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WHICH is a better solution for network security, Software Firewalls or Hardware Firewalls? and WHY?

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Question added by Aladdin Attopy , ASSISTANT IT MANAGER , MAF Carrefour Head Office
Date Posted: 2015/06/23
Youssef Mohamed
by Youssef Mohamed , IT Manager , i-STEPS

The answer should be based one the below criteria:

1. do you look for security solution specific as you mentioned firewall solutions based on limited budget.

2. what is the size of your organization.

3. what exactly the roles you are looking for in deploying a new firewall.

the firewall software based is good from the cost perspective such as Linux firewall but you need to be have the skill that let you manage it. there is a alternative option such as Untangle is GUI but you need to subscribe per module.

firewall based software is not bad option because you have the same functionality of a firewall appliance with low cost.

hardware firewall is in most cases expensive such as fortigate, F5. but have more capability than the software based firewall. for example in fortigate you can purchase another device called forti analyzer that collect the information form many firewalls deployed in your network and give you a real view about what exactly happen within you network.

now the firewall become unified threat management that have beside the firewall capability, IPS, IDS, antivirus. DLP ...etc.

 

i hope this help

 

Thanks

YI 

 

 

Hisham Barhoum
by Hisham Barhoum , CIO Chief Information Officer , Avalon Pharma

 

Hardware Firewall is better where it is difficult to attack it,

 

Usman Habib
by Usman Habib , Senior IT Infrastructure/Security Engineer , Globe Marine

HW firewall is always better due to its dedicated inspection engine for analyzing the traffic futher it works upto layer 7 and can also perform IPS fucntion in the same box, currently Cisco is offering ASA with firepower module that can be considered for edge security

Javed Shaik
by Javed Shaik , Technical Consultant , Cisco Systems - India

Hardware firewall is preferable over software, as it offers one extra layer of protection to itself, i.e. reaching the firewall physically in a enclosure in some cases is required to tamper with security, hardware firewalls will give another step of security in this manner.

SHEIK MOHAMED
by SHEIK MOHAMED , Sr. Technical Engineer , Aptusinfotech

Hareware firewall, its very easy to do the deployment just configuring the LAN and WAN settings. All the UTM is desinged as per ites won specification, according to that we choose the right model.

interface based policy ( zone level) is very convinient.

George Dimitrov
by George Dimitrov , Technical support , Sutherland Global Services

Hardware Firewalls as they are more reliable

Mohamed Mafaaz Mohamed Abdul Salam
by Mohamed Mafaaz Mohamed Abdul Salam , IBM System Engineer , IBM

Hardware Firewalls are better because those are dedicated to ensure the security of the network.

Hardware  Firewall ,Because easy to configure & maintain & troubleshoot .

Hussain Dhanpurwala
by Hussain Dhanpurwala , Assistant IT Manager , Creativity General trading

hardware firewall is the best 

Sushil Kumar Sushil
by Sushil Kumar Sushil , IT Manager , Diligent Solution Pvt Ltd

Harware Firewall is more sucure than software.

Haroon Haroon Afzal
by Haroon Haroon Afzal , Consultant

A  hardWare Firewll is  always better   its  called  UTM  If you  know   Microsoft    TMG  but  Microsoft   finish his support . definitely  hardware  friewall  give  your Network more secure and protected.

Thanks . 

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