Recently started working for a company to be their on site network administrator, they currently have a co-managed agreement with an MSP that I’ve been having issues with doing some changes, the main headache right now is the company’s VPN being awfully bad. I recommended we migrate from sonicwall to a ubiquiti, since the company is not as big and also because I find sonicwall and fortinet kinda bad because of their security issues in the past. What are you guys using for firewall, is going with ubiquiti a good move or do you guys use other options.
MSP uses sonicwall and Aruba switches for all their customers and have software that does automatic audits on for these brands which are kinda overkill to have Aruba switches comparing to the prices of ubiquiti
Not sure if you’re still working with projects like that Tom but have you been recommending unifi over pfsense now? I know unifi and pfsense aren’t a complete NGFW with all those subscription features yet but also do we really need those? Or just the cyber secure do it and then we have other tools for endpoint protection
NGFW is a marketing term, I focus on what requirements are needed for a project and then suggest solutions that meet those requirements. The pfsenes firewalls are still solid, lots of clients using them. but now that UniFi has caught up in features and we are already using their switches and access points they intergrate well as a solution.
I have a dedicated video showing how their Cybersecure system works:
NGFW in the broad sense usually has security services available that work above layer 4, but to Tom’s point can depend on the vendor. When it comes to remote access VPN, I think Palo Alto and Cisco have solid solutions worth exploring as well.