Patch Lady – for small businesses remember your firewall is a computer too

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If you are like many small businesses, in addition to the router provided by your Internet provider, you also may have a hardware firewall that goes b
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Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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Yep, eliminating networking infrastructure devices as SPOF is a challenge if you want it done on a small business budget and without being an expert in it yourself…

Even more so if you’re a multi-location small business and have site-to-site tunnels too. (And then a wiring cabinet roof starts to leak somewhere rural halfway between the sites…)

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SG is old. You should use XG. We always dual-stack Sophos devices now. Works well.

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I was planning to upgrade.  The push to do so was not exactly appreciated

 

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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Just why enterprise level operations have dual ingress and redundant/fall back routers, servers and firewalls.
But hopefully they have a dedicated IT staff and not some one from finance in charge of ‘keeping things running’.

Just because you don't know where you are going doesn't mean any road will get you there.

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