Re: host based firewall for windows 2003 server?

["Petreski, Samuel" <samuel-petreski () UIOWA EDU>]

I would recommend WIPFW, which is based on the FreeBSD IPFW firewall and it
is free. It allows for blocking inbound and outbound traffic. The biggest
disadvantage or advantage, based on your point of view, is that the entire
configuration is in a text file.

http://wipfw.sourceforge.net/

--Samuel

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Samuel Petreski
Sr. Security Analyst
CIO Office
University of Iowa
samuel-petreski () uiowa edu
(319) 335 - 6174

-----Original Message-----
From: Vuong Phung [mailto:vphung () SCIENCE SJSU EDU]
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 11:36 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] host based firewall for windows 2003 server?

Windows 2003 built-in firewall only blocks incoming traffic and don't do
much logging and alerting. We are looking for a firewall to install on
Windows 2003 server to control  and monitor its outgoing and incoming
traffic. A lot of googling didn't show many products, and none of them
really stand out or have much review about the products.

Does anyone know or use any third-party firewall on Windows 2003 server that
can control, monitor and alerting (via email or log to the event log) its
outgoing and incoming traffic?

Thanks!

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