Re: Firewall recommendations

["Brawner, David" <dbrawner () MARYVILLE EDU>]

At Maryville University, we installed redundant SonicWall 3060 firewall
devices on our Internet connection this past summer.  We have been very
happy with them so far.  They are very intelligent devices that have
allowed us to open up more services to our students.  We have also
installed and are now testing the SonicWall SSL VPN product.  This too
has been a very positive experience so far.

 

David S. Brawner

Manager of Network & User Services

Maryville University of St. Louis

 

From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv
[mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Jeff Holden
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 4:41 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] Firewall recommendations

 


We are looking at upgrading our campus's firewall.  We are currently
using a pair of end of life PIX 515s.  We have been looking at the Cisco
ASA and Juniper Netscreen products.  We are very early in our evaluation
and haven't talked with any venders yet.  We are wondering if any other
campus has been through this process recently and can offer any
suggestions.  We are looking at the bandwidth they can handle, price,
added features such as VPN, IDS/IPS functionality, likes and dislikes
and any other helpful advise.    Currently we are a mixed Cisco and HP
shop, but are open to any and all vendors solutions. 

Thanks,
Jeff Holden, CISSP, RHCE
Manager, Network & Data Security
Mt. San Antonio College
(909) 594-5611 X5017