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Re: PIX vs CheckPoint
From: John Kinsella <jlk () thrashyour com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 14:18:19 -0700
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 01:24:05PM -0500, Darkslaker wrote:
i am studying for the CCSA and my Friend for CSPFA in the interchange of ideas we did not find differences significant; maybe two ; PIX run in OS for CISCO and CheckPoint in many platforms; and checkPoit have more products. My question is PIX or Checkpoint what is better and why.
I think one good point which hasn't been brought up yet is if you need to manage security at one or many enforcement points - Checkpoint scales much nicer for centralized management across multiple management points (or multiple companies for MSPs) with FW-1 and P-1 than anything I've seen from Cisco. Personally I was scarred by some bugs in various 5.x versions of PIX software. (oh and to echo the point of another person, PLEASE, for the love of (insert 1+ diety) do not run a firewall on a Windows OS) John _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
Current thread:
- PIX vs CheckPoint Darkslaker (Jun 29)
- Re: PIX vs CheckPoint David T Hollis (Jun 29)
- Re: PIX vs CheckPoint John Kinsella (Jun 29)
- Re: PIX vs CheckPoint Laurent LEVIER (Jun 29)
- Re: PIX vs CheckPoint Cyril Guibourg (Jun 30)
- Re: PIX vs CheckPoint Jaroslaw Sajko (Jun 30)
- Re: PIX vs CheckPoint Laurent LEVIER (Jun 30)
- Re: PIX vs CheckPoint Cyril Guibourg (Jun 30)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: PIX vs CheckPoint James Patterson Wicks (Jun 29)
- RE: PIX vs CheckPoint Eric Paynter (Jun 29)
- RE: PIX vs CheckPoint Gary E. Miller (Jun 29)
- Re: PIX vs CheckPoint John Kinsella (Jun 29)
- Re: PIX vs CheckPoint Eric Paynter (Jun 29)
- RE: PIX vs CheckPoint Tom Curry (Jun 29)
- RE: PIX vs CheckPoint Eric Paynter (Jun 29)