Frank Theilen

IT Adviser/Manager with 51-200 employees
Has 10+ Years Of Experience

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Over 3 years ago

Answered a question: What firewalls do support identity-based rules?

What is your goal? If you want to restrict access by identifying the user and use groups for certain access areas, Sophos provides many options. FW combined with endpoint protection and server protection can offer total protection. If you want to use access-based…

Almost 4 years ago

Answered a question: Looking for a piece of advice and tips on the deployment of VPN concentrators for SD-WAN tunnels?

In my opinion, the way SD-WAN is designed, you will need multiple network endpoints or network-based concentrator hardware to handle multiple tunnels incoming. If you host them as virtual devices, you share the underlying network hardware and therefore lose performance, not…

Over 4 years ago

Answered a question: Which is better - Meraki MX or Cisco ASA Firewall?

Meraki is designed for zero deployments and no in-house firewall specialist personnel. Best to secure Networks like remote offices, branches or home offices. Also to protect Internet Access (your computer accesses the internet) Cisco ASA is more of a professional firewall,…

Over 4 years ago

Answered a question: How does Meraki MX compare with Sophos XG?

Almost 6 years ago

Answered a question: Best firewall models for 750 to 1000 users

You might look into a Sophos or Meraki, but I suggest to consider a more holistic approach. If you have 1000 user at one location, I suggest to look into more than one FW in case one is broken or needs maintenance, also to split the bandwidth and support 2+1 Providers. Also…

Almost 6 years ago

Answered a question: Comparing network security vendors and devices

You should defer on what purpose you want to use the firewall and who is supporting it Means: If you like to use a firewall to protect the computer users from accessing the internet, you should look for integration with your other security aspects like AV, IPS, EMail…

Over 8 years ago

Answered a question: Comparison of Barracuda F800, SonicWall 5600 and Fortinet

It depends If you want a firewall for users to access the internet, I recommend Meraki. If you want to publish websites, I recommend Sophos. If you have knowledge about other firewalls and want to use this to configure the devices, use that one. If you have special needs,…

Almost 9 years ago

Contributed a review of Cisco Secure Firewall: The Cisco ASDM management tool was helpful. I would like to see good reporting options.

Almost 9 years ago

Commented on We had a problem with our MX100 and Meraki sent us a spare the next day so we'd have it on hand in case of issues.

These are concurrent users. I would not use any firewall with 500 or more concurrent users but several firewalls. The limitation on the devices is about processing rules, policies, malware and VPN encryption in RAM. Therefore a limit on users. The MX400/600 are designed for…

Almost 9 years ago

Contributed a review of Cisco Meraki MX: Be prepared for a new way of managing networks.

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Trend Micro Enterprise Security Suite, VMWare, Veeam, CloudFlare, Microsoft SQL, Business Process Modeling and Analysis, Industry 4.0 Digital Transformation, Parallel Programming Concepts, in Memory Data Mgmt., SAP business suite basics, HP/DELL Servers, Backup, DR, Cybersecurity, File Services...

Reviews

Almost 9 years ago

Cisco Secure Firewall

The Cisco ASDM management tool was helpful. I would like to see good reporting options.

Almost 9 years ago

Cisco Meraki MX

Be prepared for a new way of managing networks.

Answers

Over 3 years ago

Firewalls

What firewalls do support identity-based rules?

Almost 4 years ago

Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions

Looking for a piece of advice and tips on the deployment of VPN concentrators for SD-WAN tunnels?

Over 4 years ago

Firewalls

Which is better - Meraki MX or Cisco ASA Firewall?

Over 4 years ago

Firewalls

How does Meraki MX compare with Sophos XG?

Almost 6 years ago

Firewalls

Best firewall models for 750 to 1000 users

Almost 6 years ago

Firewall Security Management

Comparing network security vendors and devices

Over 8 years ago

Firewalls

Comparison of Barracuda F800, SonicWall 5600 and Fortinet

Comments

Almost 9 years ago

Firewalls

We had a problem with our MX100 and Meraki sent us a spare the next day so we'd have it on hand in case of issues.

About me

I see myself as an entrepreneur to the continuous improvement in IT.
As hardware, software and license expert I provide TCO optimisation to the business.
My passion to improve allows me to change the IT environment with simple effectiveness.
My strength is structuring IT solutions, predicting failures and managing the life-cycle
to build a trustable IT environment.

Certifications

ITIL v3 foundation
PMP module 1-3
MCSA Windows 2003