Yes, that is correct, we get a daily deluge of electronic mail that
customer praise ZoneAlarm over other Personal firewalls, but when asked why
is the product so great? Because this type of information is important to
vendors who listen to their customer much unlike big MAMMOTH customers (i.e
Micro$oft)..
/m
At 10:34 AM 12/4/00 +1100, Saso Virag wrote:
>In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Graham w
>rites:
> >Mark,
> >
> >For me, a key question I ask of all network related
> >software that I use is:
> >
> > Is it scalable?
> >ie will I have to scope, search out, acquire, install,
> >and learn to drive new software as a network/system
> >grows, or passes to different SysAdmins hands.
>
>Of course scalability plays a major role in designing systems/networks,
>but it isn't number one concern when you have to deploy security
>appliances. Mark was asking more for security-related features that
>ZoneAlarm has and other personal firewalls don't have. I wonder how one
>can scale _personal_ firewall beyond one box.
>
> >Let me give an example: Of late, I have had the call
> >to provision/maintain a few home/SOHO networks with
> >proxy software. I have chosen ProxyPlus for this. My
> >reasoning went something like this ... It works
> >satisfactorily (ie functional + effective = useful) out
> >of the box, a good start. It can be 'supped up' by
> >more advanced users, or for more demanding network,
> >simply, without plugins etc. eg one can setup Notes
> >replication through a standard 'tweak' in the app.
>
>And once more convenience wins against security.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Saso
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