Firewall Solutions South Africa covers the device at the edge of your network and the rules on it: what may come in, what may go out, and how staff reach the office securely from elsewhere. Describe your network and compare appliance prices, subscriptions and management fees.
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Get the Best QuoteWhat a Business Firewall Does
- Filters traffic. Blocks what should not reach your network, in both directions.
- Inspects content. Modern appliances look inside traffic rather than only at ports.
- Provides remote access. A VPN for staff working away from the office.
- Joins sites. Encrypted tunnels between branches.
- Segments the network. Keeping guests, cameras and payment devices apart from the office.
- Manages the internet lines. Failover between two providers, and shaping priority traffic.
- Logs. The record you will need after an incident.
What the Subscription Buys
- Threat intelligence. Updated blocklists, which is most of the value.
- Intrusion prevention. Signatures for known attacks, updated continuously.
- Web and application filtering. Category-based control of what staff can reach.
- Gateway antivirus. Scanning files in transit.
- Firmware and support. Security updates usually stop when the licence lapses.
- Hardware replacement. Advance replacement terms vary and matter.
Firewall Solutions Prices
Ballpark figures, hardware and subscription separately.
| Item | Ballpark price |
|---|---|
| Small office firewall appliance, under 25 users | R8,500 - R28,000 |
| Mid-range firewall appliance, 25 to 150 users | R28,000 - R120,000 |
| Security subscription, small appliance, per year | R6,500 - R28,000 |
| Security subscription, mid-range, per year | R25,000 - R95,000 |
| Configuration and deployment | R8,500 - R45,000 |
| Remote access VPN setup | R4,500 - R18,000 |
| Site to site VPN, per additional site | R3,500 - R12,000 |
| Managed firewall, per site per month | R1,500 - R6,500 |
Prices JUST UPDATED. Ballpark figures, rounded, excluding VAT. They reflect typical South African IT support and technology rates. They are not our prices or quotations, and no provider is bound by them. Confirm what each quotation includes, such as how many users or devices are covered, the response times, after-hours cover and licence fees.
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Get the Best QuoteWhat Affects the Price
- How many users. Appliances are sized by throughput and concurrent connections.
- Your internet speed. Inspection at a gigabit needs a larger appliance than at a hundred megabits.
- Which features you turn on. Deep inspection reduces throughput substantially.
- Number of sites. Each needs an appliance, and central management becomes worthwhile.
- Remote users. Some vendors licence VPN users separately.
- Whether it is managed. An unmanaged firewall is a device nobody updates.
- Redundancy. A failover pair roughly doubles the hardware cost.
What to Include in Your Request
- How many users and devices. Including phones, cameras and anything on the network.
- Your internet lines. Provider, speed and whether there are two.
- How many sites. And whether they need to be joined.
- How many remote workers. And whether they use company or personal machines.
- What you have now. Make, model and age, and whether the licence is current.
- Any compliance driver. A client requirement or an insurer's questionnaire.
Before the Provider Quotes
- Ask for throughput with inspection on. The headline figure is almost always with it off.
- Check the subscription renewal price. Year one is often discounted and year three is not.
- Ask who manages it. A firewall with no one applying updates ages badly.
- Ask for the configuration and passwords. You should hold administrator access to your own device.
- Ask about the replacement term. What happens when the appliance fails on a Friday.
- Ask about logging. Where logs are kept and for how long, which matters after an incident.
Firewall Solutions FAQs
Is the router from my internet provider enough?
For a household, usually. For a business, no. Provider routers do not segment networks, do basic or no content inspection, have limited VPN capability and are rarely updated. The step up to a business appliance is the single clearest security improvement most small offices can make.
What throughput do I need?
Match it to your internet line, but use the vendor's figure with threat inspection enabled, which is often a third of the headline number. An appliance sized on the marketing figure becomes the bottleneck the moment the security features are switched on.
Do I have to pay the subscription every year?
If you want the device to remain useful, yes. Without it you lose updated threat data, intrusion signatures and, on most vendors, firmware updates - which means an unpatched device at the edge of your network. Budget for the renewal as a running cost from the start.
Do we still need a VPN if everything is in the cloud?
Less than before. If your email, files and applications are all cloud services protected by multi-factor authentication and conditional access, a VPN adds little. You still need one to reach anything on the office network, such as a server or a line of business application.
How long does a firewall last?
Five years is a reasonable planning figure, and the limit is usually support rather than failure: vendors stop issuing firmware for older models, which makes them a liability. Replace when the vendor announces end of support, not when the device stops working.
Should we have two internet lines?
If the business runs on cloud services, yes, and the firewall is what makes the second line useful - it detects the failure and switches over automatically. Two lines from different providers over different technologies is the arrangement that actually survives a fibre break.
Firewalls are supplied and managed by many of the providers on IT Support South Africa usually as part of a wider security arrangement.
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