I need a hardware firewall that meets these specs:
simple setup
not too expensive (small business)
allow for an allow list of URLs that employees can access...this list
would be ~ 25 or less URLs
allow for some workstations to have full access and bypass these
filters.
I would appreciate any suggestions to this.

Thanks in advance!

On May 25, 12:22 pm, jawdoc <drbro... [at] msoms.com> wrote:
> I need a hardware firewall that meets these specs:
> simple setup
> not too expensive (small business)
> allow for an allow list of URLs that employees can access...this list
> would be ~ 25 or less URLs
> allow for some workstations to have full access and bypass these
> filters.
> I would appreciate any suggestions to this.
>
> Thanks in advance!

if you only need simple requirements like this then an integrated
router/firewall would be best, what type of router do you currently
have or what one does your isp provide you it will probably have a
built-in firewall allowing you to do this.

Probably a linksys would be the best they are reliable and have a web
gui for configuring.

Flamer.

You may wish to investigate the Cisco Product Advisor:

http://tools.cisco.com/GCT/PCTPST/index.jsp

and Cisco Small Business Network Designer:

http://64.224.10.185/sbnd/child/1.0/index.asp

as well as the Cisco Solution Designer:

http://www.ciscowebtools.com/sa2/child/1.0/index.asp

and Cisco Secure Business Advisor:

http://www.securebusinessadvisor.com

Sincerely,

Brad Reese on Cisco
Network World Magazine Cisco Subnet
http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/cisco/

On May 25, 3:22 am, jawdoc <drbro... [at] msoms.com> wrote:
> I need a hardware firewall that meets these specs:
> simple setup
> not too expensive (small business)
> allow for an allow list of URLs that employees can access...this list
> would be ~ 25 or less URLs
> allow for some workstations to have full access and bypass these
> filters.
> I would appreciate any suggestions to this.
>
> Thanks in advance!

Hi,

For less than 10 user go for ZyXEL ZyWALL 2 plus it will meet your
needs.
For less than 25 users go for ZyXEL ZyWALL 5 UTM where you can buy it
with full UTM (Anti-virus, Anti-spam and content filtering) services
if you like and have peace of mind, it's very stable products and come
with VPN support also.


Panda,
http://www.networkingland.com/utm_vendors.htm