Firewall/UTM Recommendations

I would personally ask a reseller in your area to do an assessment of your needs and be able to recommend what you would need based off number of users, the specific uses of the firewall, etc.  They will most likely be pushing the Sophos XG product, which some of us here don't particularly like for our own personal reasons.

The community forums area really more for those of us that don't have access to Sophos support because we don't pay for enterprise licensing and use the free home license.  Sure, we do get quite a bit of questions from enterprise users and some people here can answer them really well with a solution, but the harder things would usually end up with you submitting a support ticket if you paid for the support.

I personally like the UTM product, and I have been using it for over 20 years (when it was still Astaro) in both production and home environments.  It's been a solid piece of software in both arenas.  The interface is very easy (easier than XG in my opinion) to learn as it's web-based and you can control via SSH if you like (I'm visual, so web-based it is for me).  You can run it on Sophos hardware or your own, or even in a VM environment.

I don't really like how much it can bog down the download speeds because of the IPS and web filtering it does, but that's the nature of the beast (I have a 50MB d/l speed at home, I cap at 7.5MB on my downloads).

I've had Cisco PIX, and it's a great product, but purely command line to be able to be efficient at it (any web-based Cisco product is really clunky and laggy in responsiveness).  I hear great things about Fortinet, but I have not personally messed with that product, or Watchguard.  

I would personally ask a reseller in your area to do an assessment of your needs and be able to recommend what you would need based off number of users, the specific uses of the firewall, etc.  They will most likely be pushing the Sophos XG product, which some of us here don't particularly like for our own personal reasons.

The community forums area really more for those of us that don't have access to Sophos support because we don't pay for enterprise licensing and use the free home license.  Sure, we do get quite a bit of questions from enterprise users and some people here can answer them really well with a solution, but the harder things would usually end up with you submitting a support ticket if you paid for the support.

I personally like the UTM product, and I have been using it for over 20 years (when it was still Astaro) in both production and home environments.  It's been a solid piece of software in both arenas.  The interface is very easy (easier than XG in my opinion) to learn as it's web-based and you can control via SSH if you like (I'm visual, so web-based it is for me).  You can run it on Sophos hardware or your own, or even in a VM environment.

I don't really like how much it can bog down the download speeds because of the IPS and web filtering it does, but that's the nature of the beast (I have a 50MB d/l speed at home, I cap at 7.5MB on my downloads).

I've had Cisco PIX, and it's a great product, but purely command line to be able to be efficient at it (any web-based Cisco product is really clunky and laggy in responsiveness).  I hear great things about Fortinet, but I have not personally messed with that product, or Watchguard.