>My company has a VERY distributed user base with many people working from small satellite sites >and/or from home. I would love suggestions for a PC level firewall that would protect from intrusions >and also whether> hardware v. software solutions would be best. We deal with medical records so privacy of >the data is imperative. >The basic case scenario is a user working from home and connecting to the internet via cable/dsl/dial-up via >an ISP to access mail (webaccess) and upload or download data(via SSL to our public web server) that may >contain patient information.
Well if the information is that confidential and you company is of sufficient size, I would use a Nokia Checkpoint firewall and SecureRemote VPN client. I'd also recommend Softoken for password generation. Disclaimer: My 2 cents.
