Re: ISA Server for Firewall - Recommendations Please

From: David (davidwnh@adelphia.net)
Date: 12/30/02 

From: "David" <davidwnh@adelphia.net>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 03:19:47 GMT

I use ISA server and am quite happy with it. When considering its price et
al. I think it is best served in an environment in which you will be not
only firewalling inbound traffic but also where you want to control your
enterprises outbound access. If you are simply looking to protect a
webserver you may be better served with something that requires less
overhead and provides only the functionality that you require. Are you
running a standalone IIS webserver? Do you already have a firewall at the
perimeter? Do you need to protect this server internally as well as from the
internet? If you have a perimeter firewall you may only need to configure
your perimeter firewall for basic packet filtering to your webserver and add
IDS and URL scanning to the server itself. If you need to protect the server
internally as well you could use a very inexpensive router to do the more
extensive filtering. Of course in either case this is in addition to the
usual os "hardening" of the webserver itself.

All in all are you just looking to protect just a webserver or do you have
other firewalling needs as well?

"Interflex" <interflex@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:92c70b2c.0212291056.14a7a6bc@posting.google.com...
> I am trying to get a handle on the correct firewall to use for our
> webserver. We get about 1 Million Page views a month/10Gb of traffic.
> Should I use ISA or should I go with something like SonicWall, Nokia,
> or PIX? Does anyone have some experince with ISA and maybe some other
> types of firewalls?

Relevant Pages

  • RE: OWA page not displayed Outside
    ... Open the ISA Server management console, ... On the ISA Server computer, stop the Microsoft Firewall service. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • RE: OWA page not displayed Outside
    ... Open the ISA Server management console, ... On the ISA Server computer, stop the Microsoft Firewall service. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • RE: OWA page not displayed Outside
    ... Open ISA 2006 management console. ... Expand the server node and highlight 'Monitoring'. ... Click 'Configure Firewall Logging'. ... |> internal client as both the web proxy client and firewall client? ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • Re: ISA auf Webserver
    ... >zusaetzliche Komponenten auf einer Firewall zu installieren. ... was soll dieser Webserver machen? ... Dabei bildet das dritte NIC die DMZ, ... ISA als Edgefirewall und dann interner Webserver, ...
    (microsoft.public.de.german.isaserver)
  • RE: Firewall service and remoteaccess service shut down frequently
    ... Do you have run the CEICW after installing the ISA components? ... please open SBS server management console, ... Click the Add Adapter button, and add your internal network adapter ... Meanwhile, from the subject, you said you the firewall service and RRAS ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)