Anyone Still Making High End Firewall Implemented as a Windows Application?
Earlier versions of Checkpoint Firewall-1 were implemented as an application running on Microsoft Windows. Microsoft also made a great firewall ISA Server that became the Forefront firewall, and then they discontinued the product (crazy!). Does any vendor still make a high end firewall - that is comparable in features with the ones I list - that runs as a Windows application.
I am NOT looking for a host based firewall to protect the installed OS. I am looking for high end firewall software that might support up to 20 network segments and 100+ computers on those segments.
The world seems to be moving towards firewall appliances, but using an appliance if you want a large number of segments the cost can easily go over $30K. Using a software based approach, you can buy a server and quad or six-port ethernet cards and be all-in on hardware cost at under $1K. So if you can find capable software to manage that it provides huge cost effectiveness.
Are there any firewall vendors left who sell high end firewalls as Windows software?
nish
read more and respond »Posted 5 years ago by nish in Networking Firewalls
