Many of our clients onboarded with some firewall device up and running with no immediate reason to change it. The time is coming to update those. We’re also doing a lot more installs from scratch so, we’d like to choose a router/firewall device to standardize on.
Here’s the wishlist:
- All the standard router/firewall features
- Strong VPN capabilities, client and site to site
- Strong security features and logging capabilities
- remote management
- capability to centrally manage all devices from all customers in a single platform/dashboard
We’re open to a software solution that we install on our own hardware but a traditional device we can buy ready to go is our preference.
We’d like to stay away from things with expensive annual licensing if possible.
What would you feel good about rolling out exclusively and why?
Thanks for your input!!
Palo if you can afford it and Fortinet if you can’t.
Fortigate with Forti manger is what you are most likely looking for.
Palos are rock solid but you will pay a premium that most SMBs might balk at. The Forti price point range gives you what you want at a decent price. You can stack switches and wifi off of the fortigate and manage through a single pain of glass. The fortigate sslvpn has a client less mode that I really like that allows connections from a web browser, including rdp. Forti manager is what is going to allow you to centrally manage devices, not sure how it works for MSPs but I know it does. I’ve primarily used these in a enterprise and SMB environment.
FortiGate 80F would likely fit perfect for this.
We use SonicWALL. They can cover just about any size business. They were almost ruined by Dell during their brief acquisition, but they bought themselves back out, and are killing it with new products. They aren’t as easy as Meraki, but are def. More capable. Also their new line of switches and AP’s are very good and all managed from the same interface locally or via their cloud solution. SW also has good virtual firewalls for cloud environments if you need them.