Firewall recommendation

[Mikey]

Looking at getting a small Netscreen / Fortigate firewall for home, any particular recommendations?

Already work with Netscreen, Sidewinder and cisco ASAs at work, but they are enterprise level.

Tempted with a Netscreen 100 or a Fortigate 60.

On a Sky broadband connection with the sky standard router and I want the 2nd hardware layer etc.

 

[Mikey]

Will google the above.

Seen a Netscreen 100 for a reasonable price

 

[Mikey]

Ideally after an appliance I've decided

 

[Mikey]

What's people's thoughts on Zyxel firewalls?

Still haven't done anything about this, not after a adsl firewall

 

[Mikey]

I quite like the Fortigate units from what I've seen of them.

Ah yes forgot about those, installed a few many years back when I was working for a reseller.

 

[Mikey]

This is the whole point of using a decent firewall, they offer inline transparent virus scanning of web content. Sure, it doesn't protect you against a friends USB drive. Not to mention snort with gaurdian active response for IPS.

Firewalls are only good for saying what type of traffic is allowed, not what is within the traffic.

Correct as I was about to say this too.. Virus Scanning, content inspection, HTTPS inspection, IPS, IDS and so on.

Essentially I also wanting to have my other net devices in the DMZ
Sky +
Vodafone Sure Signal
Sony Blu Ray

As they're not PC related and I have no reason to trust them

Fortinet
Watchguard
Juniper Netscreen
Sidewinder - prob not due to ££
Cisco ASA if I can find one cheap enough

These are just a few I've thought about

Final other reason is to allow my brother to SSL VPN from Dubai

Further research this weekend, but it's got to be pretty quiet too...

 

[Mikey]

As said see what kind of price the Cyberoam stuff comes out at, they are pretty new I think and similar (a bit cheaper) to Fortigate devices.

I know a good reseller too

Hi,

Yes send me the reseller details please