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Today's Topics:

1. Re: Anyone have any informed opinions on the
watchguardproduct line? (Scott Pinzon)
2. Re: Anyone have any informed opinions on the
watchguardproduct line? (Paul D. Robertson)

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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:17:45 -0800
From: "Scott Pinzon" <Scott.Pinzon@watchguard.com>
Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] Anyone have any informed opinions on the
watchguardproduct line?
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Depending on which WatchGuard product you're considering, you might be
able to catch a glimpse of how the UI works by searching for our videos
on YouTube and Google Video. A couple of our Firebox X Edge videos have
made it out there, each under 10 minutes long:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbnTkqdpi1E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsyoDpsXzDQ

You can find more under "related videos." These might not answer your
specific questions, but will give you an idea of what it's like to use
the product.

You can also hear our answers to user questions about usage in some
episodes of our podcast, Radio Free Security, available on iTunes and at
www.getmon.com.

I'm hoping these materials will take you a little farther than the
normal vendor buzzword stuff.

D. Scott Pinzon, CISSP, NSA-IAM
Editor-in-Chief, LiveSecurity Service
WatchGuard Technologies, Inc.

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Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 12:48 PM
To: firewall-wizards@listserv.icsalabs.com
Subject: [fw-wiz] Anyone have any informed opinions on the
watchguardproduct line?

Hi all! A friend of mine asked if I would recommend the Watchguard
products for their small business.

I checked the product literature
(http://www.watchguard.com/products/x550e.asp) and found what I consider

to be dubious claims ("True zero day protection"? Really?) but that's
pretty standard for security vendors' marketdroids.

Does anyone have an informed opinion on whether these products are any
good, that I can pass along to my friend?
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 18:01:10 -0500 (EST)
From: "Paul D. Robertson" <paul@compuwar.net>
Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] Anyone have any informed opinions on the
watchguardproduct line?
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On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, Scott Pinzon wrote:

> Depending on which WatchGuard product you're considering, you might be
> able to catch a glimpse of how the UI works by searching for our videos
> on YouTube and Google Video. A couple of our Firebox X Edge videos have

Personally, I'm finding the Windows-only GUI more and more of a problem.
Suddenly, if I want to make rule changes, I've got to boot up Parallels
and XP- normally that takes getting out an external drive and closing
other apps I'm working on to free up enough memory on my MacBook. Is
there any chance we'll see either a cross-plaform, command-line or
Web-based GUI any time soon?

Thanks,

Paul
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