Re: Firewall recommendations

[Ramon Hermida <rhermida () UTPA EDU>]

Here, at University of Texas Pan American, we replaced our previous
firewall solution with soon-to-be redundant Fortigate 5000 series
firewalls after conducting a thorough evaluation (over 100 criteria).
The solution is extremely flexible in its configuration options
(IDS/IPS, VPN, Firewall, AV, and web filtering).  We are also pleased
about the scalability options since we are going through some growing
pains and may double our internet bandwidth within the year.

 

Regards

 

-RH

 

Ramon Hermida

Information Security Specialist

University of Texas Pan American

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From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv
[mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Jeff Holden
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 4:41 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] Firewall recommendations

 


We are looking at upgrading our campus's firewall.  We are currently
using a pair of end of life PIX 515s.  We have been looking at the Cisco
ASA and Juniper Netscreen products.  We are very early in our evaluation
and haven't talked with any venders yet.  We are wondering if any other
campus has been through this process recently and can offer any
suggestions.  We are looking at the bandwidth they can handle, price,
added features such as VPN, IDS/IPS functionality, likes and dislikes
and any other helpful advise.    Currently we are a mixed Cisco and HP
shop, but are open to any and all vendors solutions. 

Thanks,
Jeff Holden, CISSP, RHCE
Manager, Network & Data Security
Mt. San Antonio College
(909) 594-5611 X5017