Engineering Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 I'm thinking a Linksys or a Cisco branch...Which model is the absolutely least likely to be compromised by WAN attacks, exploits, vulnerabilities, and such?What do you know? What have you heard? Any experiences, comments, thoughts or concerns? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoffeeFiend Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 There is no answer to this. Any firewall or similar device is only as secure as its configuration. You can have a million dollar firewall badly configured and thus being less secure than a $5 after mail-in-rebates junker.I'm not sure what's with your obsession about everything being the "utmost absolute most secure ever" (thinking about your crippling securing XP post too). If you want something so ridiculously hack-proof, then unplug the network and turn it off basically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Engineering Posted August 15, 2009 Author Share Posted August 15, 2009 All I'm looking is for a broad range of opinions that's all... Research but Thank you for the insight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoffeeFiend Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 All I'm looking is for a broad range of opinions that's allWell, that's akin to asking what's the best color for a car pretty much. There is no actual answer. And there are FAR too many factors, even if you disregarded configuration whatsoever (which would be totally stupid), like which device, which version of the said device (sometimes it bears the same name, but that's where the similarity ends), which version of the firmware it shipped with (which can change quite a bit from a version to another) and so on. You really think the input of random folks on the internet, who for the most part have little to no knowledge of networking fundamentals like TCP/IP (much less firewalls and such complex topics) is relevant? They'll just say whichever name they know or have heard of. *Nobody* can tell you across dozens of manufacturers, thousands of devices, each with several different hardware revisions *and* different firmware versions (based on a lot of different software which is at different versions and sometimes forked), different default configs and so on, which ones are the most secure in every possible way. This is at best an exercise in futility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcarle Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 I agreed with CoffeeFiend. If you want secure "anything", forget about being online. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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