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RE: Managed Firewall Service - Opinions
From: "Paul Stewart" <pauls () nexicom net>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 11:42:11 -0400
We are doing that right now on a smaller scale for our customers. Offer the customer our own managed equipment (we won't assume ownership of a customer owned firewall - too messy sometimes). Equipment ranges from Cisco PIX, Netscreen and Linux generally. In regards to running your own firewall, if you have an experienced IT department that is security anal (sorry, best word I could think of) then you should be fine running your own. If you would rather have a team of people look after this equipment and give you peace of mind, then outsource in my opinion. Contact me offlist for more info specific to our services if you like. :) Thanks, Paul Stewart Network Solutions Specialist Nexicom Inc. http://www.nexicom.net -----Original Message----- From: firewall-wizards-admin () honor icsalabs com [mailto:firewall-wizards-admin () honor icsalabs com] On Behalf Of Fiamingo, Frank Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 10:45 AM To: firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com Subject: [fw-wiz] Managed Firewall Service - Opinions My boss has asked me to investigate managed firewall solutions for our organization. We're a mid-sized organization: 700 employees, 200 servers (mostly Windows). Does anyone have any experience with companies that do this that they would like to share? What are a few pros and cons that come to mind versus managing the firewalls yourself? Do these companies manage the firewalls as we currently have them, or do they install/configure their own? - currently we use Gauntlet firewalls. Who are the major players in this market (those that are likely to be around for awhile)? I'm just looking for a basis to start my exploration. Thanks, Frank Frank Fiamingo STRS Ohio Network Support _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
Current thread:
- Managed Firewall Service - Opinions Fiamingo, Frank (Apr 17)
- Re: Managed Firewall Service - Opinions Paul Robertson (Apr 17)
- RE: Managed Firewall Service - Opinions Paul Stewart (Apr 17)
- RE: Managed Firewall Service - Opinions Paul Robertson (Apr 17)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Managed Firewall Service - Opinions Jeffery . Gieser (Apr 17)
- RE: Managed Firewall Service - Opinions Melson, Paul (Apr 17)
- RE: Managed Firewall Service - Opinions Melson, Paul (Apr 17)
- RE: Managed Firewall Service - Opinions Paul Robertson (Apr 17)
- Re: Managed Firewall Service - Opinions Joseph S D Yao (Apr 19)
- Re: Managed Firewall Service - Opinions Duncan Sharp (Apr 17)
- Re: Managed Firewall Service - Opinions R. DuFresne (Apr 18)
- Re: Managed Firewall Service - Opinions Mike Scher (Apr 18)
- PIX Config Problem Paul Stewart (Apr 22)
- RE: Managed Firewall Service - Opinions Paul Robertson (Apr 17)
(Thread continues...)