Personal firewall for Business users

Come somebody advise me if there is a solution available that can meet
our requirements.

We need a firewall like McAfee or the Microsoft firewall that will
allow us to restrict all ports except a few when employees use their
PC's at home. We also want to be able to have a second setting so when
the same laptop is within the network ports can be opened up as the
security is much higher. The firewall maybe switched off internally if
a solutions like this does not exist.

Another requirement is that we can manage the firewall easily for
example be able to use Ms group policy or McAfee e-policy to manage
rules.

As you may be able to tell I'm not a huge techie and the requirements
are not set in stone but any suggestions would be appreciated even is
its just things that I should consider, the client is a big corporate
so it has to be as secure as possible and as easy to manage as possible.

Riyaz.G@gmail.com

Hello there,

Many differents personnal firewalls are available, most of them with
"standard" features, such as different profiles (one for home, one for
office), ....

For now, my experience - in personnal firewalls - is limited to F-Secure
which suits our need perfectly. Coupled with its Antivirus/antispyware
feature, we find this is definitely the product we needed.

This product is easily configurable through a centralized management
station.

However, this restricts you to the windows world.

I hope this helps.

Yours sincerely,
Jean-Francois Gobin




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> Come somebody advise me if there is a solution available that can meet
> our requirements.
>
> We need a firewall like McAfee or the Microsoft firewall that will
> allow us to restrict all ports except a few when employees use their
> PC's at home. We also want to be able to have a second setting so when
> the same laptop is within the network ports can be opened up as the
> security is much higher. The firewall maybe switched off internally if
> a solutions like this does not exist.
>
> Another requirement is that we can manage the firewall easily for
> example be able to use Ms group policy or McAfee e-policy to manage
> rules.
>
> As you may be able to tell I'm not a huge techie and the requirements
> are not set in stone but any suggestions would be appreciated even is
> its just things that I should consider, the client is a big corporate
> so it has to be as secure as possible and as easy to manage as possible.
>

Jean-François Gobin

I'd recommend Sophos Client Firewall (or Sophos Endpoint Security if you
want firewall and anti-virus protection). Sophos Client Firewall is
designed exclusively for the corporate environment and offer excellent
central management and administration features and a high degree of
flexibility, and top notch technical support too - a rarity in the IT
industry.

Hope this helps

www.sophos.com

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>> Come somebody advise me if there is a solution available that can meet
>> our requirements.
>>
>> We need a firewall like McAfee or the Microsoft firewall that will
>> allow us to restrict all ports except a few when employees use their
>> PC's at home. We also want to be able to have a second setting so when
>> the same laptop is within the network ports can be opened up as the
>> security is much higher. The firewall maybe switched off internally if
>> a solutions like this does not exist.
>>
>> Another requirement is that we can manage the firewall easily for
>> example be able to use Ms group policy or McAfee e-policy to manage
>> rules.
>>
>> As you may be able to tell I'm not a huge techie and the requirements
>> are not set in stone but any suggestions would be appreciated even is
>> its just things that I should consider, the client is a big corporate
>> so it has to be as secure as possible and as easy to manage as possible.
>>
>
>

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