Firewall Management
Hello,
I would appreciate any comments on firewall management.
I recently have been faced with the choice between paying for a firewall management service at $1000+ in setup costs and $175 / month there after or deciding on managing the firewall myself.
We have hired some outside contractors to setup our networks and they have built this firewall management service into their proposal, but I am not sure that we necessarily need it and would like to remove it from the proposal to save some cash.
The outside contractors chose the Cisco ASA5510 and the managed firewall service for the box will include:
- security updates in the form of patches, releases and upgrades
- policy administration
- event log analysis
- enforcement point management
- incident detection
Basically, I am asking, is it worth it? Would it be hard to manage the firewall on my own? I am a programmer with a basic understanding of networks.
Thanks in advance...
read more and respond »Posted 5 years ago by sickfaichezi in Networking Firewalls
