Small Rural District Firewall and Security Solutions RFI
Lanier County School DistrictSchool · Lakeland, GAThe 30-second brief
A small rural school district is seeking information and pricing for a comprehensive security and firewall solution to protect three physical locations connected via 10Gig fiber. The scope includes IoT security, malware detection, network segmentation, VPNs, patch management, and potential replacement of existing Fortigate and Sophos MDR solutions. The district is interested in comparing cloud-based Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS) against on-premises solutions. The environment consists of roughly 300 Windows 11 systems, MacOS Catalina devices, and various IoT devices (switches, cameras, printers, WAPs) across protected VLAN segments. Vendors should provide feature and price breakdowns, including options for hosting security-related VMs in a VMware environment and identity governance tools.
Price and feature breakdown between cloud based and on prem solutions, Pricing for identity governance tools
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Summary
A small rural school district is seeking information and pricing for a comprehensive security and firewall solution to protect three physical locations connected via 10Gig fiber.
The scope includes IoT security, malware detection, network segmentation, VPNs, patch management, and potential replacement of existing Fortigate and Sophos MDR solutions. The district is interested in comparing cloud-based Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS) against on-premises solutions. The environment consists of roughly 300 Windows 11 systems, MacOS Catalina devices, and various IoT devices (switches, cameras, printers, WAPs) across protected VLAN segments. Vendors should provide feature and price breakdowns, including options for hosting security-related VMs in a VMware environment and identity governance tools.
REQUIRED DELIVERABLES
Price and feature breakdown between cloud based and on prem solutions, Pricing for identity governance tools
- Reported agency
- Small Rural District
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