RE: Client End Firewalls

Grant.Orchard_at_aws.aust.com
Date: 10/05/04

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    To: staylor@velectric.com
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    Hi Scott,

    I should have provided more detail sorry. I'm looking to centrally manage
    this. Employees will be given basic training, more for awareness than "how
    to" knowledge. We are planning on developing a corporate rule set which we
    can modify upon legitimate requests.

    We recently had our comms company come out and tell us about the "great new
    zone labs product". Of course, I don't trust them not to be impartial so I
    thought you guys could provide some help.
    1. Are client side firewalls worth having (yes)
    2. Have you had any experience with Zone Labs
    3. If not, what client firewall product would you recommend?

    Thanks a lot

    Grant Orchard
    IT Coordinator
    Australian Water Services
    02 9224 7916
    0403 457 315

                                                                               
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    What would be a good one to implement? I would be interested in knowing:
    1. Would you train all employee's on managing the local firewall?
    2. Would you just have your IT people configure it and not let individual
    users mess with it?
    3. It seems it could create a lot of administration overhead.

    Thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated.

    Scott

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Steve [mailto:securityfocus@delahunty.com]
    Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 6:21 AM
    To: security-basics@securityfocus.com; Grant.Orchard@aws.aust.com
    Subject: Re: Client End Firewalls

    These can be very effective at blocking incoming traffic to the
    workstations
    and also the ones like from Symantec get firewall policy/rule updates
    downloaded periodically.

    Consider the situation where some of your folks with laptops are at a
    customer site, or a vendor site - they are wide open to threats without
    desktop firewall protection. Consider the situation where a worm gets
    inside your network somehow, it will bounce around infecting many machines
    if there is no desktop protection.

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: <Grant.Orchard@aws.aust.com>
    To: <security-basics@securityfocus.com>
    Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 12:27 AM
    Subject: Client End Firewalls

    Hi guys,

    How much protection do you believe client side firewalls provide? My boss
    has asked for my thoughts on a system like Zone Labs are now offering. Can
    anyone provide me with their thoughts on what benefits this actually
    provides?

    Many thanks

    Grant Orchard
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