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Article #32Re: HIPAA and firewalls
From: John R Pierce
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 04:47
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 04:47
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On Mon, 10 May 2004 00:14:51 -0400, "Mike Harrison" <mharrison@aol.com> wrote: > >> >> 2. Why do the little boxes cost so darn much? They cost way more than >> the computers you are trying to protect. I guess the data is >> invaluable, but still... > > >How expensive??? 400 bucks gets you a pix 501 which is fine for a 768K >circuit and can handle about 3mbit of encrypted traffic or $500 for a Netscreen 5GT at the main office, which handles upwards of 20Mbit/sec of 3DES VPN, and 10 simultaneous VPN connections, then $400 or so each for NetScreen "Hardware Security Clients" at each branch office. Properly configured by someone who knows what they are doing, this would make the LANs at each location fully connected into a wide area network (WAN). If you have more than 10 branch offices, you need the next model up for the central office. you don't need to mess with all that external authentication server stuff if you only have a few offices, a few netscreens and no more than maybe 100 remote users who use software VPN occasionally, the 5GT can manage themselves via a web-based admin interface. Naturally, you can make this as fancy and complicated as you want.
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