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Adding an Additional Firewall to a LAN: Physical or Logical?

Although I recently passed my CT30 certification, I am new to network administration so please forgive any incorrect assumptions in what follows.

I often hear people discuss the need to isolate dedicated network segments with an additional firewalls when adding high vulnerability services--services that VLAN segmentation alone is not a viable security solution. 

In the case that one needs to create such a segment on one's network, protected by an additional firewall, does physical hardware need to be purchased to make this happen (an additional UTM or XG box for example)? Or can existing network hardware be configured to create a new (logical) segment that is protected by a "second" firewall? 

That is a long question. Please let me know how I can better clarify if what I am asking does not make sense.

Thank you for your thoughts



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  • What would an additional firewall gain you beyond just creating a separate Ethernet segment on a different UTM interface?

    Cheers - Bob

     
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  • What would an additional firewall gain you beyond just creating a separate Ethernet segment on a different UTM interface?

    Cheers - Bob

     
    Sophos UTM Community Moderator
    Sophos Certified Architect - UTM
    Sophos Certified Engineer - XG
    Gold Solution Partner since 2005
    MediaSoft, Inc. USA
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