On 25 Jul 99, at 8:41, Magowan, Richard M. (ITS) wrote:
> My company has grown rather quickly through merger activity and I find
> myself having to upgrade my Internet service to include multiple sites. I do
> not have the staff to properly manage and monitor the firewall environment
> at the remote sites, hell I don't even have the time to properly watch the
> one I've got! Anyway, I am evaluating SAVVIS as our possible new ISP with
> the intent to have them manage the firewall environment for a year or so.
> Checkpoint (Unix) will be the firewall supported. Questions:
> Anybody ever used this kind of service?
> Anybody ever used this service from SAVVIS? Anybody used SAVVIS for ISP. As
> for FW management, with the Checkpoint console is it practical to manage the
> remote devices centrally (must be since ISPs all do this - right?). How
> "safe" is managed services. Some will say trust no one but I've got to be
> practical with 15,000 users and 150 sites to manage and management that
> seems to thinks of the firewall in terms of an appliance. Any insight is
> greatly appreciated. Thank You.
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If you can, DO NOT USE A THIRD PARTY - rather train and do
it yourself. I inhereted an MCI - then Cable and Wireless firewall
management service, and I DO NOT KNOW WHAT I AM PAYING
THEM $5,300 / month for !!!!. At least since C&W took over from
MCI - it's been a NIGHTMARE!!! - wrong bills, no response to
service, no calls back from their Sales people - I am seriously
looking into legal stuff against them, believe it or not!!! I ended up
taking a class in Checkpoint myself, just to get a flavor of what this
firewall specific implemntation does, I will probably look also into
Raptor and Altavista ones, and then - shall the BEST win - will
bring the whole management in-house! Using a service nowadays
is HORRIBLE!!!. At least that's my own experience ...
Good luck, anyway,
Stefan
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