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Armor on R8000 does not run Vulnerability Scans
9 days ago I activated the 30 day Armor trial on my R8000 router (Firmware V1.0.4.46_10.1.63) with the primary aim of leveraging the Vulnerability Scan capability for the many devices I have on my n...
Investigating a little further, I am really struggling to see that Armor is doing anything at all beyond giving me a dashboard list of my devices that I already have via the standard R8000 configuration interface.
No threats have been reported - this despite the R8000 itself emailing reports of blocked sites. No Vulnerability scans are reported and now I notice the the Nighthawk app shows me an empty Protection Level History with a "No Data Found" error when I try to view the log after 10 days of operation.
The claimed feature set is very attractive - but does it actually work? Does Armor do anything beyond provide yet another interface?
My experience so far is the R8000 without armor, together with my previous, much cheaper, anti-malware solution provides equally as much functionality - more even; I don't see the point at all of the iOS armor app at all which just replicates services already freely available to all.
Is it worth me investing more time this?
