Security Management Strategies for the CIO
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centralized policy-setting for Windows desktops. Weak reporting and lack of centralized logging support keep it from moving up to enterprise-caliber.
The intuitive interface and step-by-step documentation made both Policy Server and local configurations a breeze. Our XP Professional client installations (Win-dows 2000 Professional is also supported) took about five minutes each.
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Policies can be set by user groups and are made simpler through integration with Active Directory. Security managers can set firewall rule sets for different environments; the Policy Server profiles prevented any changes from being made from the workstations.
While Desktop Firewall offers some very nice graphs and charts showing traffic patterns and actions taken, there's no way to generate management-caliber reports from the Policy Server. We could locally log packets with all header information and TCP flags included, but the lack of syslog support will deter adoption by larger organizations.
-GREG BALAZE
This was first published in May 2005
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