Re: [Full-Disclosure] PIX vs CheckPoint

From: John Kinsella (jlk_at_thrashyour.com)
Date: 06/29/04

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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 14:18:19 -0700

    On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 01:24:05PM -0500, Darkslaker wrote:
    > i am studying for the CCSA and my Friend for CSPFA in the interchange of
    > ideas we did not find differences significant; maybe two ; PIX run in OS
    > for CISCO and CheckPoint in many platforms; and checkPoit have more
    > products.
    > My question is PIX or Checkpoint what is better and why.

    I think one good point which hasn't been brought up yet is if you need
    to manage security at one or many enforcement points - Checkpoint scales
    much nicer for centralized management across multiple management points
    (or multiple companies for MSPs) with FW-1 and P-1 than anything I've
    seen from Cisco.

    Personally I was scarred by some bugs in various 5.x versions of PIX
    software.

    (oh and to echo the point of another person, PLEASE, for the love of
    (insert 1+ diety) do not run a firewall on a Windows OS)

    John

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