[itdiscuss] Web Filtering

[Jason Powell]

We had over 220 wifi users alone at our Fall conf at GCC in addition to our staff .. all running over opendns.  Been using it for years with no issues.
Jason Powell

From: discuss-bounces at janoah.net [mailto:discuss-bounces at janoah.net] On Behalf Of Dan Barber
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 11:07 PM
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Subject: Re: [itdiscuss] Web Filtering

I can't tell you how many guests we average; OpenDNS doesn't keep that kind of connection. I can tell you we average 75 work clients, with probably 5-10 of those on wireless, and 2-5 guests per day extra on campus. On several days we have outsiders come in for meetings, which brings an additional 20-30 guests on wireless, and we don't have issues.

Dan

2011/1/12 Dustin Drewery <ddrewery at crossroadsokc.com<mailto:ddrewery at crossroadsokc.com>>
How many connections do you avg on guest access? Ever have any issues with too many on opendns?


Dustin Drewery
IT Director
Crossroads Church
Oklahoma City, OK
405.634.1495

On Jan 12, 2011, at 7:15 PM, Dan Barber <dbarber at thekirk.org<mailto:dbarber at thekirk.org>> wrote:
We use the standard (read: free) version of OpenDNS internally and for guest wireless.

Dan

2011/1/12 Bobby Stewart <bStewart at brentwoodbaptist.com<mailto:bStewart at brentwoodbaptist.com>>
Also, as regards price, watch out for the maintenance fees. Many of the UTM solutions require an additional "license" to use the filtering aspect of their product. Also, many of that group charge per user for filtering while others charge a blanket price for all users. That's one of the reasons we chose the Astaro as they charge a blanket price.

This becomes significant when you provide open access to your internet services as we have for our café. In that scenario we may never know the number of users to license until after the fact. With the proliferation of iPhones/iPads, Droids, etc., the number of non-staff users of our Internet services continues to increase which would put an obvious strain on licensing and, potentially, budgeting.

Bobby

From: discuss-bounces at janoah.net<mailto:discuss-bounces at janoah.net> [mailto:discuss-bounces at janoah.net<mailto:discuss-bounces at janoah.net>] On Behalf Of Bobby Stewart
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 10:29 AM

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Subject: Re: [itdiscuss] Web Filtering

Many Unified Threat Management (UTM) firewalls have this capability. We have used two different types.

Fortinet: This was supplied to us by our Internet services provider and was managed by them. I can't speak too much to the management of the unit except that it seemed more complicated to do what little I was permitted than what it could have been. Functionally, it did the job.

Astaro: This is our current solution. I manage this one completely. The basis for this one is a Linux OS baked down to the appliance level with a variety of open source and other services wrapped in their GUI. Once again, very functional... it does the job. As far as content filtering, it feels as good as any that I've used. My negatives about this unit have related to the service I've received (it's a long story) but your mileage may vary. It is lacking on the reporting side.

Jason Powell hosted a webcast for one of the CITRT chats that really intrigued me. Palo Alto Networks has a UTM that has the best GUI I've seen. The management appeared very intuitive. Reporting was beyond anything I've seen. I investigated using these instead of the Astaro. Big issue is price... $4,500 for their least expensive unit and that's with, what I'm told, is a heavy discount.

Bobby Stewart
Network Analyst
Brentwood Baptist Church
Brentwood, TN
www.brentwoodbaptist.com<http://www.brentwoodbaptist.com>
+1 (615) 324-6149 office
+1 (615) 830-0012 cell

From: discuss-bounces at janoah.net<mailto:discuss-bounces at janoah.net> [mailto:discuss-bounces at janoah.net<mailto:discuss-bounces at janoah.net>] On Behalf Of Dustin Drewery
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 9:14 AM
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Subject: [itdiscuss] Web Filtering

We're wanting to install some on-site web filtering.  I'm looking at Barracuda.. any suggestions? Anybody give discounts?

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