Re: What to use for a Firewall device?

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In my opinion you should upgrade to Premium for ISA server. This is almost
as inexpensive as any hardware Firewall that will give you comparable
protection and you get SQL and Frontpage thrown in.

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Frank McCallister SBS MVP
COMPUMAC
"Stephen" <stephen346_news@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1120533698.184151.308850@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hello,
>
> I have the SBS 2003 w/o sp1, standard edition.
>
> We have added a cable modem to the office, and have yet to engage it.
> We need some firewall in place, and personal the one that is part of
> SBS 2003 standard, I do not think is hardened enough.
>
> I have two NIC's in the SBS 2003 server, and currently the server is
> the DHCP server as well.
>
> We have disabled a fair number of the remote access parts of the
> server, and really need to be sure that all outside access is disabled.
>
> I also only have the Exchange set up for Internal e-mail, and would
> like
> some way to confirm that it is not wanting to fetch or send send any
> e-mail.
>
> I am think in of a Hareware device, Watchguard, Cisco 501 pix. I am
> open to ideas, may be the ISA server or some other Firewall OS/software
> in a PC.
>
> I am really wanting to try to keep the One NIC in the server pointing
> to the internal network, and the second NIC pointed to the Wild
> internet.
>
> If I had my way this office network would NEVER see the Internet at
> all. This network must be very Secure, very tight, think of it as if I
> had every bit of health info on you and all of your banking info in
> toto.
>
> If you can point me to some good reference sites, that work be very
> helpful as well.
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> Stephen
>


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