Firewalls: Don’t Settle for a Knock Off

There are substitutes and then there is the real deal.  In today’s world you can get almost anything that imitates the real deal.  My daughter recently bought a real Gucci belt, I think she paid $450.  I don’t know the actual price because she knows that I don’t believe.  I’m guessing she could get an imitation for $45, and who would know?  Everybody that matters to her would know, and she would know.  Instead of the social prowess of Gucci brand, she’d have something less-prow.

I don’t get the social prowess of Gucci, but I do get security prowess, and you can have it for less than half the price of a Gucci belt.  Unifi Security Gateway is a real firewall, in fact a second-generation firewall.  It comes in several of Pluto Micro’s monthly services subscriptions, complete with hardware replacement and support.

If Unifi Security Gateway is a real firewall, then what isn’t?  What isn’t is the thing that your internet service provider provides, and the thing you bought at Best Buy, that is a simple router.  A router connects one network to another (your office to the internet), and manages the connection, and passes through select data. 

A firewall is a router specifically designed for the internet;  it also blocks specific data coming from the internet and specific data going out to the internet. 

A second-generation firewall detects attacks from the internet.

A second generation firewall also filters unwanted content from your network, such as phishing sites, crypto-locker gateways, and pornography.

Obviously you can choose what comes in or out, but only if you have a firewall.

Do you have something that does that for your office?  If not, you are settling for less-prow security.  It should be noted that you can pay hundreds or thousands of dollars for a second-generation firewall, for brands like Cisco, Juniper, Sonicwall, Brocade, Fortinet; but a Unifi Security Gateway is security prowess for micro business at a fraction of the cost.