Looking for a Firewall for a Small Business

Bryan · 2007-01-07T17:32:48+00:00

Hello all,I've got a friend who owns a small business. He's got some employeesthat like to surf the web a bit too much and wants to limit theiraccess to only a few sites. However, each employee needs to accessdifferent sites, so the typical parental control feature doesn't workso well. I've been trying to find him a firewall solution that willallow him to specify rules specific to IP addresses (similar to ACLs ina PIX I guess...), but all the router/VPN/firewall appliances I'velooked at (such as Linksys, D-Link, etc) seem to want to do URL/domainlimiting on a network-wide basis rather than based on IP. Short of mecreating a custom Linux firewall solution, does anyone know of aproduct that would meet his needs? He doesn't need VPN, so findingsomething without the VPN option would be great.

Jan 07, 2007 24 Replies

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www.BradReese.Com 19 years ago

Hi Bryan,

AmiWall

Reduce employee personal Internet usage during the working day.

Increase respect of your corporate Internet usage policy, provide open and honest feedback such as WebMail use during work hours.

Plugs into an existing proxy or firewall such as Squid.

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Sincerely,

Brad Reese Cisco Tools

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Daniel 19 years ago

Did you see the check point solution? Today they have a firewall for small business, safe@. this firewall have a webfiltering service with categories...I have this firewall installed at some customers and it's work very well. If want more information you can access this url:

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Bryan 19 years ago

Daniel,

I looked into this and it looks very promising. Since the firewall has antivirus and antispam capabilities, is it safe to not have antivirus software on the machines behind it? Do the web filtering services support white listing (block all sites, only allowing ones on a list)?

Thanks!

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Mr. Arnold 19 years ago

That would very foolish with users that will stick a CD or diskette into a drive that can have a virus, with it spreading to the machines on the network. The FW and its AV that's protecting from Internet access will most likely be nowhere to be found in a LAN situation.

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