WatchGuard VPN review

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Hello,

So I am a new hire at this company and I was brought in to focus on their VPN solution (they have none atm) but I come to find out that we have a WatchGuard M290 Firebox. We have the basic plan for about another year but Im seeing online that some people are saying you can have the VPN still setup once your subscription is up or that it really doesn’t need the subscription at all. I have to come up with a presentation for leadership with options and currently this seems like the best option, my other idea is Cisco’s AnyConnect but why spend money when you don’t have to. I am still very new to all of this so any insights from industry vets would be awesome and go a long way to making this presentation be effective. Any more insights yall might need I can provide.

Thank you!

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It will work fine for all mobile and site-to-site VPN options if it had a subscription which has now expired. All of the other layer4 features will work too. You will obviously be lacking all the UTM security services though. The biggest concern will be that you cannot update the firmware, so cannot get security patches when they are released.