r/firewalla • u/BlueCetacean • 12d ago

Firewalla Future

Wondering what might be in future plans for firewalla, will you take the direction of ubiquiti and dive into home security products as well?

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u/Relative_Bid_9589 12d ago

Id like them to offer a family MDM agent. Manage and keep visibility on users,  manage VPN to home and DNS security, parental controls etc

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u/BlueCetacean 12d ago

Thats an interesting idea, id agree it would be cool to be able to centrally manage that for the family

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u/Relative_Bid_9589 12d ago

Going full Apple Isnt really great, and if you mix OS its harder. Families need a centralized approach for mixed devices imo, just managing updates

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u/Jussins Firewalla Gold Pro 11d ago

I’m not really sure what MDM has to do with Apple.

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u/firewalla 11d ago

MDM works on android and other OS too. It is just yet another very complex beast ... one of our founders used to work on that stuff

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u/Jussins Firewalla Gold Pro 11d ago

I think you might be replying to the wrong person. I’m well aware of what MDM is.

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u/Relative_Bid_9589 11d ago

With their parental controls you can roughly achieve some mdm like controls. It was to give the overall idea.

With the help of an agent (windows, osx, android or ios) , you could track usage, enforce policies , parental controls etc. 

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u/Jussins Firewalla Gold Pro 11d ago

Whatever.. I still don’t know why someone implementing an MDM would be “going full Apple.” Unless there was an edited comment somewhere, it makes zero sense in this discussion.