#2 AXENT Technologies Raptor Firewall

AXENT’s flamboyant firewall, ‘the Raptor’ is one of the most powerful firewalls among the enterprise arena. The firewall contains a huge set of proxies that are successfully well tested and implemented. The interface is also easy to use and slick. The product is also the only firewall to offer protection for NT servers running Microsoft networking. Other features include control read, write and update commands as well as limit SMB (Server Message Block) behavior to valid operations. The product recognizes only valid HTTP commands and drops packets with characters that can be used for escape code attacks.

#1 Check Point Software technologies FireWall-1

The Firewall 1 from Check Point Software technologies is considered to be the best firewall till date for enterprises. Organizations have credited the product as a deadly combination of access control, great performance and straightforward product management. The product offers NAT and also provides offers user authentication and defends against SYN and packet-fragmentation attacks. For SMTP, commands can be limited and arranged so as to drop any mail beyond a certain size. Emails also can be scanned for viruses, and information in the mail header revealing details about the internal network can be stripped before the mail leaves the internal network.

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