We are in the final stages of selecting a firewall for our company. We are going to go with Firewall-1. We’ve asked for a quote for the initial install and set-up, which has come back at $9,500.00 (with VPN.) We currently do not need the VPN, buthave purchased it for future use. Our set-up is basically 1 router, 1 T-1 line, 1 Web server, 1 Exchange Server and internal LAN. It seems fairly straight forward to set up the firewall. Are there any tricks I should know about, must be something for $6,500.00 (without VPN.)
Also, we are going to use Norton for Firewalls (AntiVirus), we currently do not have the budget for a separate AV server. Are there any problems with putting Norton on the Firewall server? (Other than downtime if Norton needs to be rebooted.)