Next-Generation Firewall Management

Usually not. We assess what you have, what it can still do, and where it genuinely limits you. Equipment past support or unable to meet a security requirement should be replaced; equipment that is simply older than you'd like often has years left. We'd rather sequence upgrades around your budget than sell a refresh.

Dividing the network so that not everything can reach everything else — separating guest Wi-Fi from company systems, keeping servers apart from general workstations, isolating equipment that can't be secured. It comes up constantly because it is one of the highest-value controls available, and because flat networks are still the norm in businesses that have grown organically.

Nearly always. Poor coverage is usually a design problem rather than a hardware one — access points positioned for convenience rather than coverage, channel interference, or capacity planned for a smaller team than you now have. A survey establishes what is actually happening before anything is bought.

That depends entirely on whether it was planned for. Failover to a secondary connection can be automatic, but it needs designing, and the sensible starting point is deciding what the business can tolerate. For some businesses an hour offline is an inconvenience; for others it stops trading.

More often than they are. Rules accumulate — added for a project, a supplier, a staff member — and are almost never removed. Periodic review is part of how we run firewalls, because the risk isn't usually a badly configured rule, it's the forgotten one that's still open.

Yes, within reason. We have platforms we know deeply and prefer to standardise on — Fortinet firewalls among them — because standardisation makes environments supportable. Where you have something different that is doing its job, we'll support it and tell you honestly if and when it becomes the constraint.