Securly - Easy setup or not?

[Setro]

Hi All,

 

Our School currently has Smoothwall but we are not happy with it's technical challenges and cost. We are looking at moving over to Securly, it looks the part, but what I want to know is can network novice like myself, set this up or does it require someone with senior networking knowledge.

 

Kind regards,

 

Setro

[CJF]

Hi Setro

 

I’ll help you get up and running. Once you have an account created I’ll send through a welcome message with all the details you should need and I include a link to my calendar in case you’d prefer a remote session.

 

Craig

[Securly_Marc]

Hey Setro,

 

My answer may be slightly biased! But i'd say our set-up is easy - anything you need help with, you can use our sales engineers and support engineers to help with - our professional services are all free of charge.

 

If you want to run through anything with me, just let me know!

 

Thanks,

 

Marc

[rogerdnixon]

Its pretty easy to setup. Chromebooks you push the extension and lock down a few settings, other platform you push the SmartPAC proxy settings and point your external DNS at Securly. Sync OUs to Securly and set whatever policies you want. We run most of our Trust schools of one Securly console and its dead easy to onboard new schools.

[KK20]

depends on your setup really. Do you look after your own network DNS? If so then that is the forwarder part sorted. Can you add a certificate to all your clients easily using GPO, MDM etc? Thats another part done. Can you easily add a smartPAC to your MDM or GPO? Job done on the hardware side. Software is a case of linking your preferred logon sync, we use office 365 and that was easy enough.

 

Guest networks depend on your own setups. It took me around 30 mins to set up the majority of my academic side and a couple of days for the guest as I needed to chat to an fro with technical support (I wasnt in a hurry else I could have pushed or rang).