3 May 2012 16:21
Fwd: Information Request: Firewall Kit
Alfred Kernaghan <alfakern <at> gmail.com>
2012-05-03 14:21:09 GMT
2012-05-03 14:21:09 GMT
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From: Alfred Kernaghan <alfakern <at> gmail.com>
Date: Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:20 PM
Subject: Information Request: Firewall Kit
To: gllug <at> gllugg.org.uk
Hey all,
Our requirements aren't huge, it's for a moderate to
high use UK website (runs along happily at ~12mbps on our burstable
pipe 99% of the time) and will simply need to firewall between 3
internal VLANS (1x DMZ and 2x private).
It's not money dependant really, I just want to get something recommended by someone in the industry who's not in it just for a kick back, and will support our simple requirements, with room for growth of course.
Could anyone shed any light on any of the above vendors, or recommend anyone else (I'm completely open to ideas). As a base, I've been looking so far at the Watchguard XTM 3 or 5 series and the equivalent model(s) from Barracuda Networks.
Cheers, and thanks in advance
Kerno
From: Alfred Kernaghan <alfakern <at> gmail.com>
Date: Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:20 PM
Subject: Information Request: Firewall Kit
To: gllug <at> gllugg.org.uk
Hey all,
I'm looking after 4 racks of
servers in London, up until now they've just been locked down as much as
possible individually using iptables on each machine (and
blocking/removing public interfaces where they're not strictly
necessary). We're in a bit of upheaval at the moment due to going for
PCI Compliance and improved security, so I'm securing/segmenting the
network as it stands. As opposed to a central software based firewall,
the company's opted to go down the hardware route and get a full fledged
firewall.
I don't have a lot of experience with
hardware/dedicated firewall appliances, but I've had recommendations for
a few different brands, Cisco, Checkpoint, Watchguard and Barracuda.
As you'd all know, attempts to ask our vendor or Google for
recommendations has been relatively fruitless in that I feel I'm getting
up-sold (as much as possible) on very biased recommendations!
It's not money dependant really, I just want to get something recommended by someone in the industry who's not in it just for a kick back, and will support our simple requirements, with room for growth of course.
Could anyone shed any light on any of the above vendors, or recommend anyone else (I'm completely open to ideas). As a base, I've been looking so far at the Watchguard XTM 3 or 5 series and the equivalent model(s) from Barracuda Networks.
Cheers, and thanks in advance
Kerno
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