Smoothwall Native Client & Browser Extension

[synaesthesia]

Hi all,

 

I'm just going through our safeguarding software with a fine toothed comb, and just thought of something.

Is there any benefit to having the smoothwall native client & browser extension installed on domain joined machines? Obviously they're already protected by our on-site appliance, and the only thing I can think of is if devices go off site. In our case that'd only relate to staff devices.

Would it provide any benefit or would it just be overcomplicating? I'm all for having a backstop in case one system fails or has a glitch, so if it's going to give us a little more peace of mind then I'm all for it

 

Cheers

[tom_newton]

Probably the best benefit is that authentication is extremely reliable in the client, and the filtering is starting to diverge as doing full https inspection at the network edge gets harder.

Having said that, on machines that don't leave the building, there's no major downside to sticking with a working on-prem system.

 

[synaesthesia]

Cheers Tom