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The large suites are staffed and priced for the Fortune 500. The lightweight mesh tools connect devices and stop there. FowlGuard exists for everyone expected to pass the same audits with a fraction of the people — which is most organisations.
A product that sits between your people and the internet earns scrutiny. These are decisions already made in the software, not statements of intent — each one is a thing the code does or refuses to do.
Each tenant gets its own signing keypair and certificate authority, generated on first run on your host. There is no vendor key that unlocks more than one estate.
Internal service links validate against a pinned authority. Where a trust anchor cannot be loaded, the service refuses to start rather than accepting anything.
Banking, healthcare and government destinations are excluded before any certificate is minted — so interception does not happen for them, rather than being skipped afterwards.
A data-loss alert records the detector and the count, never the matched value. An alert queue quoting card numbers recreates the leak it exists to prevent.
Filtering rules, DLP and AI suggestions all 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.
Including the two where a competitor is the better answer. We would rather say so early than sell you a year of the wrong thing.
Only where you switch it on, and never for the categories on the never-intercept list. Filtering and zero-trust access work without decryption; data-loss prevention and identity restriction need it, which is why both are off by default and separately enabled.
The control plane runs on your infrastructure with your own keys, so the software keeps working. That is a consequence of the architecture rather than a promise — there is no vendor cloud to switch off, because your traffic never went through one.
They are excellent at connecting devices, and if that is all you need they are simpler than us. They do not filter the web, classify outbound content, or give you a block page and an audit trail. We exist for organisations that need those and cannot justify a full SASE programme to get them.
Scale and edge footprint, honestly. They operate a global scrubbing network we do not, and for a multinational with carrier peering requirements they are the right answer. Underneath that tier their deployment timelines and pricing stop making sense, and that is the band we are built for.
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 running report-only the same afternoon and enforce it once they have watched the logs.
If the honest answer is that somebody else fits you better, that is the answer you will get.