The large suites are priced and staffed for the Fortune 500. The mesh tools connect devices and stop there. Fowlguard gives everyone else the whole thing: access, filtering, agent visibility and the record an auditor asks for, in force minutes after you install it.
A product that sits between your people and the internet earns scrutiny. These are answers rather than intentions, and each one is how the product already behaves.
Every customer’s trust is established on their own infrastructure. There is no vendor key that unlocks more than one estate.
Where trust cannot be established, the product stops rather than carrying on without it. Nothing is waved through because checking it was inconvenient.
Banking, healthcare, government and legal destinations are excluded from inspection out of the box. Your administrator can change that, because your counsel knows your jurisdictions and we do not.
Filtering rules default to reporting. Nothing this product proposes starts blocking traffic without a person deciding it should.
Policy, logs, identity and traffic stay on infrastructure you run. There is no vendor cloud in the path, which is also why there is no vendor outage in it.
The questions worth asking any vendor that sits between your people and the internet, and what our answers cost you everywhere else.
No. Decisions are made on the device, and where content inspection is switched on it happens on your own machine under your own certificate, with banking, healthcare, government and legal exempt by default. Your unencrypted traffic never leaves your infrastructure and never reaches ours.
No. There is nothing to be locked into. The control plane runs on your infrastructure under your own keys and your traffic never crossed ours, so there is no vendor cloud to switch off. Architecture, not a policy.
They connect devices and stop there. No web filtering, no agent inventory, no block page, no audit trail, so the first compliance question costs you a second product, and a third to reconcile the two. This is connectivity and control, under one identity.
Where the decision is made. They send your traffic to their data centres to be judged, and you pay for that detour on every packet: latency, a dependency that fails when they do, and a third party watching where your staff go. We decide on the device.
No. Every suggestion arrives switched off and report-only, and a person has to save it. A model that mistook report for block would fail in the direction that matters, so it is never given the last word.
One script on a host you choose, then an installer per device. People sign in with the identity provider you already use. Most teams have a rule in force within minutes.
Tell us what you are expected to pass, and we will show you the rule that does it.
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