Ryan Byrd wrote:
so our small business is becoming a medium-sized business and we are
planning on switching from a bunch of servers running iptables to a
more enterprise layout with a couple of hardware firewalls creating a
DMZ for our webservers.
Any advice? I head that Cisco PIX firewalls are industry standard for
this type of thing. Anyone have any experience with those? Is there a
less expensive but equally as robust firewall?
ideas?
mrb
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We found ourselves in the same situation and the bosses went with a
Firebox to go with the rest all of our shiny new rack equipment. I
don't know a lot about Firewalls, but if you ask me the big expensive
ones do way to much garbage just so they can up the price. Weird stuff
like making sure people don't spend too much time looking at non-work
related sites in a day and blocking stuff they want to download, like
movies. We didn't buy a Firebox to micromanage our employees and
destroy morale, just wanted security. It does have a nice interface
though. Haven't checked out the web interface because the application
one is plenty nice. I think I would rather hook up a Linux box and do a
lot of RTFM to get a really nitty gritty firewall up so I know exactly
what it is doing. We've had a few surprises with this one and thought,
"Why the hell is it doing something like that?". But if you don't have
to time frame for that, then I can going for Cisco or whatever.
Eric Jensen
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