Re: Using linux firewalls for PCI compliant infrastructure

Kurt Buff <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.firewalls.wizards
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 14:37, Siim Põder <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> We are using linux-based servers as firewalls for PCI compliant
> infrastructure. During audits it has been OK so far but security
> people internally have suggested that maybe a commercial product would
> be better suited for PCI infrastructure (as it is pretty critical).
>
> I'm personally very happy with the iptables firewalls - we can use all
> the standard components for firewalls that we use for everything else
> (including standard administration methods, patching and so forth).
>
> What do you think, would a commercial firewall provide a tangible
> improvement in security?
> Is anyone else using linux-based firewalls for PCI (or otherwise
> sensitive) infrastructure?
>
> Thanks,
> Siim

Following on from a couple of other posts, you could potentially use
fwbuilder (http://www.fwbuilder.org/) as a front end, and argue that
the results are equivalent to some number of commercial offerings, for
which fwbuilder makes equivalent configurations.

Kurt
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