Re: firewall choice

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For ISA 2000 ICSA Labs Cert;
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2001/feb01/02-14isaserver.mspx

I'm sure there is one for 2004 and 2006 is probably in progress.

A nice resource for Firewall comparisons can be found at;

http://www.isaserver.org/articles/2004firewallcomparisonp1.html


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"Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]" <sbradcpa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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For a while ISA 2004 didn't have Certification.. not sure they ever got
it.

What "Certification" do you refer to?

Leythos wrote:
In article <OmoV6NbDHHA.3836@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
michael.jenkin@xxxxxxxx says...
There are firewalls built for the job like Watchguard etc but I find if
you did have ISA, it is brillient and the router firewall is just added
protection.

ISA is only certified on a stand-alone server setup, not on SBS.

While ISA may offer the level of security you think you're getting, since
it's not on a dedicated server you expose it to many configuration
threats that you would not expose it to on a dedicated system.

Most of the firewall appliance vendors offer proxy services for HTTP and
SMTP so that you can remove content from sessions before it reaches your
network - like blocking all downloads from IE browser sessions in the
range of your DHCP Scope or removing attachments based on file type in
SMTP sessions.



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Relevant Pages

  • Re: CEICW fails - several errors
    ... The firewall isn't used when ISA is installed. ... On the WAN NIC of your server the DNS has to point to the LAN IP. ... I immediately checked and ISA Server ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • RE: OWA page not displayed Outside
    ... Open ISA 2006 management console. ... Expand the server node and highlight 'Monitoring'. ... Click 'Configure Firewall Logging'. ... |> internal client as both the web proxy client and firewall client? ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • Re: ISA Proxy Failure
    ... Objects (You can click Firewall Policy and then click Toolbox on the right ... If we could start the ISA service, let's recreate new certificate in the ... Microsoft CSS Online Newsgroup Support ... This newsgroup only focuses on SBS technical issues. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • RE: OWA page not displayed Outside
    ... Open the ISA Server management console, ... On the ISA Server computer, stop the Microsoft Firewall service. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • Re: Noob question: ISA and IIS on the same server?
    ... OK, but NAT and packet filtering do *not* provide any security, that's what ... The ISA firewall already has a packet filtering function ... The DNS server, as long as its a caching-only DNS server, is fine on the ISA ...
    (microsoft.public.isa)