A firewall is only as good as the way it is run: rules that grow untidy, firmware that falls behind and alerts nobody reads. Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) hands that work to a team that does it every day. FirstNet provides, configures and supports the firewall, and you keep control of what it allows.
Choose where the firewall lives
- Hosted by FirstNet: Fortinet Hosted VDOM Lite or Enterprise, or a dedicated Sophos Firewall Virtual instance for each customer
- On site: a dedicated FortiGate or Sophos XGS appliance at your premises, for data sovereignty, latency, local breakout or high WAN throughput
What FirstNet runs for you
- Firewall policy, NAT, routing, segmentation and VPNs
- Firmware and signature updates, with a quarterly firmware programme
- Monitoring, approved changes with rollback, and incident response within the agreed scope
- Monthly reports on policy revisions, firmware drift and licence use
For Fortinet estates, FirstNet adds managed FortiManager for central control and FortiAnalyzer as a Service for log analytics, hosted in South Africa and billed in rands.
Sized on real traffic
Firewalls are sized on real inspected traffic, not line speed, so FirstNet gathers users, sites, peak throughput and SSL inspection needs before recommending a model.
Read more on the Firewall as a Service page, or see what Firewall as a Service is in the Knowledge Hub.