Firewall Wizards mailing list archives
Re: Firewalls Compared
From: "Paul D. Robertson" <paul () compuwar net>
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 11:47:08 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, kashif wrote:
Hi, I want to compare two firewall ( Technical Aspects ) only PIX Vs Checkpoint has anybody done anything similar or could point out "what aspects" do we need to compare.
1. How well do the boxes implement my proposed security policy. 2. Do they pass testing for implementing my security policy. 3. How do the boxes perform implementing my security policy[1.] 4. What is my upgrade path should my performance requirements change? 5. How well can the devices be administered by multiple levels of people if my security policy defines and requires such. 6. Historically, how well has the vendor done. 7. What does it take to make them fall over. If you can't make them fall over, you're not testing hard enough. 8. How intuitive is my security policy when added to the systems. 9. Failover/backup issues (test both.). 10. License issues (how do they handle license failure, and how long does it take to recover.) Paul [1.] I once missed the perfect chance for a rejoinder when a certain firewall developer said "I've written things which scale well with authentication, so I'm basing this on my experience." I should have replied "I tried to deploy your product with authentication on, and it scaled not one bit, so I'm questioning your information based on my experience." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Robertson "My statements in this message are personal opinions paul () compuwar net which may have no basis whatsoever in fact." probertson () trusecure com Director of Risk Assessment TruSecure Corporation _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
Current thread:
- Firewalls Compared kashif (Jun 21)
- Re: Firewalls Compared Paul D. Robertson (Jun 21)
- Re: Firewalls Compared Gwendolynn ferch Elydyr (Jun 21)
- Re: Firewalls Compared Dave Piscitello (Jun 21)
- Re: Firewalls Compared Ryan M. Ferris (Jun 22)
- Re: Firewalls Compared Paul D. Robertson (Jun 22)
- Re: Firewalls Compared Devdas Bhagat (Jun 22)
- Re: Firewalls Compared Paul D. Robertson (Jun 22)
- Re: Firewalls Compared Devdas Bhagat (Jun 22)
- Re: Firewalls Compared Paul D. Robertson (Jun 23)
- Re: Firewalls Compared Paul D. Robertson (Jun 21)
- RE: Firewalls Compared Laura Taylor (Jun 26)
- Re: Firewalls Compared ArkanoiD (Jun 28)