Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance?

Wed Nov 9 02:09:09 UTC 2011

We work with many vendor's firewalls and our current "favorites" are Palo Alto Networks - they're very full-featured and easy to manage.

www.paloaltonetworks.com

I don't want to get all "sales-weasel" on you but we can help if you want more info as we are one of their premier partners.

P.S. - we're also Juniper and Cisco partners too but we prefer the Palo Altos for firewalls these days.

Let me know how I can help

-Ben

R. Benjamin Kessler
CCIE #8762, CISSP, CCSE
President / Chief Network Geek
Zenetra Corporation
Email: ben.kessler at zenetra.com
http://www.zenetra.com
Office: 260-271-4330 << Note: New Number
Cell: 260-437-5774
Fax: 866-388-6652

-----Original Message-----
From: Jones, Barry [mailto:BEJones at semprautilities.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 6:07 PM
To: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance?

Hello all.
I am potentially looking at firewall products and wanted suggestions as to the easiest firewalls to install, configure and maintain? I have a few small networks ( 50 nodes at one site, 50 odd at another, and maybe 20 at another. I have worked with Cisco Pix, ASA, Netscreen, and Checkpoint (Nokia), and each have strong and not as strong features for ease of use. Like everyone, I'm resource challenged and need an easy solution to stand up and operate.

Feel free to ping me offline - and thank you for the assistance.

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Barry Jones - CISSP GSNA
Project Manager II
Sempra Energy Utilities
(760) 271-6822

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