RE: Personal Firewalls

["Wigg, Guy G" <GWigg () mail sbic co za>]

The problem with most personal firewall solutions is the users can stop the
firewall service, you need to sell the firewall idea to your users else they
just see it as a nuisance. I know Checkpoint secure client only permits a
VPN connection to the organisation if the desktop firewall is enabled, maybe
F-Secure does something similar?

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick M. Hausen [mailto:hausen () punkt de] 
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 8:29 PM
To: TonyC () bgls com
Cc: firewall-wizards () nfr com
Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] Personal Firewalls


Hi all!

Tony Chryseliou wrote:

> 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?


F-Secure VPN+ is a decent IPSec client with good centralized policy
management. They have added a "Distributed Firewall" to their workstation
suite recently that plugs into the same management framework (in fact
all their workstation products do, including Antivirus).

We haven't had the time to evaluate the "Distributed Firewall", though,
so you'll need to run your own tests. Bet, you'd be doing this anyway ;-)

We are an F-Secure Solution Provider, so I'm a bit biased.
If you like more information, feel free to contact me off the list.

HTH,
Patrick
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