Re: Integrated IDS/IPS/Firewall (Cisco ASA and Juniper ISG)

[ArkanoiD <ark () eltex net>]

nuqneH,

That reminds me why there could be no such thing as good whisky/cola
or gin/tonic mix in a can: every company that tries to make it has its
own cola or tonic breed and it is usually not satisfying even if they
try to use well-known good gin or whisky, and using different cola or
tonic is against the company policy ;-)

On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 03:14:33PM -0400, Paul D. Robertson wrote:
> On Thu, 25 May 2006, sushil menon wrote:
>
> > hi robert i feel there is a good need for integrated appliance. i feel
> > even fortinet is a good box just like netscreen having
>
> What makes you feel that?  Historically, vendors have done a *terrible*
> job of loading multiple codebases onto a single system, and all these
> products will come from different development teams inside a vendor.
>
>
> > ips,firewall,anti-virus. url-filtering and anti-spam in one single box.
>
> So, one failure of any one component at the right level and you lose AV,
> firewalling, anti-spam and filtering- that seems like a major increase in
> risk.
>
> Plus- and this is the biggie- now you're not choosing the best-of-breed of
> any of the services, you're getting whatever that vendor's good at and
> then the rest of their stuff that most likely couldn't survive on its own.
>
> Paul
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