confusion and in-decision

[anil bindal <bindal () dcmtech co in>]

Hi,

i have just joined this list to get more information on the firewalls.
we are in process of assessing a firewall for our corporate office.

Our requirements are as follows :

FW, VPN, IDS, EIM , Virus and BW management.

I would like to know the opinion of the list on following 

1)Whether i should go for a single product or for different products ?
2) If for different products, then which products are the best in their
category ?
3) In case list recomends going for different products, then can list
members share their good/bad experiences on such products ??

For a week now i am trying to search this info on the Inet but i am so
confused now.

i think that i should go for a HW based FW+VPN and i find Watch Guard is
a good option but then it does not have proper IDS and BW management.
also it does not take care of MIME attachments in outgoing emails ( i
would like to restrict my users from sending specific attachments say my
Quality procedures in .pdf files )

While my vendors say that SonicWAll is good, others say checkpoint is
good.. so much confusion..


does any one have any experience in check point applaiances such as
IP120 ? how was that ??

regards
anil bindal



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