rob998 Posted February 9, 2015 Posted February 9, 2015 Hello, Can anyone recommend a firewall or let me know which you are using? I am looking to install a firewall to enable us to host our own website and provide remote access for staff. Essentially fencing off the internal network creating a DMZ for the web server, remote access servers etc. I would also need someone of sign off the config when it is setup to satisfy the ISP/LA. I've got a budget of around £2,500 Thanks in advance! Rob
Dos_Box Posted February 9, 2015 Posted February 9, 2015 Moving to Internet Related/Filtering/Firewall.
robjduk Posted February 9, 2015 Posted February 9, 2015 I went with Kemp in the end but may be a little to high however Dell Sonic wall came in at around the price you have. 1
rob998 Posted February 9, 2015 Author Posted February 9, 2015 Anyone using Cisco ASA 5515-X Firewall?
bodminman Posted February 9, 2015 Posted February 9, 2015 We use a Sonicwall NSA240 here and it's been superb and the service has too!
njc235 Posted February 10, 2015 Posted February 10, 2015 Have you looked at Cyberoam. Now owned by Sophos and very competitively priced. 1
SchoolsBroadband Posted February 10, 2015 Posted February 10, 2015 If you're a secondary school a Fortigate 100D will do the trick. I've got quite a few refurb ones in stock you can have for a lot less than £2,500 as we've been moving people from onsite boxes to our virtualised cloud infrastructure. Send me a PM and I'll give you a bargain of a price Thanks Dave 1
JKerr Posted February 10, 2015 Posted February 10, 2015 I second what njc stated. Try looking at cyberoam, has some added filtering functionalities as well. Firewalls | Hardware Firewall Appliance | Virtual Firewall Appliance – Cyberoam Cyberoam Product Range – Cyberoam 1
rob998 Posted February 10, 2015 Author Posted February 10, 2015 Thanks guys - these have give me some to look at. Easter is hopefully when I will get round to installing / go live.
tom_newton Posted February 10, 2015 Posted February 10, 2015 Since there's already at least one vendor here.. I'll chip in - a Smoothwall firewall can do all of that (as can the other suggestions), but also leaves your options open for filtering later on. Drop me a line with any questions.
EXA_Mark Posted February 10, 2015 Posted February 10, 2015 Either Stormshield (Use to be Known as NETASQ) or Fortinet. We have hundreds of these in secondary schools throughout the UK and both are great. If you do decide that either of these suit you we can provide them at a VERY (read zero margin to us) price. Just PM me if you'd like more information.
psydii Posted February 10, 2015 Posted February 10, 2015 Slightly adjunct to the question but... how are the SophosUTM and Cyberroam products differentiated? Incidentally we use pfsense, elsewhere I've replaced TMG with Smoothwall, and I have THREE Cisco 5515's sitting idle because I can't afford to pay anyone to set them up and support them (bought and mis-managed before my time here)
cpjitservices Posted February 10, 2015 Posted February 10, 2015 pFsense. Free https://www.pfsense.org/ 1
Sephiroth Posted February 11, 2015 Posted February 11, 2015 pFsense. Free https://www.pfsense.org/ I second this. I have it running as a VM with a dedicated WAN NIC, and it performs beautifully.
cpjitservices Posted February 11, 2015 Posted February 11, 2015 We have it running on some watchguards, and a few old servers.
Blue_Cookeh Posted February 12, 2015 Posted February 12, 2015 I'm very fond of our Sophos UTM... VERY powerful and not nearly as pricey as some of its competitors.
john Posted February 13, 2015 Posted February 13, 2015 We use Cisco Hardware firewalls globally and they are great, Sonicwall are just well renamed SonicFail, they are not good bits of kit at all, our experience of them is they all fail and suck to the point of will not ever touch them.
Geoff Posted February 13, 2015 Posted February 13, 2015 pFsense. Free https://www.pfsense.org/ Yep, got one here. It's doing Wifi Captive portal at the moment. Might get press ganged into being a load balancer / reverse proxy for OWA too. It's running on an old Citrix CAG appliance.
Jehanzeb Posted February 13, 2015 Posted February 13, 2015 I am looking at Juniper SRX240 but someone mentioned to look at Lightspeed as it has option for MDM and Web filter all in one and or Smoothwall. One thing that I don't want is ongoing subscription and tie ourselves up with ever so increasing subscription prices. The search still goes on..... Regards Jay
cpjitservices Posted February 13, 2015 Posted February 13, 2015 SRX's are excellent bits of kit - I have deployed those before. Very easy to manage and very nice to use and well built. The Juniper stuff is subscription based but, I dont think it increases.
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