RE: ISA Server or Firewall Appliance?

Marcos,

ISA is a full blown firewall in its own right with the added bonus of
application level filtering. I currently utilise ISA partnered with other
dedicated hardware appliances like Cisco PIX, Checkpoint and Watchguard
Fireboxes and it works very well. I have also used ISA on it's own in large
companies (3000+ users, branch offices, etc) and equally it's still good.

A good read-up is Tom Shinder's Configuring ISA Server 2004. It debunks some
of the common myths associated with ISA.

Or whiz over to http://forums.isaserver.org/

Regards,

Dale

Network Administrator
Cendant Corporation



-----Original Message-----
From: Marcos Marrero [mailto:mmarrero@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 15 November 2005 16:58
To: focus-ms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: ISA Server or Firewall Appliance?


Hello to all, 

I have a question to see what everyone out there thinks. Here it goes...

Is it better to have a firewall appliance (Checkpoint, Juniper, etc) or
is ISA server enough to use as a firewall (along with all of the other
options it provides)?

Of course the ISA server would sit facing the internet, like a firewall
would and it would have to sit on a hardened machine. 

Just want to know what everyone out there thinks about this
configuration or idea?

Regards 
Marcos Marrero * Banking Officer * Data Security 
Lloyds TSB Bank * US Information Technology 
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Tel: (305) 347-6421 * Fax (305) 371-8607 



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