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Buying a used XGS 107

stego

Gday,

A seller on Kijiji is offering a “never used” in box XGS 107 for $200 CDN. 

I’m looking to get into Sophos hardware and endpoint security to perhaps eventually start a small MSSP. 

This deal seems a little too good to be true as this unit sells close to $700-800 new from a distributor in Canada. 

I plan to run this in a home lab and use it for training. Eventually may deploy as main router and buy an APX. 

the other question is licensing. As a home user, I don’t think any of the licensing will be affordable or make sense. But to build up my skill set I would need access to deployed equipment manges in Sophos central. I’m more interested in network protection, web filtering etc  No mes for server and email or cloud protection licenses at this point  

I am currently testing Sophos Central and endpoint security on a couple of machines free for 30 days. I’ve used Sophos UTM and XG in the past on my own hardware so I do have experience with Sophos. 

Any advice or tips?



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    Salut Stephane,

    you will be better off running a home license on your own hardware. This will give you more power than a small XG107 for sure and should be no problem with a home license.

    Mit freundlichem Gruß, best regards from Germany,

    Philipp Rusch

    New Vision GmbH, Germany
    Sophos Silver-Partner

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  • 0 in reply to jprusch

    Thanks Philipp

    Understood. But my plan was to get trained up in Sophos product offerings and get certified at some point and be in a position to offer services. Can’t really get anywhere with a home license

    I get the impression Sophos is a bit of walled garden and unless you have an established IT company with a certain client based, you don’t get to enter. 

  • 0 in reply to stego

    You're talking about two separate things. In the purely technical and training sense, what jp says is true; you'd be better with home. In relation to the hardware, I'd personally not touch anything smaller than a 135.

    In terms of becoming a sophos partner/mssp - it's a more complex question. 

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  • 0 in reply to stego

    You're talking about two separate things. In the purely technical and training sense, what jp says is true; you'd be better with home. In relation to the hardware, I'd personally not touch anything smaller than a 135.

    In terms of becoming a sophos partner/mssp - it's a more complex question. 

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    worlds number one free ICMP monitoring platform: https://pinescore.com

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