RE: Personal Firewalls

[Tony Chryseliou <TonyC () bgls com>]

Thanks for everyone's input, you've been a big help. To answer a couple of
questions, some users will be "mobile" and some will be "home" cable/DSL. So
a dedicated hardware device is not the best solution. In terms of cost
effective (read: We're not huge and can't afford to sink a lot into a
separate management console and outrageous support fees), I guess we'll be
testing Symantec, BlackIce, and possibly one other package mentioned here
further.

Again, thanks for everyone's input.

Tony Chryseliou
Director, IT
New World Holdings
732-544-0155 x165


-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Chryseliou [mailto:TonyC () bgls com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 9:28 AM
To: firewall-wizards () nfr com
Subject: [fw-wiz] Personal Firewalls


I'm currently in the development stage of a VPN project. Will be mostly
telecommuters. One of the requirements besides the software that will create
the VPN tunnel, is to have a mini-firewall that will be installed on the
client PC.

My only requirement is that "rule sets" be packageable and easily deployed
after install. Been working with an eval of Symantec Desktop Firewall and it
does meet the requirement, but quite frankly, the thing is flaky and doesn't
behave consistently.

Are there any other products in this category that I should be looking at? 

TIA,

Tony Chryseliou
Director, IT
New World Holdings
732-544-0155 x165

P.S. Before any says Checkpoint, been there, done that. I refuse to give
them any more money because of their lousy support, over priced, and product
introduction schedule.
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