Is it secure to put edge firewall on Windows box?

re: Is it secure to put edge firewall on Windows box?

Alessandro — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:43 GMT

we are a not as little organization and have been using ISA 2004 as an edge firewall for internet connection and "little web publishing" (i.e. outlook web access and so on).

So later we decided to trust in isa (2006) as the only firewall protecting our new public access sites (12 millions of page views per month). It is working good, we just had 2 iussues:

1) the "referring server" in logs made service crash

2) the http compression bug forced us not to allow compression

we are still at SP1 for windows 2003

re: Is it secure to put edge firewall on Windows box?

isablog — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 23:15:14 GMT

Allesandro, I would like to followup on the issues you mention. Could you please contact me via jney@microsoft.com?

re: Is it secure to put edge firewall on Windows box?

Tom Shinder — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:25:48 GMT

Hi John,

The issues that Alessandro has had are well known ISA Firewall issues.

Thanks!

Tom

re: Is it secure to put edge firewall on Windows box?

HD Video Converter — Tue, 26 May 2009 10:56:58 GMT

Windows computer is a good idea.