Cyberoam vs Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series

• Easy to use compared to other firewall/UTM products
• Good for SMB and enterprise, but also high marks for a K-12 use case
• Longevity and reliability

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• AppID is able to see what the actual internet traffic is. For instance instead of port 443 just being "Internet traffic" we can define access to Facebook-base or all the other facets of facebook.
• UserID allows us to define policies based on group or user access and integrates with our Active Directory. This helps to configure a least access privilege and if we find misuse of the network we can tighten specific users to a stricter policy.
• GlobalProtect VPN connection helps our employee's connect from home remotely. This provides a very secure connection with minimal configuration.
• Wildfire provides very up-to-date information regarding global attack mitigations and stopping techniques.

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• Without mentioning an alternative brand, there is another leading company who has updated with firewall UI quite a bit. They offer an expanded line-up to meet a wider array of needs including specific appliances for web caching, proxy servers, and other products that have the same and familiar UI across the products. Each of the products does have some overlap so that customers can choose the right appliance for their use case.
• After being acquired by Sophos, we saw our year-over-year costs escalate significantly since our original maintenance contract. They should consider revisiting the pricing, especially for education.
• They should consider a current market analysis and see how the market is changing and adapting with other lower cost appliances for their product line up.

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• The CLI is a bit confusing, and it's difficult to find what you're looking for. Takes a lot of practice. Definitely not as good as the Cisco CLI.
• Updating the firmware is often a very dangerous process, especially when jumping minor or major releases. More QA should be done to validate and ensure no issues during upgrades. I'll admit it's gotten better over time, but there is still room for improvement.

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• Positive - time and cost savings on management
• Positive - still best in class for ease of CIPA compliance for K-12
• Negative - escalating costs are pushing us away from the solution

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• Utilizing Panorama to manage all of our Firewalls Policies by creating device groups is a real time saver. We only need to configure policies once and push them to the appropriate firewalls saving a lot of time.
• Having the added security feature protection is good peace of mind in an ever-increasing threat landscape.
• Monitoring traffic by IP, URL or username provides excellent insight into our traffic.

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