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RE: Personal Firewall Recommendations
From: "Halverson, Chris" <chris.halverson () encana com>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 09:20:44 -0600
Sygate Personal Firewall is a very good product as well. Chris -----Original Message----- From: Nigel Hedges [mailto:netethix () iprimus com au] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 5:48 PM To: security-basics () securityfocus com Subject: Re: Personal Firewall Recommendations Hi, The personal firewalls I have used predominantly are ZoneAlarms and Tiny. Whilst their interfaces are different, they both are good. I use a machine that I have setup for home and corporate use. I found ZoneAlarms to block a few network services before I had chance to decide on their fate (ie. during an asset managed/software delivery type login process. Tiny didn't have the same issues... and what I liked about Tiny Firewall 5.0 is that it has a built in Host-based IDS/IPS which I haven't checked out all the functions, but so far looks like you can detect against access controls to the system and check against a wide range of vulnerabilities/exploits yada yada yada... Tiny's Firewall learning mode offers some pretty intuitive choices, so your friend will have to go through an initial period to accept/deny aspects of his normal interconnectivity behaviour, such as what programs he believes is trusted and should run, and allow/deny on inbound internet connectivity and outbound internet connectivity. The decisions (as you would expect) are based on a once off or always mentality. Last thing, (and a) this doesnt apply to home use and; b) I dont work for Tiny) I havent' seen their management layer, but their website says it can scale up to hundreds/thousands of desktop firewalls. I'll be keenly watching and evaluating their enterprise management layer, as in a corporate enterprise this is a must. I hope it allows for remote policy pushing to groups or individual desktop firewalls, aswell as a central or hierarchical alerting/logging facility ... Nigel H CISSP, CISA, Security+ ----- Original Message ----- From: <security () mafisi com> To: <security-basics () securityfocus com> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 2:56 AM Subject: Re: Personal Firewall Recommendations
I would recommend Ipcop; It requires a dedicated box but works great for me. I run it on a P75 http://www.ipcop.org-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've been installing a new system for a friend, and am wondering what personal firewalls might be recommended for a home system running Windows 2000 on a T1 line. Anyone have a recommendation other than ZoneAlarm? Thanks. - -- Kryptos kryptos () phreaker net 925.955.8110 AIM: iKryptos ICQ: 3240272 IRC: Kryptos (irc.icq.com) MSN: ikryptos () yahoo com Y!: ikryptos Hush Secure Messenger: ikryptos () hush com - -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GAT/L/O d-@ s+:+ a@ C+++ !U P L E-- W+++ N++ !o K--- w--- !O M V- PS+ PE Y++ PGP-(+) t- 5- X+ R !tv b++++ DI++++ D--- G++ e++ h++$ r- y--- - ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQA/AwUBPzyvBKi0gyp0Po7mEQLnUgCgqydkezjV/4WV/xgLo5NDWTMmu+cAoIcI blZaXBzIE4S+K9TN08EeqKjb =SsR0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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- Re: Personal Firewall Recommendations Nigel Hedges (Aug 19)
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