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On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Pete Howard <[email protected]> wrote:

> Anyone have a favorite VAR to work with for PA's ? A few of
> my usual vendors dont carry them
>
>   ------------------------------
> *From:* "Ziots, Edward" <[email protected]>
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 6, 2013 4:08 PM
> *Subject:* RE: OT: Guest network security
>
>   If you mean PA=Palo Alto, they are dead on (scary CCIE would say that
> being from the CISCO house) I work on Palo Alto Daily, and its sick how
> much these things can do.  Been finding a lot that I wouldn’t have been
> able to obtain but regular firewall log parsing, and being able to
> quantifiy you own applications and make traffic rules based on them is
> pretty killer.
>
> Z
>
> Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, Security +, Network +
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>  *From:* Kevin Lundy [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 06, 2013 3:48 PM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* Re: OT: Guest network security
>
>  I have two CCIE's that work for me.  Both also used to work for a Cisco
> VAR - so obviously Cisco bigots.  They both recommended PA to me over the
> ASA.  From a security perspective, the PA do so much more than ASAs.  We
> still use ASAs for some intranet firewalls.
>
>  Are you using the Cisco controllers with your WAPs?  If so, they have
> captive portal capability.  They call it Lobby Ambassador.
>  On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote:
> Our Sidewinders are EOL at the end of April, and my manager doesn't like
> them.
>
> He's a Cisco bigot, and wants ASAs in here.
>
> I'm fighting him to at least take a look at the Palo Alto platform, or
> perhaps the newest iteration of the Sidewinders (which are now called
> McAfee Enteprise Firewalls).
>
> That's an interesting tip on the Sophos solution. What did you use for
> the hardware?
>
> Kurt
>
> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Richard Stovall <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > I was going to suggest using the SonicPoint solution from SonicWall, but
> > you've got Sidewinders, don't you?
> >
> > Does McAfee have anything like SonicWall's wireless solution where it's
> all
> > managed from the firewall?
> >
> > PS  Sophos has this too, and they give their UTM firewall away free for
> home
> > use.  Just bring your own hardware.  I just switched to this the other
> day
> > and love it so far.  I should write a blog post about it.  (But then I'd
> > have to create a blog...)
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
>   >> All,
> >>
> >> Quite some time ago, I set up an unsecured guest VLAN in our network,
> >> providing wireless access to all of the sundry devices that staff and
> >> visitors carry. I set up a small FreeBSD machine to serve IP addresses
> >> via DHCP, and that was dead simple.
> >>
> >> It is a layer2 VLAN, traversing our backbone, and terminating on our
> >> corporate firewall.
> >>
> >> However, there are now other tenants in our building, and the subnet
> >> is getting too much bandwidth and address consumption - the range I
> >> set up is completely filled, and the VLAN is consuming about half of
> >> our Internet pipe, which is far too much for my comfort.
> >>
> >> I suspect the other tenants are leeching.
> >>
> >> What I've read of captive portals seems to indicate that the portal is
> >> part of the firewall. I could be wrong about that, though. Regardless,
> the
> >> corporate firewall will not be allowed to be part of this solution.
> >>
> >> The only other alternative I see right now is to set up a password on
> >> the SSID, and have the front desk hand it out to guests, after mailing
> >> it to staff, and I'm getting pushback on that from my manager.
> >>
> >> Does anyone have some ideas I could pursue on this?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Kurt
> >>
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