lnicula:That is correct! Most of our Blink Professional customers don't even use the firewall.
Really?
Quite frankly if I was put in charge of a company network, using the firewalls would make my life (as an SA) easy! Using what was on the software baseline for my company and what was installed on each client and server system, I would then create preset firewall rules allowing only those applications to contact the internet. Anything else would be denied. I guess if you really don't care what your users are doing on their systems, then yeah, I would turn the firewalls off. If you properly configure a firewall about 90% of the "ignorant" or intentional actions that users make on a daily basis on your network can be stopped locally by policy.
lnicula: For a home user environment, it could be useful though if you don't use a router with a firewall (but most users do that already)
True, but even with a router I think it is highly recommended to use them still. Most consumer routers, unless you want to do a lot of pre-configuration in them ahead of time, blocking outbound connections per application or by process basis is difficult.
Blink allows you to fine tune a system's setup, so what you said really surprised me from being a SA myself. :)