Hi guys If this is OT, send someone over with a spiked club to teach me, but I thought I'd ask this list. :)
The current .co I work for has a set of firewalls being 'x' yrs old, still based on FreeBSD 2.2.6 with some friendly interfaces etc. At the time of their purchase much of it was a 'gholf course decision'. Now for the new budget period we're trying to justify spending the money on upgrading the units to Checkpoint's FW-1. In a RFI I sent it, it came out on top, and while a FreeBSD / Linux solution would be great, not enough people understand it to make hand-over and maintainance of it easy enough. Also not all the functions on the RFI was needed, making it not a powerfull enough object for argument over the older units. Can anyone assist me in advice in how to prove to management without a doubt that the older units are in deed worth replacing? While I can prove 'x' amount of nmap scans, not to mention the lack of stateful inspection in the boxen, this is not convincing enough. I'm looking for someone with some business savvy that may know of a whitepaper on such a problem or anything of help. Kind regards Pieter _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls
