Hi,
After playing around with the essentials, trial and home edition I quite like this product...
I am looking to pull the trigger on a few sites... but I am having major licensing headaches. I have been talking to Sophos (As I would be looking to partner) but the area seems very grey.
The primary reason for updating several clients is throughput - I like that I can install my own machinery and have the same product but with superior throughput. We have several clients on multi 100Mbit connections : but these are still small clients, generally sub 25 users.
Users vs IP's Vs Devices Vs devices actually being protected.
We look after all sorts of clients - we have a six strong developer with in the region of 150 development servers spread over 6 physical boxes spanning some 230 IP's once everything is taken into play. Aint no way they are gonna pay upwards of 2.5k per year for mostly natting.
Similarly I have larger clients with perhaps 30 people who have no internal systems but do need web protection and a single VPN which is also very expensive per user.
Even for a 'normal' client with internal systems, once you count everything (Workstation, laptop, phone, tablet, VOIP handset , printer , Smart TV's, Sky Boxes, Music systems, visitors, demo systems, development servers the costs escalate into the ridiculous.
I live with my partner and a 3 year old - yet it is reported that my firewall is protecting ~19 IP's. (2 PC's, 2 Laptops, 2 Phones, 3 tablets, 5 Sonos units, 2 Smart TVs, 1 Sky Box + 2 remote power units - I bitwise stuff to change yet!)
That would cost over a hundred pound a month if I had to pay for it!! For two home users and a baby!
So, my questions: Was it always like this or is this a Sophos thing ? Is it worth it (It's triple the price of many competitors) - ? How 'lax' are they with over stepping the User/Ip/Device grey zones ? It just seems like a mess - what do you guys do ?
Cheers - sorry for the ramble
Zach
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