Randy Opper wrote:
Can someone let me know what company makes
the most secure and strong small office firewall.
. . .
I need strong securtity to protect a machine that is
running IIS. IIS is running a service for my business.
I need to secure the system from attack.
The more sophisticated hardware firewalls can
provide limited protection for attacks against IIS,
but will be significantly more expensive, for both
initial purchase and recurring maintenance.
FWBuilder is just an addone to manage firewall (support
Iptables, BSD PF,Cisco PIX), not firewall system itself. I've
got a good experience with Checkpoint Safe@Office and small
Cisco PIXes - but I'm not pretty sure if those cost less than 700$...
Safe@ it's in that price range. I don't know about Cisco.
The low-end PIX products should come in under $500.
However, if it's about a small office, what's wrong with iptables?
iptables doesn't protect against IIS exploits.
PixOS 7.0 will provide some added protocol protection.
In my humble opinion, this firewall code is quite strong,
and as said before, FWBuilder really makes it easy to
manage.
Easy to manage the ruleset, but what about attacks
against the underlying OS?
Kevin
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