Is it normal to make outbound connections during boot? Doesn't that circumvent a firewall? That seems like something a security team evaluating whether they want this software on their network might care about during an eval period.. right?
Unfortunately "security" folk these days are box ticking fuckwits and this product brief ticked all the boxes. They do not understand any more traditional methodologies other than "install these magic beans and action the reports".
Invest in better software and network architecture and DR strategy instead.