personal firewalls or intrustion detection

I have 2 servers outside the firewall. They will be coming into a DMZ
shortly but in the meantime I need some sort of protection on them. One is
W2K advanced server with IIS only and the other is W2K server with IIS and
FTP. can (will) anyone make any recomendations toward securing these
servers and what type of firewall/intrusion detection system works well. I
would appreciate knowing which ones don't work so well too.

Thanks
Byron

Sparky
Thu Mar 31 11:38:08 CST 2005


"Byron Kendrick" <bkendrick@austincollege.edu> wrote in message
news:eCjwANgNFHA.3560@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>I have 2 servers outside the firewall. They will be coming into a DMZ
>shortly but in the meantime I need some sort of protection on them. One is
>W2K advanced server with IIS only and the other is W2K server with IIS and
>FTP. can (will) anyone make any recomendations toward securing these
>servers and what type of firewall/intrusion detection system works well. I
>would appreciate knowing which ones don't work so well too.
>
> Thanks
> Byron
>

Check out Smoothwall Express

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I set one up a couple weeks ago with a previously scrapped PC. (Thus making
the entire thing free)