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Re: appliance firewall

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On 5/15/2011 8:16 PM, Todd wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have a client with several small facilities.  She is going
> through a security audit with an insurance company that insures
> again credit card theft.  As part of the audit process, the
> insurance company runs a scan against her routers.
> 
> Problem: the el-cheapo router-of-the-day from the various ISP's
> that she uses fail this scan.
> 
> So I have been researching appliance firewalls for her.  Watchguard
> seems to have a good product, but I have never used them.
> 
> At some point Google does not fill the bill and you have to ask
> for others personal experiences.  Does anyone have a favorite
> appliance firewall they have used and would recommend?  Hopefully,
> one that does not break the bank.

I've installed 100s of the SonicWALL appliances for clients at
everything from small sole proprietorships to medium-sized corporations
since the 1990s.  Not one breakin, ever:

    <http://www.sonicwall.com/>
    <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SonicWALL>

They have solutions from inexpensive hardcover-book-sized appliances
to large rack-mounted devices:

    <http://www.sonicwall.com/us/products/TZ_Series.html#tab=models>
to
    <http://www.sonicwall.com/us/products/SuperMassive_Series.html>

Here's a picture of my network demarc incorporating a SonicWALL
TZ170 with WAN, LAN and DMZ ports all at 100Mbps:

    <http://thadlabs.com/PIX/ThadLABS_network_demarc.jpg>

and here's a picture of about 1/3 of the computers on my home LAN
behind that firewall:

    <http://thadlabs.com/PIX/Thad_desk.jpg>

SonicWALL is literally a plug'n'play solution that just works.

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appliance firewall Todd <Todd@invalid.com> - 2011-05-15 20:16 -0700
  Re: appliance firewall Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2011-05-15 20:32 -0700
  Re: appliance firewall Thad Floryan <thad@thadlabs.com> - 2011-05-15 21:51 -0700
    Re: appliance firewall Todd <Todd@invalid.com> - 2011-05-16 20:37 -0700
      Re: appliance firewall Todd <Todd@invalid.com> - 2011-05-16 20:39 -0700
      Re: appliance firewall Thad Floryan <thad@thadlabs.com> - 2011-05-17 02:05 -0700
        Re: appliance firewall Todd <Todd@invalid.com> - 2011-05-17 10:39 -0700
          Re: appliance firewall The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-17 19:41 +0100
            Re: appliance firewall Todd <Todd@invalid.com> - 2011-05-17 12:23 -0700
              Re: appliance firewall Todd <Todd@invalid.com> - 2011-05-17 12:24 -0700
              Re: appliance firewall The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-18 01:13 +0100
                Re: appliance firewall Todd <Todd@invalid.com> - 2011-05-18 09:32 -0700
                Re: appliance firewall The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-18 21:18 +0100
                Re: appliance firewall Todd <Todd@invalid.com> - 2011-05-19 12:13 -0700
  Re: appliance firewall The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-16 12:53 +0100
  Re: appliance firewall technomaNge <cowpaddy@bullshit.net> - 2011-05-16 20:34 -0500
    Re: appliance firewall The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-17 10:55 +0100
  Re: appliance firewall Mark <i@dontgetlotsofspamanymore.invalid> - 2011-05-17 10:08 +0100
    Re: appliance firewall Todd <Todd@invalid.com> - 2011-05-17 10:53 -0700
      Re: appliance firewall Mark <i@dontgetlotsofspamanymore.invalid> - 2011-05-18 09:17 +0100
        Re: appliance firewall Todd <Todd@invalid.com> - 2011-05-18 09:31 -0700

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