The company that I work for has just been divided in two. One division will sold, and the other will be moving to a new location. I will moving with it and I am involved in building the new network with other admins from the corporate headquarters.
I have just received the list of devices that they want to buy and for the firewall they want a Cisco Pix 515E. I want to know the pros and cons of the Pix compared to other firewall (specifically Application layer firewall) like the Secure Computing Sidewinder.
I know the Pix is much cheaper, but I also think that the Pix is much less secure since it is a network layer firewall.
And if I should get an application layer firewall, how should try to convince them. I think it will be difficult because they already use a Pix at their location
What do you think.
Thank you
