What should I consider when deciding between On-Prem and SAAS deployments?

Wherever possible AGAT recommends deploying SphereShield using the SAAS option. Where regulatory or other restraints exist On-Prem is suppoted.

Benefits of SAAS

• AGAT’s support team can respond faster to any issues due to greater visibility

• SAAS environments are monitored by the AGAT team using metrics unavailable on prem

• SAAS servers are hosted on AWS with world class connectivity to ensure speed

• The majority of media and application resource traffic bypasses the proxy in any event, so speed differences between on prem and SAAS are negligible

Is there an advantage to simplifying the list of Ethical Wall rules?

SphereShield’s EW supports unlimited communication rules with minimal impact on performance.

However, there are cases where a user experiences unexpected restrictions and asks why an action was blocked. It’s usually a lot easier for the customer’s support team to explain the reasons when policies are simple and straightforward and a minimum amount of them apply to each user.

There’s also less room for error or unexpected behavior when policies are kept simple.