Sean,
It looks like Cisco4NG has given you quite a bit of ammunition for the
fight. I have to agree with him, that Check Point has some features that
just can't be done with the ASA box without some serious architecture
changes. In the past, when I've helped customers make the migration from
Check Point, a couple things always crop up. The first is that policy
migration doesn't happen without quite a bit of leg work. The second is
that the amount of time to resolve issues doubles after the migration
happens. Excluding small IT departments, usually people have been hired for
their current knowledgebase and they usually know what's currently in
place. Now you've got to deal with new headaches, and those just take
longer to work out by everyone involved.
Just to throw some more information your way, take a look at the Juniper
boxes. They are appliances, and have a GUI editor for policies (NSM). The
pricing includes support, and on top of that, Juniper support seems to be
some of the best in the industry.
Jason
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Our company is considering replacing our Checkpoint firewall for a Cisco
ASA-5520 appliance. Does anyone on this list have any experience with ASA
box, and if so what is your opinion on them. We are currently running
R55 on our Corrent SR200 appliance, and are looking at migrating to a Dell
Poweredge 1950 server with R61/R62 (not sure which is best to go to).
I need some ammunition on pros/cons of Cisco compared to Checkpoint.
Any information would greatly be appreciated.
Thanks,
Sean
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