Re: Need advice on manageable software-based firewall

From: YK (YKnot@home.invalid)
Date: 03/01/03 

From: "YK" <YKnot@home.invalid>
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 17:47:44 GMT

In news:c175a21a.0303010928.3d1ec2c3@posting.google.com, Trond Hindenes
typed:
> Hi all,
>
> We are currently reviewing software-based personal firewalls for our
> Win2000/WinXP-based laptops. The reason for this is that our employees
> spend 60-90% of their time outside our corporate network, and I need
> to deploy some kind of system to make sure they are at least
> reasonably safe when outside.
>
> I need to be able to centrally manage the config of these firewalls. I
> also need some functionality that turns it off automatically when
> in-house, so that the firewall won`t hamper our software autiting,
> group policies and all that.
>
> Any suggestions on products I should look into?
>
> best regards,
> Trond Hindenes
> Norway

AVG from Grisoft has a corporate firewall application with distributed
client management and support.

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