We are a small business looking to upgrade our current firewall, which is a SonicWALL TZ500. There are about 10 users on the network. I have been working with a IT consulting company to see how we can reconfigure our network and add security. They have recommended a Sophos XGS firewall and Sophos endpoints on all of our windows and mac computers. When I look up Sophos firewalls, it seems like there is quite a lot of posts about people not liking these firewalls for various reasons. We are a design company, working off of a local server. The server is a TrueNas system I have built. I would like the designers to be able to work from home. Our current VPN on the SonicWALL is an extremely slow connection. We do have a 1Gig fiber connection, but I would like a firewall that would allow for faster connection speed in the future. I have upgraded all of our equipment to Unifi. Having 10GbE network switches and a UDM ProSE. Would Sophos be a good choice for us? I have also been looking into Fortinet.
Fortinet is a WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY better choice - and more affordable. Your IT “consultant” is pushing their highest profit margin solution - not the best solution to your needs.
I realize this is a bit of an older post now, but does everyone have a vendor of choice for the fortigate or are you buying directly from an IT consultant or just retail?
I would stick with the UDM Pro and look into OpenVPN or Zerotier for the VPN. OPNSense could also be useful in this scenario.
I would definitely not use Sophos for anything.
Can’t go wrong with PFsense due to it’s a small business office.
Perfect for a fortigate.
Can’t go wrong with one for something like this!
Our “consultant” also shows they offer Fortinet on their website. But they only showed us Sophos as an option for us. After reading other forum posts, and looking up reviews. I would rather go the Fortinet or OPNSense route.