CyberSecure and EFG

https://blog.ui.com/article/unifi-network-9-0-built-to-scale

Little bit of a public service announcement about the Enterprise Fortress Gateway.

If you read this blog you might be mistaken for thinking CyberSecure gives you one option on something like a UDM Pro Max, the $99/yr choice with 55000 signatures, and then on EFG you'd get two options and pick between 55000 signatures ($99) and 95000 signatures ($499).

That seems to not be the case, EFG can only be subscribed to the $499/yr option and Ubiquiti Support confirmed that's by design, if you won't also spend $499/yr you cannot have CyberSecure on EFG.

This is a bit disappointing to me because I'd hoped for a gateway with >5Gbps of throughput so beyond the UDM Pro Max, and which could do IPS, and I viewed the EFG as an expensive one-time cost with a probably reasonable ongoing cost for the signatures equivalent to the UDM Pro Max and understanding maybe the premium upgrade to 95k would make it less complete. Nope!

Happy networkin' out there this 2025 everyone. Hope this helped at least one person. <3