Cisco Umbrella | Leader in Cloud Cybersecurity and SASE Solutions. Source: over 1 year ago

A combination of subscription ip blocklists like that sold by MaxMind combined with DNS and application filtering services like Umbrella would catch most services. For good measure I'd toss in local .exe application whitelisting running on each of the schools machines to only allow the applications the school wants using something like applocker which is included in windows so it probably fits into their budget. Source: over 1 year ago

We've been very happy with Cisco's Umbrella product. A few years back I "test drove" the free version, but thats a very poor substitute for the paid product. It's not cheap, but it has worked very well for us. Over 70% of our users are remote since the start of COVID, so we opted for the "roaming client" installation on every endpoint. We have a "basic" network profile for our office locations that slightly... Source: almost 2 years ago

Eh, a week to crash course vSphere with unknown "plus to know"? You can learn ESXi + vCenter(vSphere) in a couple days, but you wont still "know it", just have exposure to it. I would start by pulling up ESXi and vCenter deployment videos and downloading the trials from vmware.com and star there. Source: about 1 year ago

I used the Feb 23 Dell vendor ISO from vmware.com and the upgrade went fine as expect. Source: about 1 year ago

Yes, I see it consists of the same products, but they are managed by that SDDC appliance. I just found a "VCF FAQ" at vmware.com, which answers some questions:. Source: about 1 year ago

Oh, you can try ESXi as a VM under Fusion, assuming an Intel-based Mac. Just register at vmware.com and download the beast. If you're curious. (There's also and ARM-based version of ESXi but, eh.) Of course "corporate" ESXi really becomes itself when you run it with all the complementary stuff and manage it using vCenter Server. Source: about 1 year ago

I used a Virtual Machine from vmware.com which worked. Source: over 1 year ago