Firewall Deep Inspection Updates and Antivirus Subscription, worth it?
- by msemack
I realize that this is a subjective question, but I'm trying to get some experiences
We have Juniper firewalls in our organization (SSG-320M, SSG-5, and some old NS-5GT). We have the option of a yearly subscription for:
Deep Inspection Signature Updates
Juniper-Kaspersky Antivirus
I seem similar services available from other Firewall vendors.
We have Symantec Endpoint Protection deployed to all workstations and servers, plus a dedicated appliance for e-mail spam/virus filtering. So, I'm not sure what these firewall-base services will bring to the table that I don't already have.
I would appreciate some feedback from people using these firewall services (Juniper or otherwise).
Are these services generally worth it? Do they really catch anything? Do they interfere with normal traffic (false positives)?