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Almost 2 years ago
Answered a question: Which product do you prefer: Sophos XGS 2100 or Fortinet FortiGate 100F?
Hi Rahul
I'm an IT consultant, specializing in networking and firewalls. Actually, I'm implementing Fortigates 100F and Sophos XGS2100 in customers' infrastructures.
They are two big advantages for Sophos XGS:
1) The second CPU XStream, dedicated to firewalling and UTM…
Over 2 years ago
Answered a question: How do you calculate the size of a firewall for your network?
Hi Niranjan
In my case, I use this simple template:
Throughput:
- Total WAN Bandwidth (Mbps)
- Average WAN Consumption (Mbps)
- Anticipated WAN growth over 3 years (%)
- Anticipated Peak Growth
- Anticipated Average Growth
WAN Protection:
- SSL/TLS Decryption (Yes/No)
-…
About 3 years ago
Commented on Easy to use, scalable, and provides good security
Well done! Happy to see it was easy.
Next step is Synchronize Security with Sophos Endpoint (formely Sophos Central), to block "lateral movement"!
https://www.sophos.com/en-us/l...
https://techvids.sophos.com/wa...
Regards,
Over 3 years ago
Answered a question: Which lesser known firewall product has the best chance at unseating the market leaders?
Hi
In my opinion, Sophos firewall XGS will gain power in the market, not for its internal's functions and services, but with the "Sophos Synchronized Security", interconnecting firewalls, endpoints, mobiles, etc., centralized in a cloud console.
This system can interact…
Over 3 years ago
Answered a question: What Is The Biggest Difference Between Sophos UTM and Sophos XG?
Hi
The new appliances XGS have a dedicated streaming CPU (Xstream), in addition to the main CPU.
I have personally tested the differences between the XG and XGS similar appliances. The result is spectacular. 30% more perf minimum:
https://www.sophos.com/en-us/p...
The UTM-9…
Almost 4 years ago
Contributed a review of Sophos XG: A powerful and cost-effective web application firewall solution
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Over 3 years ago
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Over 3 years ago
Unified Threat Management (UTM)