[unisog] Managed host based firewalls

[Alexander Clouter]

Clark Gaylord <cgaylord at vt.edu> wrote:
>
> What's wrong with Windows Firewall? It works better than most, stays 
> out of the way, no installation to manage, easily managed via GPO -- I 
> don't get it. Granted it isn't ipfilter or even iptables, but nothing 
> is on Windows and GPO is sweet and easy.
>
I think one of the key things was the centralised *logging* part.  
Although I am fortunate enough to have nothing to do with the Windows 
world, as far as I was aware the Event logger rarely contains anything 
particularly useful/usable and getting it exported to a central system 
involves usually some kind of syslog converter do-fango.

Cheers

-- 
Alexander Clouter
.sigmonster says: Blow it out your ear.