[146323] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gregory Croft)
Wed Nov 9 10:04:19 2011
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:04:06 -0500
From: Gregory Croft <gcroft@shoremortgage.com>
To: "Jones, Barry" <BEJones@semprautilities.com>,
"nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <E36EB8E60B5EB244AAFCFEF0AF0A116D0301794C40@MS-EX7MB-P03.corp.se.sempra.com>
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Hi, I'm at a smaller company that wanted not only firewall capabilities but
application level filtering.
We went with the Palo Alto Networks.
Story is the Palo Alto founder was formerly of Netscreen/Juniper.
Anyhow. We've not had any issues with the PA500's that we use in our
environment. They also just released a smaller unit (PA200) for small
offices.
Very easy to use/operate. My only complaint is the time it takes to commit
changes.
If you have any specific questions, shoot me an email.
Hope that helps.
Greg
On 11/8/11 6:06 PM, "Jones, Barry" <BEJones@semprautilities.com> wrote:
> Hello all.
> I am potentially looking at firewall products and wanted suggestions as to the
> easiest firewalls to install, configure and maintain? I have a few small
> networks ( 50 nodes at one site, 50 odd at another, and maybe 20 at another. I
> have worked with Cisco Pix, ASA, Netscreen, and Checkpoint (Nokia), and each
> have strong and not as strong features for ease of use. Like everyone, I'm
> resource challenged and need an easy solution to stand up and operate.
>
> Feel free to ping me offline - and thank you for the assistance.
>
> ----------------------------------------
> Barry Jones - CISSP GSNA
> Project Manager II
> Sempra Energy Utilities
> (760) 271-6822
>
> P please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to.
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>
