Head, Network Security at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
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2022-08-18T09:47:34Z
Aug 18, 2022
This depends on the current firewall deployment within your organization.
If you currently have a legacy firewall that you need to replace, an estimate of the resource utilization (Interfaces, CPU, disk, etc.) and then adding a little more capacity for future growth will guide the specification of the device that you need to purchase and deploy.
If you do not have a firewall currently, the metrics that could guide you include: expected traffic capacity to guide interface size, log retention policy to guide disk sizing, number of users, etc.
The specification, in this case, may not be too accurate but will be obtained by estimation.
Usually, it is the Internet bandwidth, a number of users and (in the case of NGFW) you have to check if you are going to perform SSL filtering and application control, but lately, they are more concerned about the type of link to the Internet.
Almost all manufacturers have a link to check the size of the firewall, but unfortunately, it is for partners only. If it is possible to have more information we can make an approximation with SOPHOS or Fortinet, if you like.
Data Center - Assistant Group Manager (Information Security) at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
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2022-08-18T08:07:48Z
Aug 18, 2022
1st - Validate your current firewall session throughput and convert it to bytes (instead of bits).
2nd - You must consider the sizing based on Internet Bandwidth, number of users, and LAN connectivity. Internet bandwidth will play a significant role in choosing the right firewall.
3rd - Features & services may also play a significant impact by enabling specific modules like Threat Protection, URL Filter, Sandbox, Anti-Malware, and Anti-Bot.
Hello peers,
I work at a media company and am researching firewalls.
What are the differences between WatchGuard 390 and FortiGate 80F? Which solution do you prefer and why?
Thank you for your help.
Instrutor at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Dec 20, 2022
Hello, The 820 and 850 belong to the family 800 of Palo Alto Firewall.I caught a comparison between both firewalls on the Palo Alto site and I believe it will help with your decision.Regards820 and 850 comparison
Hello peers,
We are looking for a firewall solution in Fortigate for a software training institution with 2000 students. Each student has one laptop and two mobile phones (maximum). There are four Internet connections, two broadbands, and two leased lines (optical fiber). There is no need for content filtering and application control. We need a solution for load balancing and traffic shaping.
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Dec 7, 2022
Hi @Gulzar C , Some of the preferred solutions seen in educational institutes are mentioned below:
Sophos.
Fortinet Fortigate.
Juniper SRX Firewall.
SonicWall.
Untangle was born in the educational sector, and now it has been acquired by Arista in case you would like to check it out. Any solution is recommended, it all depends on the budget, you can also check pfSense which is free. fatpipeinc.com is a native solution for balancing WAN, VERSA for 8 wan, FortiGate, Sophos, VMware and Cisco are the leaders on Gartner. Greetings
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This depends on the current firewall deployment within your organization.
If you currently have a legacy firewall that you need to replace, an estimate of the resource utilization (Interfaces, CPU, disk, etc.) and then adding a little more capacity for future growth will guide the specification of the device that you need to purchase and deploy.
If you do not have a firewall currently, the metrics that could guide you include: expected traffic capacity to guide interface size, log retention policy to guide disk sizing, number of users, etc.
The specification, in this case, may not be too accurate but will be obtained by estimation.
Usually, it is the Internet bandwidth, a number of users and (in the case of NGFW) you have to check if you are going to perform SSL filtering and application control, but lately, they are more concerned about the type of link to the Internet.
Almost all manufacturers have a link to check the size of the firewall, but unfortunately, it is for partners only. If it is possible to have more information we can make an approximation with SOPHOS or Fortinet, if you like.
1st - Validate your current firewall session throughput and convert it to bytes (instead of bits).
2nd - You must consider the sizing based on Internet Bandwidth, number of users, and LAN connectivity. Internet bandwidth will play a significant role in choosing the right firewall.
3rd - Features & services may also play a significant impact by enabling specific modules like Threat Protection, URL Filter, Sandbox, Anti-Malware, and Anti-Bot.
Depends on the firewall and its purpose, but a rule of thumb is to buy based on all UTM features turned on, e.g. protected Mb throughput.
Different vendors have a slower speed for each option you enable on their devices so overestimate the size.
Some vendors will tell you the % of slowdown but consider double the line speed to compensate for the device's slowdown.