Smoothwall contract

[msi_school]

Good afternoon

 

We are currently going in circles over our Filtering supplier whilst all the time the end of contract date for the smoothwall is coming up, does anyone know what happens when it does expire? Does it stop working, stop filtering, just not have support and updates, or something else?

 

Thanks

[Aprice]

Everything continues to work, however you will stop receiving support, software and blocklist updates.

 

It might be fine for a short period of time, but long term you will probably have issues.

[msi_school]

Thanks I don't know what would be better no internet, no filtering or filtering that looks like it is working but not.

[Aprice]

I think it would be mostly fine.

 

I turned on one of the old boxes we had, when the HTTPS cert was renewed browsers rejected it as the validity period was too long. (used to be 3 years I think) Once updated it reduced that back to one year.

 

That was the only thing really that prevented it from being 'usable', It was only used for testing anyway so blocklists being updated didn't really matter.

[msi_school]

Thank you, I work for a large trust and we only use Smoothwall in a couple of schools , there is currently a discussion about what eh best option is for filtering and the MSP are being very slow with pricing for any option so I just want to have all my ducks in a row when we get tot eh end of support.