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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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    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.  

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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.  

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  • 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