So Long, Cisco PIX

Today is the last day that you can purchase a Cisco PIX as it is now considered End of Life.

When I worked at my last DoD gig, I was thrown into a position where I had to administer about 250 Cisco PIXes. At the time I had zero experience, but I knew how to configure firewalls after years of experience playing with Checkpoints. Google and Cisco.Com became my best friends and luckily, I never shot myself in the foot too badly.

Stiennon has a pretty good piece on this as well as links to the history of Cisco PIX, including this article written in 1995.