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What is the Best Firewall for Servers?
Posted by: duke on: 06/28/2005 02:36 PM [ Print | 2 comment(s) ]
A follower of Slashdot has asked: What is the best firewall for servers?
"I maintain a bunch of servers (Win 2003/XP Pro) at our labs in the university. Of late, the number of attacks on the computers has been more noticeable. The university provides firewall software (Kerio) but that doesn't work with Win 2003 (works with XP). And so we keep getting hit by zombie machines taken over in the Education Department or from Liberal Arts :-). So what does the Slashdot crowd use when they need to secure their Linux and Windows servers? Does it cost less than US$100?"As you can well imagine, the Slashdot crowd had plenty to add on the subject. The discussion centers around software firewall technology.
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tvadakia Registered User Posts: 26 Joined: 2003-11-13 |
#37074 Posted on: 06/28/2005 07:24 PM
The Slashdot crowd meantions cheap OpenBSD/FreeBSD boxes. Awesome idea, but not what he was asking. He's looking for a software solution on a Windows server. But he's also looking for a solution that's under $100. I don't think that's going to happen. I worked for a company that used the new implementation of Black Ice Server protection, and that worked quite well in conjunction with the free intrusion dectection, Snort. But that begins well above the $100 mark. ZoneAlarm is too buggy. Simple routers are hardware based but might give him a small help and be within his price range. Setting up a DMZ might help as well. I guess the Slashdot crowd might have it nailed on the head after all. A used machine setup with OpenBSD or FreeBSD as a stripped-down firewall. Unique. |
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catachresis Registered User Posts: 89 Joined: 2005-05-04 |
#37075 Posted on: 06/28/2005 07:47 PM
My experience of 8signs firewall (an effective updating of the old Conseal by the programmer and sold by himself) has been overall positive. It's small, light on resources and beats-it-up on the GRC Shields-up port scan tests: Single version is $49. / 5 pack is $199. http://www.consealfirewall.com/shop/pricing.cfm?groupid=1 |