I will be learning Fortinet soon enough since we got a bunch of them in as replacements for Juniper's.
Z Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.org This electronic message and any attachments may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If you are reading this message, but are not the intended recipient, nor an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you are strictly prohibited from copying, printing, forwarding or otherwise disseminating this communication. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by replying to the message. Then, delete the message from your computer. Thank you. [Description: Description: Lifespan] From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 5:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Guest network security I'll choose a Fortinet over an ASA every day of the week... ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker<http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker> Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations & Information Security) for the SMB market... On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Ziots, Edward <ezi...@lifespan.org<mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org>> wrote: LOL Cisco bigot... why is that sooo familiar. He would probably like Fortinet better if he knew the price and performance was way better than ASA's. ( Found those to be clugy)_ Z Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.org<mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org> This electronic message and any attachments may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If you are reading this message, but are not the intended recipient, nor an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you are strictly prohibited from copying, printing, forwarding or otherwise disseminating this communication. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by replying to the message. Then, delete the message from your computer. Thank you. -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com<mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com>] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 3:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Guest network security Our Sidewinders are EOL at the end of April, and my manager doesn't like them. He's a Cisco bigot, and wants ASAs in here. I'm fighting him to at least take a look at the Palo Alto platform, or perhaps the newest iteration of the Sidewinders (which are now called McAfee Enteprise Firewalls). That's an interesting tip on the Sophos solution. What did you use for the hardware? Kurt On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Richard Stovall <rich...@gmail.com<mailto:rich...@gmail.com>> wrote: > I was going to suggest using the SonicPoint solution from SonicWall, > but you've got Sidewinders, don't you? > > Does McAfee have anything like SonicWall's wireless solution where > it's all managed from the firewall? > > PS Sophos has this too, and they give their UTM firewall away free > for home use. Just bring your own hardware. I just switched to this > the other day and love it so far. I should write a blog post about > it. (But then I'd have to create a blog...) > > > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Kurt Buff > <kurt.b...@gmail.com<mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> All, >> >> Quite some time ago, I set up an unsecured guest VLAN in our network, >> providing wireless access to all of the sundry devices that staff and >> visitors carry. I set up a small FreeBSD machine to serve IP >> addresses via DHCP, and that was dead simple. >> >> It is a layer2 VLAN, traversing our backbone, and terminating on our >> corporate firewall. >> >> However, there are now other tenants in our building, and the subnet >> is getting too much bandwidth and address consumption - the range I >> set up is completely filled, and the VLAN is consuming about half of >> our Internet pipe, which is far too much for my comfort. >> >> I suspect the other tenants are leeching. >> >> What I've read of captive portals seems to indicate that the portal >> is part of the firewall. I could be wrong about that, though. >> Regardless, the corporate firewall will not be allowed to be part of this >> solution. >> >> The only other alternative I see right now is to set up a password on >> the SSID, and have the front desk hand it out to guests, after >> mailing it to staff, and I'm getting pushback on that from my manager. >> >> Does anyone have some ideas I could pursue on this? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Kurt >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ >> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to >> listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to > listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
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