Managed Firewall Services

Cyber Security

With Cybersecurity incidents costing the average small business around £25,700 a year, SMEs should not ignore the importance of cybersecurity in the post-pandemic era. Over its ten year history, TWC IT Solutions, the North London-based IT company, has supplied cybersecurity and managed firewall services across seven different industries – from non-profit charity to the financial sector, with differing setups, from virtualised thin-client VPN firewall arrangements to on-premise dual-resilient failover projects. Here at TWC, we’ve got IT covered.

200+ London businesses have trusted us so far.

Managed Firewall Solutions offered by TWC

With over ten years of expertise in managing IT infrastructure, TWC promises to offer the most suitable product in line with your company’s requirements due to its product-agnostic approach. Fuel your business growth and take a proactive stance in high-end security and maximum efficiency with TWC’s managed firewall solutions. Our list of services includes leading, established brands, such as UniFi, Draytek, Fortinet, SonicWall, Palo Alto, and Cisco, to maximise your network security and maintain business continuity.

Here is the list of managed firewall solutions TWC offers:

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Cisco Meraki Cisco’s Meraki is one of the most popular solutions around. It consists of an extensive set of IT and network solutions that include wireless, switches, firewalls and CCTV – unleashing the power of the Cloud to give an excellent user experience. The core of the Cisco Meraki Firewall is the centralised, Cloud-based dashboard interface that provides unified management of the entire network, mobile devices, Macs, or PCs. It makes it accessible to perform remote, live troubleshooting on thousands of managed devices, enforce device security policies or deploy software and apps.

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UniFi Security Gateway The UniFi Security Gateway provides powerful performance with convenient VLAN support. Its advanced firewall policies protect your network, cloud environments, staging servers, and company databases, whilst creating virtual network segments for security and network traffic management. The built-in site-to-site VPN secures and encrypts your private data and communications. Its Quality of Service (QoS) for enterprise VoIP is assigned to voice/video call traffic for clear calls and lag-free video streaming.

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DrayTek DrayTek’s Security Firewall, high-performance dual WAN router is able to connect many remote worker’s VPN tunnels simultaneously. Due to its advanced DrayTek router functionality, it easily secures and segments your networks. It offers high firewall throughputs with huge flexibility for small businesses. By saving time and money, it provisions, monitors, and manages remote sites, resulting in improved quality of service for private and guest data traffic.

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Fortinet Virtual Firewall Fortinet’s
Cloud-based, centralised management system has the ability to manage virtual and physical appliances from a single pane of glass management platform to keep your business safe from attack. It allows you to provision security infrastructure whenever it is needed rapidly. While it offers increased visibility within virtualised infrastructure monitoring. It also protects from a wide range of threats with additional support for services of the FortiOS operating system.

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SonicWall SonicWall’s cybersecurity tool offers an advanced network and firewall security solution that tracks your system and detects attacks in real-time. It integrates multi-layer ransomware prevention, transparent encrypted traffic, wireless and mobile breach detection, and email security designed for networks of all sizes. It can halt unidentified attacks by providing advanced threat protection via a cloud-hosted
multi-engine sandbox. As a result, it offers rigorous protection for businesses with remote working devices, including emails, ensuring that private and sensitive data are secured against all kinds of threats.

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Palo Alto Networks The Palo Alto
next-generation firewall solution offers
real-time content scanning with an innovative platform to protect against viruses, spyware, data leakage, and application vulnerabilities. It secures your network by identifying, controlling, and inspecting SSL encrypted traffic and applications. It delivers visibility and allows you to manage applications, users and content within the firewall due to its highly optimised hardware and software architecture.

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Managed Firewall: The Benefits for a business

It reduces business costs: By having a managed firewall system installed, you benefit from a robust cybersecurity system. Instead of purchasing or self-maintaining the hardware, you will have it managed and maintained by our team of IT experts.

Additional support from experts: It saves you the time and money spent hiring reliable and qualified IT staff. By investing in a managed firewall system, you gain access to our IT experts’ knowledge, who are ready to resolve any cybersecurity issues that may occur immediately.

It helps you stay up-to-date: You no longer need to worry about installing the latest updates for your firewall. Leave this responsibility to us; we are able to update your systems using remote solutions.

You avoid business downtime: Another great benefit of having a managed firewall system is that an integral part of your disaster recovery plan is natively in place. It also means having our IT support team constantly working on detecting new threats your business might face.

Access to detailed reports: By using a managed firewall, you also get access to a detailed list of threats that may help you analyse your defences and identify potential weaknesses.

Managed Firewall Key Features

Below is a list of features that TWC’s Managed Firewalls solution includes:

● Powerful Firewall Performance
● Convenient VLAN Support
● VPN Server for Secure Communications
● QoS for Enterprise VoIP
● Versatile Multi-WAN Failover
● Designed for Centralised Management
● Virtual Private Networking
● Single pane of glass management platform to manage both virtual and physical devices
● Support for multiple virtualisation and cloud platforms
● SD-WAN and Zero-Touch Deployment Capabilities
● Deep Memory Inspection
● SSL/TLS Decryption and Inspection
● Visibility into applications, web traffic, threats and data patterns
● Detailed analysis of all traffic and device activities
● Industry Best Encryption Security
● Advanced malware protection, Anti-virus and phishing control

Managed Firewall Services Pricing

We are SME experts.

When delivering IT-specific services to the SME market, the size of the business and the complexity of the infrastructure are paramount. Whereas a twenty-strong company may only need a server and workstations, a thousand user organisation would require a multi-layered approach, e.g. multiple internet circuits, networks, and security instances.

“At TWC IT Solutions, we treat every new customer like our very first.”

When recommending a specific managed firewall solution, there are many variables that need to be considered and taken into account. What size business infrastructure would the managed firewall be sitting on? Does the firewall need to be physical ‘in office’ or virtualised, configured as part of a Cloud platform, such as Azure, AWS, or Google? Is more than one managed firewall required for different circuits, failover, or servers? And what network layer technology is the firewall managing? We address the main pains of SMEs – internet connectivity bandwidth and speed, adequate cybersecurity, hybrid, remote, office-based work solutions – by knowing the right time to utilise the cloud as opposed to physical servers. We take all the afore-mentioned information into consideration, in order to recommend the best-managed firewall solution for your business.

Our managed firewall plans start from just £30/month.

Managed Firewall Services FAQ

What is a managed firewall?

A managed firewall is a security system managed by a team of IT experts. While it actively monitors your network and blocks unauthorised incoming connections, it maintains business security and continuity without having to invest in expensive resources.

How many types of managed firewall services are there?

There is a wide range of firewall services available. However, TWC works with the most trusted and reliable providers such as UniFi, Draytek, Fortinet, SonicWall, Cisco, and Palo Alto. Alternatives may also be discussed and explored.

Does TWC offer 24/7 support in case something goes wrong?

Absolutely. TWC is one of the few companies with ‘follow-the-sun’ support locations in the UK, Asia, and the Americas, which makes us able to support our client base 24/7/365.

What about the onboarding process? Will TWC help us?

TWC will guide you through the whole implementation process. Our dedicated service and engineering team are here to answer your call within 10 seconds and offer you feedback within 10 minutes as part of our SLA. Should you need anything, we will be there for you.

My business is not London-based. Can TWC still serve me efficiently?

Of course. We operate across three different countries – Greater London in the UK, Jersey City in the USA, and Central, Hong Kong – globally across three different time zones, making us the most efficient IT solution provider. We answer your calls within ten seconds and offer you feedback in ten minutes as part of our industry-leading SLA.