting directly to the internet as well as your internal network on a regular basis. This fuzzing of your perimeter puts every internal system at some greater risk. Personally, I think it is worth protecting every pc with a personal firewall. If you have a rigid environment where your systems don't allow personal configurability or storage of data, you may not have anything to protect, but I would think even the potential re-imaging costs would offset the cost of purchase and deployment of a good enterprise class personal firewall (I like McAfee/EPO). /Gordon -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chinnery, Paul Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 2:27 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Firewall on Corporate clients. No. I did have Trend's but it was turning into such a nightmare that I turned it off. We do run a Pix 515 and keep everybody up to date on patches and a/v. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Shields, Anthony Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 12:02 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: OT: Firewall on Corporate clients. Hey quick question. Do any of yall run a firewall program on all of your corporate PCs? Be it Windows XP SP2 Firewall or Trend Micro's Officescan Firewall, etc. I was informed that some small business guru recommended it everyone at a recent talk that my boss went to. There's been a discussion here as to the pro's and con's and so trying to get a consensus from the group. Thanks, Anthony Shields Systems Administrator The Epstein School [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Epstein School Two languages One community _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
