The Problems of A Company of a Certain Size...

[deanwebb]

Small: The network guy *is* the firewall guy. Hope he knows how to run the thing.

Medium: There is a trained, talented firewall guy that works there for 6 months before he's snapping up a better gig somewhere else. Then the new guy has to do the firewall.

Large: Firewall guy? Do you mean the segmentation firewall guy, the DMZ firewall guy, the cloud services firewall guy, the datacenter firewall guy, the firewall management guy, or the SOC? Yes, I'm in network security, but I'm the NAC guy, I don't work with the firewalls...

[deanwebb]

Reviving the thread...

We need our network monitoring system set up to do email.

Small: Can it work with a gmail account? That's all we got.

Medium: We've got hosted Exchange. It needs to supply a username and password to get in. It can't? Oh, man... well, can it use gmail?

Large: We've got local hosting of Exchange, we're good there. Did you fill out the IT-29B form for email access and have your manager and his manager approve it? They're out of town for three weeks? Well, how about using gmail in the interim?