[Discuss] Separate commercial firewall?

[jay at lentecs.com (Jason Normand)]

With out knowing more about what they have setup or the company, is it
possible its for vpn or external accessibility?  I could see requiring more
advanced firewall capability for a high end security system or a streaming
media system.  Another thing I considered when doing home and small office
IT was providing a vpn option for troubleshooting, to avoid extra house
calls.  Even if your parents do not use it it could just be part of the
standard package.

from a strictly security perspective you could argue either way, given that
your parents do not know how the hardware is used, unless it is maintained
by the company.

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 12:52 PM, John Hall <johnhall2.0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> In what cases is an integrated firewall in a good home router insufficient?
> If it's not necessary could this unit actually compromise security?
>
> When I was visiting my folks for the holidays I noticed that their media
> equipment company installed a separate hardware firewall between the cable
> modem and wifi router.  i don't remember the make but I recognized it as
> high end. It's not a standard consumer brand and was about the same size as
> their wifi equipment. They really don't know it's there let alone use any
> active features like detailed logging.
> Being very generous the network is used at peak by 8 people.
>
> At first I figured that it probably was a way to just charge more money but
> have started to think...maybe their are vulnerabilities I don't know about.
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