Firewall Wizards: RE: Multiple firewalls from different manufactureres

["Behm, Jeffrey L." <BehmJL () bvsg com>]

> From Eugene Kuznetsov
> > Of Keith A. Glass
> > I just wish some of the vendors 
> > would allow their FW solution to be available outside the 
> > "appliance" vehicle (Yes, I'm talking about Symantec and 
> > Secure Computing. . .)
> Hmm, this is pretty interesting, because it's contrary to what I hear
> elsewhere. Could you talk about why you would rather get software
instead of
> a sealed appliance -- ignoring, for the time being, the cases where the

Before MJR can chime in (with the same, time-tested-true answer each
time)...

It's *all* software at some point...how it's packaged is somewhat
unimportant,
although I'll take a command line interface, where I can get into the
guts
and make changes, improvements, or tailoring to fit my environment over
a point-click-and-hope interface and "sealed" appliance that either fits
in my environment or it doesn't.

Why pay for the seck-sy, pretty "appliance," if you don't have to?
(Other than
because some vendor has the ear of mgmt)
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