Tag: Firewall

Short Story: UTMs Are Not a Panacea

One of my customers is an admin who works within a small portion of a larger institution. The main administrative group decided to overhaul their primary firewalls with UTM devices instead, which included spam and virus filtering for MTAs (Mail Transfer Agents). Can a UTM device replace a dedicated device? (Dec 10, 2010)

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Less Linux, more Windows

I’ve always been a pro-Linux type of guy. I started using Unix back in 1992 (SunOS) and then onto Slackware, Red Hat, Ubuntu. Linux offered so many more features, security, power to do anything and a reliability Windows couldn’t dream of at the time. Linux was a true multitasking OS, had a firewall, and all internet clients and servers one may want or need: pop3, smtp, http, ftp, ssh. All these were virtually impossible to do on MS-DOS or Windows, and I’m not even talking about the various crashes and ridiculous uptimes of the early Microsoft platforms. Since then, and up until a few months ago, it’s always been clear to me: reliability and security on Linux; office work, graphical user interface and leisure on Windows. (Feb 05, 2010)

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Welcome back, dear Customer!

Email Security product and solution vendors rely heavily on customer loyalty and retention. The recipe for achieving this is different for every company. What never changes is the total joy of winning back a customer that left for some reason, tried the competition and then returned. (Jan 15, 2010)

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Security Back to Basics

You can use Windows Routing and Remote Access (RRAS) for firewalling purposes. It's fairly simple to setup as well. (Aug 21, 2009)

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