Recommended firewall appliance for small business

GoneShootin

Someone asked me recently what they should get in terms of a router that would give them:

> 5+ VPN simultaneous connections
> URL / content filtering[i.e. facebook, youtube etc]
> wireless [nice to have but not a requirement]
> adsl modem [nice to have but not a requirement]

What are small companies (less than 15 users) using these days?

FusionNet

Hi shootin,

These are what we install on client sites. Very easy to use and good quality security...


ROUTER/VPN/
http://www.netgear.com/Products/VPNandSSL/WirelessVPNFirewallRouters/DGFV338.aspx

CONTENT FILTERING/VPN

http://prosecure.netgear.com/products/prosecure-utm-series.php

Now you could use a basic wireless router with the UTM or if budgets allow maybe both. Ill ask our security guy what would be a good option if you like???

GoneShootin

FusionNet wrote: »

Hi shootin,
Now you could use a basic wireless router with the UTM or if budgets allow maybe both. Ill ask our security guy what would be a good option if you like???

That would be ideal as they already have the bog standard eircom router, which does a pretty decent job in pumping the WPA wireless into the parts of the building that needs it. So something after that which does the VPN/AntiVir/VoIP, like the UTM you linked to, would be the neatest job.

Thanks - and yeah ask your security guy!

4Sheets

Not an expert on Firewalls and never used this before but it is open source and feature rich..install on old pc..
http://www.smoothwall.org/

roryq

IPCOP is a good one to use. Opensource all you need is an old pc with two nics.

http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/ipcop/wiki