Rik Farrow maintains such information for comparison shopping at
http://www.gocsi.com/firewall.htm.
Start with hardening the e-commerce servers, though, please (even if they
are protected by a firewall). And consider getting outside help (unless you
are being very modest as to why you were tasked with this).
Fred
At 03:03 PM 12/22/00 +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>[ Yes, I checked the archives; there doesn't seem to be anything more
> recent than the DataComm thread a year ago. ]
>
>Is there a resource e.g. website that keeps an up-to-date firewall
>comparison? I've just been put in charge of recommending a product to
>protect an e-commerce site (since I was caught reading Cheswick and
>Bellovin, and Chapman and Zwicky, I guess); names bandied about were
>WatchGuard (Linux based), Checkpoint FW-1, etc. Their web pages seem to
>be full of marketing fluff, so being a techie-head I'd appreciate pointers
>to a more objective source.
>
>-- Dave
>
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