Marcos, ISA is a full blown firewall in its own right with the added bonus of application level filtering. I currently utilise ISA partnered with other dedicated hardware appliances like Cisco PIX, Checkpoint and Watchguard Fireboxes and it works very well. I have also used ISA on it's own in large companies (3000+ users, branch offices, etc) and equally it's still good.
A good read-up is Tom Shinder's Configuring ISA Server 2004. It debunks some of the common myths associated with ISA. Or whiz over to http://forums.isaserver.org/ Regards, Dale Network Administrator Cendant Corporation -----Original Message----- From: Marcos Marrero [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 November 2005 16:58 To: [email protected] Subject: ISA Server or Firewall Appliance? Hello to all, I have a question to see what everyone out there thinks. Here it goes... Is it better to have a firewall appliance (Checkpoint, Juniper, etc) or is ISA server enough to use as a firewall (along with all of the other options it provides)? Of course the ISA server would sit facing the internet, like a firewall would and it would have to sit on a hardened machine. Just want to know what everyone out there thinks about this configuration or idea? Regards Marcos Marrero * Banking Officer * Data Security Lloyds TSB Bank * US Information Technology _________________________________ Tel: (305) 347-6421 * Fax (305) 371-8607 ********************************************************************** This Email is intended for the exclusive use of the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not use the contents nor disclose them to any other person and you should immediately notify the sender and delete the Email. Lloyds TSB Bank plc is registered in England and Wales Number: 2065. Registered office: 25 Gresham Street, London EC2V 7HN. ********************************************************************** This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
