Gary, eSafe is a good product, offering good value for money and a high level of security and spam protection that goes well beyond the average 'keyword matching' technologies in many other products. The suitability of the product does however depend on what you are trying to achieve. Currently the largest weakness of the product is it's relatively weak reporting and policy management features (If you have lots of users or departments with different requirements it may not be ideal). I have to admit I'm not a huge fan of the CVP technology, though we have and do deploy this configuration for clients. I would typically deploy eSafe SMTP as a secure mail server in a DMZ. I can't remember off the top of my head but I think the CVP implementation may have a few constraints for SMTP features that the dedicated eSafe SMTP deployment does not have (this certainly used to be the case). If you want to do content filtering for other traffic (HTTP, FTP, Instant Messenger client, P2P software, URL filtering and I believe POP3 may be being added) etc... then the eSafe product has strong capabilities in this area and should ideally be deployed on a second device. Once again I have to caveat this with the below average reporting and policy capabilities.
In terms of performance it is good (vastly better than WebSweeper which is slow...). The security is second to none with a great deal of pro-active technologies for blocking malicious code before virus definitions are even released. The product can be deployed in different configurations - CVP, Bridge, Router, Proxy and dedicated secure SMTP server. When v5 of the product is released towards the end of this year the management will improve with integration with LDAP and/or Active Directory. They are also introducing an improved spam reporting feature which will apparently allow users to receive a summarised report of all blocked spam and then request to release individual items if desired. Overall it is a good product that provides very good protection tackling a broad range of security problems. If you want in-depth policy management and rich reporting however you will struggle until v5 is released at which point I'm hopeful this area will improve also. Hope this helps. Regards, John -----Original Message----- From: Mailing list for discussion of Firewall-1 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brett, Gary Sent: 21 April 2004 17:20 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FW-1] eSafe with NG Does anybody use eSafe by Alladin software, it has been reccommended as a good anti spam solution for my DMZ, but i wanted to hear it from other NG admins, how does it integrate with NG ? , what are the HTTP Proxy , anti virus and content filtering programs like, are they effective ?. Have any of you experienced issues with this product, how much does it cost ? Any advice would be greatly appreciated Gary This electronic message contains information from Halifax Cetelem Credit Ltd which may be privileged or confidential. The information is intended to be for the use of the individual(s) or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. If you have received this electronic message in error, please notify us by telephone or email (to the numbers or address above) immediately. ================================================= To set vacation, Out-Of-Office, or away messages, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the BODY of the email add: set fw-1-mailinglist nomail ================================================= To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ================================================= If you have any questions on how to change your subscription options, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================= ******************************************************************************** This electronic mail system is used for information purposes and is not intended to form any legal contract or binding agreement. The content is confidential and may be legally privileged. Access by anyone other than the addressee(s) is unauthorised and any disclosure, copying, distribution or any other action taken in reliance on it is prohibited and may be unlawful. All incoming and outgoing e-mail communications and attachments are scanned automatically by software designed to detect and remove any material containing viruses or other unauthorised content. While we undertake best endeavours to ensure that this content checking software is up to date, recipients should take steps to assure themselves that e-mails received are secure. *************************************************************************************** ================================================= To set vacation, Out-Of-Office, or away messages, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the BODY of the email add: set fw-1-mailinglist nomail ================================================= To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ================================================= If you have any questions on how to change your subscription options, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] =================================================
