What's inside
- Requirements by site: peak throughput, the encrypted share of traffic, remote-access users, high availability and form factor, plus your headroom.
- A datasheet check for each vendor's stated throughput with threat prevention and with TLS inspection, and what inspection costs on that model.
- Fourteen weighted criteria, scored 0 to 5 for up to four vendors.
- Twelve questions to put to each vendor, with a column for whether it showed the answer on your traffic.
- A patch record taken from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
- A five-year cost: hardware, subscriptions, support and the renewal uplift in the contract.
Format: PDF (3 pages) and Excel workbook.
How to use it
Use it from the first shortlist through the proof of concept. The Excel version totals the scores and the cost; the PDF is for working on paper.
Get the worksheet
It is free. We email the download link to your work address.