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XG firewall, can't say I'm impressed

Sci-Tek

Attempted today to swith out the old UTM with XG firewall (home use). Been using this product since Astaro 4.7 (I think), and loved it since day one.

And I can't really say I'm impressed with XG firewall. The GUI is messy while im sure the touch fanboys will love it, personally I hate it. 

There don't seem to be a option to see live log. It could be that I didn't look good enough tho. 
Country blocking, couldn't get it to work. Don't know if it was even supposed to work. 
Specifying FW rules was horrible. I think I actually prefer Windows firewall rule adding to this. 

Reporting was powerfull and I can see thats a improved area.

Unfortunatley the XG firewall named Batman was decapitaed and nuked from orbit. Atleast I tried and wanted to like it.



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    This is wasted effort., the utm was a so superior product, we admit that the heartbeat is a nice feature, but come on, this could have been build in to the utm, much more nicley, i look and acts like c*** this is mile from done, the hole concept is complete disaster for everyone who own a utm box, we have stopped recommending sophos, because we can't stand behind it when we don't have a clue how long time we have left.
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    My guess is that the tech people at sophos know what kind of cr** they relased, but managers and marketing think all they need to have is some nice slides and alot of facebook advertisment to get people on the XG ship. It will be in their own interest to drop work on XG and put focus back on UTM9. Their problem also might be that key developers from UTM went elsewhere and all they can do now is do some basic security updating?

    So what went wrong?
    - complete ignorance to release a pre-beta product as a first impression (XG)
    - lack of updates on UTM9 (allthough the quality of the updates improved over 2015 imho)
    - lack of feedback during beta (no developer feedback)
    -> this one actually makes sense now since XG is not a new product but a relabeled (cyberfoam) product
    - lack of feedback to emails (got asked to send email and was promised to hear from them)
    - clusterfu**up of astaro.org with poor replacement in form of this community site

    what they did right:
    - home user program on XG firewall still alive
    - .. uhm .. anyone?
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  • 0 in reply to rMI
    My guess is that the tech people at sophos know what kind of cr** they relased, but managers and marketing think all they need to have is some nice slides and alot of facebook advertisment to get people on the XG ship. It will be in their own interest to drop work on XG and put focus back on UTM9. Their problem also might be that key developers from UTM went elsewhere and all they can do now is do some basic security updating?

    So what went wrong?
    - complete ignorance to release a pre-beta product as a first impression (XG)
    - lack of updates on UTM9 (allthough the quality of the updates improved over 2015 imho)
    - lack of feedback during beta (no developer feedback)
    -> this one actually makes sense now since XG is not a new product but a relabeled (cyberfoam) product
    - lack of feedback to emails (got asked to send email and was promised to hear from them)
    - clusterfu**up of astaro.org with poor replacement in form of this community site

    what they did right:
    - home user program on XG firewall still alive
    - .. uhm .. anyone?
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