Strengthen my case for smoothwall

[ozydave]

I know it's a needed to strengthen our safeguarding policy.

But getting it across to SLT is a different matter.

 

Any offers ?

Cheers in advance

[FN-GM]

What do you have now? And why do you want it?

 

I do think its one of the only filters that comply with prevent though.

[localzuk]

What do you have now? And why do you want it?

I do think its one of the only filters that comply with prevent though.

 

There are plenty of filters that comply with Prevent. Filtering Provider Responses | Safer Internet Centre

[FN-GM]

There are plenty of filters that comply with Prevent. Filtering Provider Responses | Safer Internet Centre

 

I didn't say the only.... Compared the amount of products on the market that isn't very many.

[strawberry]

What do you have in place at the moment?

[Blue_Cookeh]

I'd like to know why you're after Smoothwall too?

 

Out of all the testing I did for on-site filtering Sophos (UTM not XG) came out as suiting our environment the best, it came out cheaper, had more features, and was compliant with prevent.

Edited November 15, 2016 by Blue_Cookeh

[localzuk]

I'd like to know why you're after Smoothwall too?

Out of all the testing I did for on-site filtering Sophos (UTM not XG) came out as suiting our environment the best, it came out cheaper, had more features, and was compliant with prevent.

Indeed. That's the same for us also. We bought 5 Sophos UTM boxes for our trust.

[Gibbo]

I found Sophos UTM absolutely terrible. Box had to keep being restarted until it was finally resolved by a firmware update.

 

Smoothwall just works, and the user interface is far better than Sophos in my opinion.

[rrrrr]

I went from smoothwall to sophos. Smoothwalls support was poor and the product felt buggy with a counterintuitive user interface.

 

I was very happy with the sophos solution. Felt a more polished product with better support.

[Edu-IT]

Does Sophos do the dynamic page filtering etc?

[Garacesh]

Realistically if you're going from [Nothing] to [something] I'd advise you go down the UTM Firewall route rather than the Proxy route, finances permitting.

 

Don't get me wrong, I'm a happy Smoothwall customer, and I would recommend them, but the UTM route just seems the better option if you're not bolting things onto already-existing infrastructure.