Security Basics: Re: Need secure firewall for SOHO

[Sebastian <security-basics () helsinki fi eu org>]

I might recommend Sygate personal firewall as a backup.

You can try it <http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm>. It's 
good and clean. Business use will require a license though. And no, I'm 
not getting any kickbacks for this.
regards,

-Sebastian


DAmbrosia, Jim wrote:

> To the group,
>
> I have a colleague who has a SOHO network using ADSL.  He is using a standard Linksys router for his firewall, but has reached a limit in the number of ports it can open and manage.  I don't have one on hand to check, but evidently the Linksys only has ten slots to configure ports to be opened and he needs 12-15 or so.  
>
> Without a lot of money he wants to get a different firewall up and running that has more ports that it can manage.  
> I suggested the free version of zone alarm as the only free one I'm aware of; however it turns out that he wrote his thesis on how you can crack zone alarm.
> Looking for another much more secure solution?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim,
>
>