FW/IPSec VPN Buyer’s Guide

4. Ease of Use

Multiple ways to interact with

 

 

 

the system:

 

 

 

o

CLI

Yes

 

 

o

Web UI

Yes

 

 

o

Central Management

Yes

 

 

 

Platform

 

 

 

Remote management options:

 

 

 

o

SSH

Yes

 

 

o

Telnet

Yes

 

 

o

Web (HTTP/HTTPs)

Yes

 

 

o

Centralized

Yes

 

 

o

Management GUI

 

 

 

Syslog

Yes

 

 

o

SNMP

Yes

 

 

o

Ping for remote

Yes

 

 

 

monitoring

 

 

 

Ability to manage the device,

 

 

 

network and security

Yes, Juniper

 

 

functionality from a single

Networks NetScreen-

 

 

console

 

Security Manager

 

 

Ability to view all logs in central

 

 

 

location

 

Yes

 

 

Ability to assign different

 

 

 

people in the organization

Yes, role-based

 

 

different read/write privileges

administration

 

 

Policy changes can be

Yes, Juniper

 

 

distributed quickly to one or

Networks NetScreen-

 

 

many devices

Security Manager

 

 

Firewall policies can be easily

 

 

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applied to VPN traffic, without

Yes, using Security

 

White Paper “Dynamic VPNs

having to define the network

Zones

 

Achieving Scalable, Secure

(IP-based) within that policy

 

 

Site-to-Site Connectivity”

Policies can be easily applied

Yes, using Security

 

 

to new networks/interfaces

Zones

 

 

Offers VLAN support to

 

 

 

integrate subnets easily

Yes

 

 

Different network segments

 

 

 

can have different policy sets,

Yes, using Security

 

 

effectively segmenting the

Zones

 

 

network

 

 

 

 

Administrators can apply

 

 

 

universal rules to multiple

Yes, unique to

 

 

security zones

NetScreen

 

 

Different network segments,

 

 

 

departments, offices, etc. can

Yes, Virtual Systems

 

 

manage their own security,

 

 

 

completely separate from each

 

 

 

other:

 

 

 

 

o

Separate management

Yes

 

 

o

devices

 

 

 

Separate “view”

Yes

 

 

Built in troubleshooting

 

 

 

features:

 

 

 

o

Contextual information

Yes

 

 

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