<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Alfred Kernaghan</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alfakern@gmail.com">alfakern@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:20 PM<br>Subject: Information Request: Firewall Kit<br>To: <a href="mailto:gllug@gllugg.org.uk">gllug@gllugg.org.uk</a><br><br><br><span>Hey all,</span><div><br></div><div>I'm looking after 4 racks of
servers in London, up until now they've just been locked down as much as
possible individually using iptables on each machine (and
blocking/removing public interfaces where they're not strictly
necessary). We're in a bit of upheaval at the moment due to going for
PCI Compliance and improved security, so I'm securing/segmenting the
network as it stands. As opposed to a central software based firewall,
the company's opted to go down the hardware route and get a full fledged
firewall. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I don't have a lot of experience with
hardware/dedicated firewall appliances, but I've had recommendations for
a few different brands, Cisco, Checkpoint, Watchguard and Barracuda.
As you'd all know, attempts to ask our vendor or Google for
recommendations has been relatively fruitless in that I feel I'm getting
up-sold (as much as possible) on very biased recommendations!</div>
<div><br></div>Our requirements aren't huge, it's for a moderate to
high use UK website (runs along happily at ~12mbps on our burstable
pipe 99% of the time) and will simply need to firewall between 3
internal VLANS (1x DMZ and 2x private).<br>
<br>It's not money dependant really, I just want to get something
recommended by someone in the industry who's not in it just for a kick
back, and will support our simple requirements, with room for growth of
course.<br>
<br>Could anyone shed any light on any of the above vendors, or
recommend anyone else (I'm completely open to ideas). As a base, I've
been looking so far at the Watchguard XTM 3 or 5 series and the
equivalent model(s) from Barracuda Networks.<br>
<br><br>Cheers, and thanks in advance<br><br>Kerno
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