Re: Firewall Upgrade

[Mark Rogowski <m.rogowski () UWINNIPEG CA>]

Forgive the derailing of this thread, but given all the chatter regarding Palo Alto, I am very curious to know how 
effective the product is at stopping malware.  PA touts they have strong anti malware protection - is this in fact 
true?  Have any of you noticed a drop in your end point infections?

Mark Rogowski  CISSP, CISM
IT Security / Information Security Office
University of Winnipeg
Ph: 204-786-9034





-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Michael 
Horne
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 8:48 AM
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Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Firewall Upgrade

I will also give a +1 to Palo Alto, We replaced a pair of aging Nortel branded check points with a pair of PA 5020's. 
We are very pleased with them and I personally would recommend them as well. A lot deeper view into what's happening on 
the network as well. Rule creation is not bad either once yopu get the mind shift changed to zone / application based 
vrs just a port based FW.


Michael Horne
Network Engineer
Olin College of Engineering
1000 Olin Way, Milas Hall, Suite LL18
Needham, MA 02492
1-781-292-2438



-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Russo, 
Dan
Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 2:19 PM
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Subject: [SECURITY] Firewall Upgrade

We are looking into upgrading our Firewall. I was wondering if anyone had anything to offer in regards to what you are 
using and the pros/cons associated to it.

Thanks,

Dan