Re: Personal Firewalls

[Jenny Sara Gluck <jsgluck () SYR EDU>]

We are currently working on a potential deployment on the centrally managed
personal firewall product from Sygate. All of our initial testing is
positive. We are looking at the firewall for remote users and for on-campus
users. We are looking at a tiered approach, where we require a VPN tunnel
(Nortel), AV software (McAfee ePO), MS-patches (SUS), and a pfw (Sygate). -
Jenny

At 04:18 PM 6/25/2004, Kay Sommers wrote:
> We have a site license that includes SCS, but we are having problems
> deploying it.   We would like to deploy it as "managed" so that users
> get the FW, intrusion detection and A/V updates automatically.
> However, we've found that only the A/V signature files get updated and
> even if we distributed it "unmanaged" which means we would have to
> depend on the users using the LiveUpdate option, security patches are
> not included.  To get the security patches for SCS, the user would have
> to download a patch separately.
> Does anybody have a solution to these problems?
>
> Lucas, Bryan wrote:
>
> > We've considered the SCS from Symantec, but honestly I think we're
> > waiting for SP2 from XP which will be free rather than buying some
> > package.  From what I've read it will be manageable via Group Policy and
> > free, did I mention that ;)
> >
> > Bryan Lucas
> > Lead Server Administrator
> > Texas Christian University
> > (817) 257-6971
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: The EDUCAUSE Security Discussion Group Listserv
> > [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Sadler, Connie
> > Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 11:33 AM
> > To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> > Subject: [SECURITY] Personal Firewalls
> >
> >
> > Does anyone recommend a personal firewall on campus? If not, are you
> > considering doing so? If you do make a recommendation, did you do an
> > eval? We're considering an evaluation of personal firewalls, for remote
> > users as well as users on campus, and know that it presents risks and
> > challenges. I'm interested in what others may have learned about this.
> >
> > Connie J. Sadler, CM, CISSP, CISM
> > Director, IT Security, Brown University
> > Box 1885, Providence, RI 02912
> > Connie_Sadler () Brown edu
> > Office: 401-863-7266
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