Has anyone heard of Elron Firewall before - seems quite cheap and supposed
to be very easy to install.
It's available from www.miseurope.co.uk <http://www.miseurope.co.uk> and by
Elron Software Inc. at www.elronsoftware.com <http://www.elronsoftware.com>
though I can't get through to any of their sites now.
Either their firewall's too tight, or they went bust? I have a 30 day trial
of the software and was considering installing it at our US and UK offices
as it is also able to do VPN between the two sites.
Any opinions would be greatly appreciated, or if anyone could suggest
anything better in the same price range (for 56/64k leased lines)
Regards,
James Smith
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 17 February 1999 20:35
To: Warren Brickett
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Comparing Technologic's Interceptor and
Checkpoint's Firewall-1
At 4:37 PM +1100 2/15/99, Warren Brickett wrote:
>
>
>Can anyone help me with this decision I need to make?
>Does anyone have any opinions on which is the better of the
two firewalls
>to go with: Checkpoint or Interceptor? (and any reasons why
one is
>preferable to the other)
>
Warren, better is relative to one's criteria, so I don't
want to go
down that subjective path.
But, I find the Interceptor impressive, due to the broad
range of
functions that it puts in one box. My take is that it's a
secure
Bastion Host, which not only proxies, but supports split
DNS, a mail
relay, will do address/port mapping (can hide your internal
network)
and filters. And cost a fraction of Ckp's FW. I don't think
it's
a full solution, but can be a key contributor. Surround it
with
a couple of C-2611s with Statefull packet filtering (which I
haven't
yet tested) and it sounds like a good start. Add ISS's
RealSecure,
Tripwire and few other tools to monitor system states, logs
and
active response to network anomalies and the Interceptor
seems a good
compliment to this type of setup.
This advice is worth at least what you paid for it :-)
But hopefully this will generate some substantive debate.
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