On 01/13/2011 10:17 PM, Matt Lawrence wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Brodie, Kent wrote: > >> Not sure "which kind" of email appliances to which you're shopping for, >> but.. in terms of spam filtering, we really like the Barracuda line >> of products. Linux-based. They do the job, well. > > Something to sit between isolated production networks and the corporate > Exchange servers. Part of the security architecture is to keep production > networks isolated. And instead of a general purpose unix system bridging > this, they want a single purpose, dedicated email appliance. It makes > security audits simpler. It's also a fairly low volume sort of > application.
I may be in a vanishing category, but above and beyond network gear, I hate appliances. There is almost always going to be a case where you need it to do X in order to work within your environment, and the appliance doesn't support X. So, you will be left with doing Y, Z and A with the appliance, in order to emulate being able to do X. Most times, it will be a "problem" trivially solved if you had shell on the toaster or an open solution instead. In your case, where making security audits more simple is a design goal, is it worth it to spend more on an appliance to do this, or is it more cost effective over the long term to just drop in a unix box? -- -- John E. Jasen (jja...@realityfailure.org) -- "Deserve Victory." -- Terry Goodkind, Naked Empire _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
