Problem
A. How might different firewalls be employed to maximize an organizations overall security posture? Might this posture change over time? If so how? If not, why not?
B. Should all firewalls within an organization be the same make or model? Why? Or why not? Justify your answer.
C. Firewalls often are used as a perimeter trip mechanism, how can an admin stay up to date with the information being feed from the firewalls? What are the overall dangers of not monitoring your firewall feeds?
D. How should firewalls be monitored with logging solutions? How can they be monitored without logging solutions? What is the importance of integrating the firewall(s) into the logging solution? What about incompatibilities, how should they be handled?