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IDS Archives: IDS: RE: WatchGuard

IDS: RE: WatchGuard

Jon Speer (speertripwiresecurity.com)
Tue, 21 Sep 1999 09:35:14 -0700

I have used Watchguard at sites I have administered from their early days of
black boxes with the whole system written to a floppy to their current
bright red flash-memory based system. I have found them to be a reliable
firewall, though you get what you pay for. It does not seem to be highly
extensible, and you aren't likely (at least I haven't been) to find people
that have written IDS or other security software that can easily interact
with the Firebox to block IP's or react in real-time like you would find
with Cisco, Checkpoint, Axent, etc. (though I expect that to change over
time, they seem to be working hard). On the other hand, I have seen very
few attacks on the box other than DOS that effected all Linux-based systems,
and their engineering team reacted at least as quickly as I could expect any
commercial software vendor to. In fact, they seem to follow the same
philosophy as we (Tripwire) do - react immediately and with full force to
any customer support situation as the most important mission of the company.
 
The price seems pretty competitive for the feature set (DMZ segment, VPN,
etc.). I must admit, however, that I would not openly discuss any of our
firewall solutions if I did not have considerably more security in place.
 
Jon Speer
IS/Research Engineer
Tripwire Security Systems, Inc.
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Dafunquia, Facundo [mailto:syssarmiento.com.ar]
Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 2:04 PM
To: Ids (E-mail)
Subject: IDS: WatchGuard

Hello,

has anybody experiences with WatchGuard? Comments?

Thanks in advance,
Juan

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