Different Firewalls

[SIMMN]

Hey,

We choose ASA/SA pretty much whenever we need to deploy a gateway or firewall. However today at a conference, there were checkpoint and palo alto networks there besides Cisco. So that makes me think shold we ever consider either palo alto or checkpoint?

If so, in what scenario? I do not have experience with either palo alto or checkpoint products. So another question what is the benifit comparing with Cisco ASA/SA?

P.S. I still do not feel comfortable about so-called all-in-one (firewall, IPS, Content filter, Email filter etc.) firewall...

[jocamare]

This threat has some interesting comments about Cisco and PA firewalls:

https://supportforums.cisco.com/thread/2011246

About Checkpoint vs Cisco, there are several of these threats online, i didn't wanrt to paste a bunch of links, but the first results of a google search will give you some good links.

[SIMMN]

Thanks,

I will go through that