Re: Evaluating Firewall

[Rama Kant <kant () adeptech com>]

Last year we had put together the attached white paper (no marketing) on 
this topic that I can no longer resist to post.   It is general enough to 
adapt to a given security policy.

Cheers,
Rama Kant

At 06:25 PM 5/5/2003 +0530, Ravi wrote:
> Hi vineet,
> As RKP rightly suggested you test for common ALG support like MSN gaming 
> ZOne,HTTPS etc.,
>
> Do vulnerability scanning for the firewall.Search in the internet for 
> utilities like nessus etc.,
>
> Regards,
> Ravi
>
> Rama krishna prasad wrote:
> > Hi Vineet,
> > Other things which you may would like to consider are:
> >    1. Common attack detection and prevention.
> >    2. ALG Support (There are some applications that don't work
> >            without ALG support such as H.323, FTP, RTSP, SQL*NET,
> >                based on your requirement DNS for twice NAT)
> >    3. Performance.
> >    4. Flexible user interface.    5. Type of NAT support.
> >      Analyze your security requirements and make sure that    firewall 
> > satisfies your needs. "
> > From
> > RKP
> > Vineet Mehta wrote:
> >
> > > Recently I was asked to evaluate Securepoint 3.0 firewall. On what basis
> > > one should evaluate this firewall? Some of the points i can think of
> > > are:
> > >
> > > 1) Reports details/format
> > > 2) Managebility
> > > 3) Stability
> > > 4) Modules/Features
> > >
> > > Any more points or detailed things I should consider in evaluating this
> > > firewall? Any suggestion is welcome.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Regards,
> >
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