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Firewall Recommendations?

Posted by Cliff on from the only-the-best-for-your-network dept.

anomalous cohort asks: "The company that I work for is looking at upgrading to a proper firewall (sadly, we use only the MS-ISA server now). Our I.T. guy is ready to recommend Fortigate [45]00a. Ours is a small company with about a dozen employees and about 400 customers. Does anybody have any experiences, good or bad, with these two products or with the Fortinet company? Are there any recommended firewalls (outside of Cisco's) that we should seriously look at?"

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  1. If you need this advice.... by Anonymous+MadCoe · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I am wondering...

    Did you go out and research yourself?
    Have you thought about what your company actually needs (are there policies, expectations from the business etc...)?
    How much do you know about he subject? In other words, if you need to ask, maybe you are not qualified to be involved... Thought of getting a professional (!= /.) advice? Do you honesly think that people hee will ive you a good view on the subject?

    Think about it....

    1. Re:If you need this advice.... by Anonymous+MadCoe · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      "I think there is almost no field of IT where that many totally incompetent people are trying to sell snakeoil than IT security."

      Which is no less on /. if you're not able to filter that stuff out yourself, the /. crowd will present you with some good advice but mainly crap.

      The crap on /. is possibly worse than in the commercial world. The commercial world still has an incentive (most of the time) to make the customer happy. The /. crowd's avice is maily driver my personal prefrence and zealotry...

      I think you assume that advice on /. in the area of security is of good quality. I tend to disagree.