Re: Re: What firewall for small medical research lab

[gun_mortimer () yahoo com]

The starting point should be to determine the level of risk of intrusion ... instead you start out with the technical 
solution... The technical solution should be balanced with risk ... from a small lab to a multinational ...

But anyway, as the others identified, two ways to go, commercial or 'free' with open source and/or similar solutions. I 
would suggest Astaro, we used it at the organisation I work for because we got extremely tired of a very expensive 
firewall product with a big reputation but similar size problems (at that time ...). We've been very happy with the 
Astaro, not as expensive as the big firewall brands, but on the other hand not as inexpensive as some open source 
products of course. But as I said, risk should determine what you want to pay ...

You can find it at www.astaro.com. You can get a trial to try it out which is what we initally did... We discovered it 
did a number of things straight away that the other big firewall was supposed to do - the problem was this big thing 
didn't work 'as advertised' ...

Cheers,

G.




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