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With Meltdown and Spectre slowing devices as much as 45% (measured), how Sophos plan to compensate customers ?

Big_Buck

Hello

Benchmarks regarding performance hits are as ugly as it was mentioned last week.  Reports are officially poping all over the net.

With Meltdown and Spectre slowing devices as much as 45% (measured in real life), how Sophos plan to compensate customers ?

Paul Jr



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    I would like to know this as well, how all will be managed. If CPU will slow down by 45% our device will become too slow for what we was planing when we bought it.

     

    Thanks

  • 0 in reply to Tadas A

    Hi folks,

    I don't think you should be asking Sophos for compensation, but asking Sophos to submit a claim on Intel on behalf of all its customers for the increased security risk and possible performance hit to the security boxes based on Intel provided data about the performance of the hardware?

    Ian

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    This is actually a question that needs to be addressed as I am potentially in the market for a new Sophos firewall to add at another site for redundancy and I don't know what the size at this point, if I get a unit that is fine today but may lose 45% of its capacity tomorrow I am sunk.  

  • 0 in reply to Bill Roland

    I think the question needs to be asked of the customer base who are asking for compensation as to how secure their XG/SG devices are?

    Who has access to your XG/SG to run code on that is not part of the firewall build? Why would you allow this 'person' access to do this, doesn't that compromise your security?

    For those customers running XG/UTM on VMs then you have a bigger issue with controlling access and those security devices running in the cloud what control do you have over your rented space?

    Ian

  • 0 in reply to Bill Roland

    Exactly ...  You bought a 135W  but it is in fact a 105W ...

    And guess what ?  What will happen to your renewals with a device that much slower ?  You have the performance of an 105, but you pay renewal for a 135 ?

    PJR

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    Lets not jump to conclusions over what the real world impact is on the SG/XG hardware line.  Lets wait until the changes are in first.

    I know that in v18 there are large improvements to performance that are software only (eg applies to all hardware).  Worse case I think that they will cancel each other out.

    VM and customer supplied boxes, Sophos does not provide the hardware.  So performance is up to the client.

  • 0 in reply to Michael Dunn

    Hi folks,
    I have upgraded the BIOS on my home XG to a beta version which contains the bug fix for both of the issues. So far I have not noticed any performance hit.

    Ian

  • 0 in reply to rfcat_vk

    wow this is an absolute mess tho