Or, a manager evaluating the plethora of expensive
VPN solutions may become an ISA technology champion after he or she finds
the low-cost and highly functional ISA VPN solutions tempting. The more support
ISA can get, the easier it is to manage the project to completion.
. Convincing the skeptics??”The reality today is that there is a great deal of skepticism
regarding Microsoft security technologies. This skepticism is partly based on the
bad experiences many security admins have had in the past with exploits and security
holes in Microsoft products. This makes a product such as ISA Server a tougher
sell to this audience. In this scenario, ISA is often best sold as an additional layer to
existing security technologies, rather than as a replacement for them. In addition, as
with any technology, if the impression is that a fundamental redesign of existing
network or security architecture is necessary to deploy ISA, it will have a more difficult
time gaining approval.
. Controlling the costs??”Although a full ISA Server 2006 deployment with multiple
arrays of ISA Enterprise Edition servers running on robust multi-processor systems
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can end up being quite expensive, most ISA deployments are actually quite low cost,
particularly when they are compared to similar solutions.
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