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Leader in firewall
Piece of Junk
Not an easy deployment and pretty much ZERO support. My company would have made the investment in Sophos if they could adequately support their offering. But i guess Sophos isn't interested in that!
Response:
Reply from Rich Vorwaller at Sophos 08/24/2016
Hi clinux,
We are definitely interested in supporting you on AWS, or at least hearing how we can improve our products for you and other customers. Please email us at aws.marketplace@sophos.com. We can set up a time to discuss your experience, determine a way to resolve your issues, and answer any questions you may have.
Thanks,
Rich Vorwaller, Senior PM
Is a robust and easy to use administrative plataform to our network
External ELB and TLS Does Not Work - Support is a Joke
I want to give this product a good review but cannot. Setup was relatively easy but if you require external AWS ELB (Elastic Load Balancing) AND TLS (i.e. no TLS termination) then this product does not appear to work.
But more than the TLS issue, after a week of going back and forth with email based Sophos support that don't appear to read or understand English AND don't call when they say they will call - I have given up.
Prompt and accurate support is important for any product that will be supporting your production systems and from my experience, Sophos has failed miserably in this area.
Excellent all in all Security Virtual Appliance
Easy to use, Fast curve learning, works great on minimal core instance, tons of features.
I highly recommend this product.
Good overall product with some minor improvements to be made
For me this are the top features i like about the UTM;
-- It's relative light weight, so easy to run on some older hardware you have laying around. But I don't have any problems with newer more "enterprise" hardware as well.
-- A ton of functions (like a UTM should have). Everything from simple Firewall & NAT to Email (encryption) & advanced routing protocols
-- Easy and nice Web UI (speaking as a someone who normally skips products with a GUI), it contains all the information you need.
-- The Live log is just great!
-- The ability to "map" hosts, users, groups etc. is very handy. This way you just have to change your settings in one place in stead of reconfiguring everything where you use that particular host.
-- LDAP/AD integration is essential for enterprise usage, and works as expected.
-- Some minor inconsistency in the menus, but as i mentioned already, this is improving and not that big of a problem.
Have a good look at the different licensing options, they are based on the amount of active IP's so it's fairly easy to make your decision.
Home:
It's FREE :)
Multi-purspose and sometimes overcomplicated product.
We used this product during our evaluation of software for client's VPNs.
It works well, but:
* configuration from my point of view is over-complicated
* documentation is sometimes confusing
* technical support is not very responsive
I would use this software only if I wouldn't have another choice.
very easy
There are a lot of functions related to security, its functions can be controlled from the WEB is a good. We are going to try using a time when there is a requirement of the customer.
straightforward, works
Good documentation
Easy finding of objects
Good base (redhat derivative, uses rpm's from package management, can use tcpdump via ssh!)
Simple openvpn setup
Easy to map elastic ip's to aliases - great reverse proxy (Passes outlook anywhere =)) and NAT
I was basically suprised at how nice it was =), well done sophos!
SOPHOS security review
Hi friends, I did try SOPHOS during trial period. My short feedback is - looks like I'll use it on the regular scheme - really great product! There is all what I need and nothing nonsense.