Re: Firewall to Staff Ratio

Texas Fireant wrote:
Can anyone provide guidance to how one might calculate how much staff
is necessary to support a Checkpoint firewall pair?

I know that this ratio may be impacted by several factors (i.e, the
size of the user base or the number of supported applications), but a
ballpark figure and the basis for the ratio is appreciated.
Alternatively, if one can direct me to a tool for calculating this
metric, I would be grateful.

Thanks

Depending on the size of your company it might make sense to get a partner for serious system stuff,
(set up, upgrades, licensing...)and therefore avoid training costs of your staff.
Checkpoint is very powerfull and very complex.
But once it is up and running and your network is fairly static, a network engineer can learn how to add rules and read logs.

We have customers with several clusters around the country, dozens of networks and almost any CP feature installed- they have two sec. engineers dedicated to CP - incl. 24/7 hotline.
also depends if IT is your core business or not.

hth
M
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