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RE: FW appliance comparison - Seeking input for the forum
From: "Paul Melson" <pmelson () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 11:59:55 -0500
-----Original Message----- Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] FW appliance comparison - Seeking input for the forum
I think it would be interesting to know what type of group of was
responsible for managing
the firewalls in the study. I am moving an account off of a Checkpoint
being managed by a
services organization onto a PIX platform (no intent to start a vendor
war) - and I have
been surpised by the permissiveness, and redundancy, in the "managed" ruleset. The managed set broke two of the major rules in the documented in
the paper - and
possibly a third if I had it on front of me. Of course this takes a new tangent; but it would be an interesting study.
Haha! I have to tell you, as soon as I read this, I immediately thought of two vendors and am wondering if either of them are the vendor in this case. But embarrassing vendors - as fun as it is - isn't part of the list charter. The one thing that always struck me funny about these situations where an MSSP does a lousy job of remotely managing a Check Point rule base is that, in order to get Check Point's seal of approval, you've got to run Provider-1, which is a fairly large cash layout to start a service like that. But then to not spend much if any money on staff and staff training... I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but I am. And amused. But only because it's not my firewall. :-) PaulM _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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- RE: FW appliance comparison - Seeking input for the forum Paul Melson (Feb 01)
- Re: FW appliance comparison - Seeking input for the forum nick leachman (Feb 02)
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- RE: FW appliance comparison - Seeking input for the forum Paul Robertson (Feb 02)
- RE: FW appliance comparison - Seeking input for the forum R. DuFresne (Feb 02)
- RE: FW appliance comparison - Seeking input for the forum Paul Melson (Feb 02)
- Re: FW appliance comparison - Seeking input for the forum Dave Piscitello (Feb 02)
- Re: FW appliance comparison - Seeking input for the forum R. DuFresne (Feb 02)
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