Thursday, January 9, 2020

Firewalls, what to choose when budgets are tight?

to follow up on my last thread of "I can't afford 9 firewalls, only 2 because budgets and I'd really-really like to replace all 9 at the same time..."

what is decent gear that's out there? I based my initial project on Fortigates, but it's simply unaffordable after budget-cuts. I currently have very very old ASA's 5510 and 5505.

Most of my facilities have standard "business" cable internet, 75down/5up or something like that so almost any device will handle that, 2 of my locations have 200/20 service and may grow/have more, I'd like to future-proof those two devices with something stout (I know those are nothing in today's world, but the 5505 in that one location is struggling to not be a bottleneck there).

Feature-wise I need almost nothing, #1 need is site to site VPN, #2 would be a nice end-user VPN client for remote users, other than that I don't really need much other than stability/reliability. I would like to maybe one day buy into some IPS/IDS/Malware protection but it's not critical and it always costs a subscription fee so it wouldn't be part of the year 1 anyway.

sophos? ubiquity?

EDIT: What about barracuda firewalls? I just (literally) learned they make some, lol, I had no clue..



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