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E-Poll Results: Personal Firewalls

  November 12, 2001
 


In an informal Network Computing survey, 5,000 readers were asked to respond to a number of questions about personal firewalls. Of those surveyed, 8 percent responded.

If you have comments or questions about our e-poll, please send an e-mail to webmaster@nwc.com.



  1. How do you feel about your company's overall security?

  2. Where does your company intend to spend the most money on security over the next 12 months?

  3. Where has your company placed the majority of its enterprise (not personal) firewalls?

  4. Moving forward, where will the majority of your company's new enterprise firewalls be placed?

  5. Does your company need firewalls that support gigabit or near-gigabit speeds?

  6. If your company does not need firewalls that support gigabit or near-gigabit speeds, when do you think it will have this need?

  7. What percentage of your company's firewalls are running in a high-availability/failover configuration?

  8. What are the top decision points used in purchasing an enterprise firewall solution?

  9. When does your company plan to roll out a personal firewall solution to remote users?

  10. If your company does not have a personal firewall on its remote desktop machines, why not?

  11. Where is your company using desktop personal firewalls?

  12. Which do you consider the most important factor when purchasing a personal firewall solution?

  13. Do your company's remote offices have firewalls installed?

  14. If your company doesn't outsource remote- office firewalls, why not?




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