Re: Firewall Upgrade

[Roger A Safian <r-safian () NORTHWESTERN EDU>]

At the risk of overloading the Palo Alto band wagon, I'll also go +1.  We got ours about a year ago, and they have been 
incredibly useful.  They were the only system we tested that found, from the beginning, proven hostile traffic on our 
net.  The other's had signal, but, way too much noise.  They are now a critical component of our security posture.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv
> [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Michael Horne
> Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 8:45 AM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Firewall Upgrade
>
> I will also give a +1 to Palo Alto, We replaced a pair of aging Nortel branded
> check points with a pair of PA 5020's. We are very pleased with them and I
> personally would recommend them as well. A lot deeper view into what's
> happening on the network as well. Rule creation is not bad either once yopu get
> the mind shift changed to zone / application based vrs just a port based FW.
>
>
> Michael Horne
> Network Engineer
> Olin College of Engineering
> 1000 Olin Way, Milas Hall, Suite LL18
> Needham, MA 02492
> 1-781-292-2438
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Russo, Dan
> Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 2:19 PM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: [SECURITY] Firewall Upgrade
>
> We are looking into upgrading our Firewall. I was wondering if anyone had
> anything to offer in regards to what you are using and the pros/cons associated
> to it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan