Security Basics: Re: Sonicwall

["Gaddis, Jeremy L." <jeremy () linuxwiz net>]

Dennis Rogers wrote:
> > My request to list members is: could you please share your experience 
> > of Sonic wall in terms of effectiveness of AV, IPS/IDS, content 
> > filtering services.  
> We ran Sonic Wall where I work for about 1 year.  It worked well but 
> started crashing a lot on us.  Turned out that the product we were sold 
> was under powered for our network.  The cost of the proper unit was very 
> high.  The best solution we found was Dan's Guardian.  While it takes 
> more manpower to setup and slightly more to maintain, the cost savings 
> were WELL worth it.
I have a customer (public library) who used to have a TZ170 to do 
content-filtering (see CIPA).  After numerous issues with it, it finally 
just outright died.  Now, a small PC running IPCop with DansGuardian is 
doing the same job, doing it better, and costing them thousands less in 
the long run.
YMMV,
-j

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Jeremy L. Gaddis, GCWN, Linux+, Network+
LinuxWiz Consulting
http://www.linuxwiz.net/

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