@Diyaspino,​ all three are overpriced.  Depending on what are you looking for, you may look at Fortinet or even check the latest Sophos offering.  There is a number of different postings on SD-WAN in the last few years. Once people learned that SD-WAN is an old VPN with a…

How do I convince a client that the most expensive firewall is not necessarily the best? --> don't waste your time.  In the client's eyes, you are not a trusted advisor. If you can manage both, just let them take the risk.

Hi This really gets to two things: - how fast your internet access is and how much are you planning to grow in the next few years?  - are you planning to do the TLS inspection? Do proper sizing with partners. Pay attention to XGS2100 which is a new platform by Sophos.…

Hi what do you expect from AI (Artificial Intelligence) to do :-)? In IT there are many 2 o 3 letter "words" and they are often referring to something already probably deployed somewhere in some form.  As far as AI, most of the vendors are driving to same direction. To make…

This depends on many factors like size of organization, how organization is geo-spread, type of NGFW and Proxy you are looking at or you have. And where proxy is deployed, onprem or cloud? With cloud you have additional options and companies like Zscaler and Netskope started…

Netscope, Zscaler if they continue route they are on now. FIrewalls needs great deal of automation on each end, datacenter and endpoint. In between you have branch office. So blending EPP and firewall on enduser machine + blending branch office with datacenter firewall will…

What is the biggest difference between Sophos UTM and Sophos XG? UTM will die and XG will live. Which of these two solutions would you recommend to a colleague evaluating firewalls and why? XG. SG is obsolete solution. No more development as it is on XG.