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Home and Business Firewall (Really cheap, Really Good)

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So with IOT at home and the office. i am currently in talks to bring in personal and business firewalls that are plug and play. Fully controllable for extra security.

So far the pricing is roughly around R2500 for home and R4000 for the office.

What would everyone's thoughts be. is there a market in South Africa?
 
More details? Are these PFsense box's? You'd need to make an argument as to why a decent Mikrotik, or Edgerouter X wont do? Yes I realise they are not dedicated firewalls, but with their low cost & decent firewall abilities for a home / small business, you may find it hard.
 
More details? Are these PFsense box's? You'd need to make an argument as to why a decent Mikrotik, or Edgerouter X wont do? Yes I realise they are not dedicated firewalls, but with their low cost & decent firewall abilities for a home / small business, you may find it hard.
+1 and not everyone needs fort knox at home.
 
so busy talking to them about getting me some demo units in. (COVID) killing me on the units. The units are fully plug and play.

scan the QR code to gain access from your phone and voila. You have the full portal and control of your network.
 
It really depends on the feature set and underlying platform.

For home users it'll likely be a win. For corporate users, there might be more details required.

Any idea of the underlying OS (e.g. pfSense?)
 
So for home you can Purchase a Atom CPU Supermicro server - they are relatively cheap and run Sophos for home... its free to license and it has all the same features as Business infact you can even setup a Quick SSL site2site vpn using it to your office :D
Then just buy a Small server with 2 NICs and Pay for the Sophos License and installl Sophos.
Mikrotiks can be iffy to work with sometimes. I use them at home prefferably. But in the Office Sophos has been great! Sophos Plus Sophos Intercept X is a win in my books 100%...
UBNT is obviously a really Nice mid pioint for office VS home Deployment its for the Medium sized bussiness looking to grow. and Some of their equipment can become pricey. I would motivate for office use Sophos + Sophos Intercept X on every machine. this ensures no intrusions and Stops an infected machine infecting the rest of the network. Then at home get the cheap supermicro and register sophos intercept X on it... Or go Mikrotik like me. you can actually still setup the SSL VPN to sophos from a mikrotik its tricky but works though.
 
We go abit stronger machines for the home. dual - quad nics and quad core processors. as these firewalls replace the need for a router.

We still in dev and testing phase. but can say they work well on the new ryzen mini pc's
 

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