UTM or Firewall

waelsch

Hello,
I know what the UTM and firewall used for but I have a question
we are planning for our Head office we are about 250 we will connect 2 branches as VPN site-to-site and 1 as Leased line
the total number in branches is about 200 max.
is it better to place two UTM devices (for redundancy) at the edge network Fortinet 200B or 111C or to have two Cisco ASA 5510 or 5520 and one UTM to do web filtering,antivirus, proxy ,IPS
our requirments are
Firewall
VPN client
VPN site-to-site
Antivirus
proxy
IPS
web filtering and application control
Thanks and Regards,

Ahriakin

I'd go with 2 clustered UTMs. Besides anything else your management headaches will be reduced. Whoever was operating the devices would have to maintain parallel skillsets and troubleshoot 2 different OS' for one related issue, perhaps more importantly if you had to call the vendor TAC each would blame the other once they knew there was a competitor inline.

networkjutsu

Have you considered Palo Alto Networks?

it_consultant

Our experiences with PAN products have been pretty bad. We paid a lot of money to get something that, IMHO, works worse than Watchguard.

discount81

For a smaller site like that I would seriously consider an Untangle UTM appliance, it does everything you need and it works really well.

Lizano

I'd go for clustered UTMs as well. If you are thinking Fortigate, feel free to PM me, I work with a Fortinet Partner and might be able to help with some recommendations.