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Perimeter Firewall: Which to choose?
| Posted by andretenreiro, 08-20-2011, 06:32 AM |
| We are a telco, we want to protect and isolate our mission critical servers by creating a perimeter protected by a Firewall from the rest of the network.
We already have a Cisco ASA 5510 as the border/internet FW, but my though it not to choose the same brand. Why? If an attacker is able to bypass/exploit the Cisco ASA, probably he can use the same breach to bypass the perimeter FW (if it's cisco).
I don't know which FW to choose... we have 3 possible candidates: Cisco ASA, CheckPoint or Juniper. (I have only experience with Cisco).
Please let me know what you experience & recommendations are.
Thanks,
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| Posted by brianoz, 08-20-2011, 10:20 AM |
| Whichever you use, it should be different from the border firewall, as you say. I don't know enough to specifically recommend, though Juniper may be a good choice just from the brand.
You may also want to use a host-level firewall.
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| Posted by andretenreiro, 08-20-2011, 10:12 PM |
| Hello, yes I will implement host and web application firewall as well.
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| Posted by macmat, 08-20-2011, 11:08 PM |
| I don't know what throughput you need but if you're familiar with Cisco Juniper is an easy learn and one I'd prefer
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