Firewalls

central administration, one employee can manage more than 400

firewalls.

17.8 Summary

Although many Internet security and firewall tunneling solutions

can be found on today’s market, most of them are point security

products dedicated to tactical access point protection, but are diffi-

cult to manage in large numbers and hard to truly integrate within

an enterprise-wide Internet security policy. Good Internet security

and firewall tunneling solutions must respect at least four major

rules, as follows:

■ A high level of trust

■ Centralized security management

■ Enterprise-class scalability

■ High-end protection

17.8.2 A high level of trust

The firewall tunneling ...