Surf Protect Quantum thoughts

[johbreaking]

Looking to Move ISP later this year, EXA seem to be coming out with best price on the Leased Line but now considering the quantum web filter as well as our smoothwall is up a few months later. Just looking for thoughts and limitations from moving away from smoothwall to quantum or any other recommendations.

[mavhc]

Decent uptime, no time based options, classifier isn't great and many sites I visit need 30 seconds to classify, for a few months it was broken and didn't classify new sites for hours. Cheap though, practically free. Web interface is ok. I renewed for another 3 years. Reporting is not good, searching logs etc

[Wave9_Lee]

Looking to Move ISP later this year, EXA seem to be coming out with best price on the Leased Line but now considering the quantum web filter as well as our smoothwall is up a few months later. Just looking for thoughts and limitations from moving away from smoothwall to quantum or any other recommendations.

 

Hope you don't mind a recommendation from an interested party - worth a look at Sophos as a Smoothwall replacement. If you're used to an on-prem option, then Sophos XG will do a good job, and with free training and unlimited support from us throughout, low risk. Going from on-prem to cloud will generally mean less visibility and flexibility (not referring to any specific product/provider) and of course, there is firewall, anti-virus/malware and VPN considerations. I'd be happy to provides some prices to compare for you if you like - PM me if interested.