Sophos Firewalls Rock
What do you like best about the product?
The Sophos firewalls are are full of features to protect the corporate network. Everything from IPS, to Reverse Proxy Services, to SSL VPN, and more. You can even do deep packet and application aware scanning and control.
What do you dislike about the product?
When purchasing, there is a kind of black magic to choosing the right hardware level. The firewall must be sized just just depending on how much bandwidth you have and how many services you want to turn on.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Full integrated security management for the corporate network. The firewall will integrate with the Sophos antivirus and antiransomware software give you a wholistic approach to network security.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Dont skimp when sizing the hardware. The more you spend today, the better the solution will fit for the duration of its life.
Sophos UTM
What do you like best about the product?
XG units are easy to manage thanks to their cloud console and have very powerful features. The "security heartbeat" that syncs endpoint antivirus/antimalware/anticrypto with the firewall is a no brainer. Combined with the ability to manage FDE and see which users pose the highest risk based on behavior has made the entire stack invaluable to our clients.
What do you dislike about the product?
SG units are solid but take too many steps to create and apply new policies. Some of the documentation is not entirely clear at first, but they seem to be improving it. Support can be hit or miss, depends on who picks up the phone. We've never had a problem not fixed before we ended the conversation, but sometimes the call went longer than it should have.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The ability to manage all of our clients in one dashboard has greatly streamlined our processes, saving us time and leading to faster service times.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
XG units are the way to go. We always recommend one model up from what the current client needs are to allow for growth and new features.
Sophos is easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to navigate GUI interface. ssl vpn is rock solid.
What do you dislike about the product?
WAF function has tripped me up before, causing issues.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Firewall, vpn, dynamic routing, threat detection.
Excellent Protection and support
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use
On demand updates
Excellent support
What do you dislike about the product?
I have absolutely no dislikes, other than maybe server update times
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
End to end protection and support
Easy to use, keeps computers safe
What do you like best about the product?
I like how quickly it scans my computer and shows me and shows me a detailed log of suspicious activity detected.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing I particularly dislike.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sophos is provided to all University of Washington staff and students free of cost. The main benefit is that it keeps my desktop and labtops virus free.
Easy to sell security
What do you like best about the product?
Devices are easy to switch out and copy over confit files when we have issues.
What do you dislike about the product?
Our techs find the Sophos support not as helpful as they would kike
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We lease these to our clients aspect of an MSP offering. This helps us manage risk.
Amazing firewall
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use and how simple setting up everything is. How much simple customization you can do. The complete and active log that you can just watch if something is getting blocked its pretty simple to track down.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is honestly nothing I don't like about this software. I will say that when you first start using it however
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Being able to fully work with customization of the computer/user level and how much of what they see on the internet. Also blocking ads from the firewall level is really nice.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Don't hesitate it's a really great firewall.
Really good product
I'm really not sure why this product is getting so much negative reviews. Here's my 2 cents:
1. This is probably the only device that can give you VPN + MFA (a Sophos mobile app soft token) right out of the box. Other big name network security devices usually require you to integrate with another service like Okta or add another server like a RADIUS server.
2. Has multiple Site to Site VPN and Remote Access VPN protocols builtin.
3. Can directly dump its log to CloudWatch logs, other network devices require you to add another syslog server to do the same thing
4. Has great IPS, IDS, Firewall functionalities, it is actually difficult to outgrow this device's capability.
5. Sophos charges $.1/hr for t2.small. You have to pay multiple of that price to get equivalent features from large vendors. And you would have to pay $$$$ to hire a competent network engineer to duplicate Sophos features on a vanilla linux box.
6. I've called Sophos Technical Support @ 1 888 767 4679 for difficult problems, such as configuring Sophos in a complicated VPC setup, ask them to explain vague documentations, work some obscure features, etc. Their support has been patient, staying on the phone for hours to diagnose the problems. And the support is getting a lot more AWS knowledgable over the past 2 years I've been using Sophos. So good job Sophos!
I've deployed and have seen deployed 10s of Sophos in a variety of projects for different tasks, remote access VPN, site to site VPN, NAT-T, WAF, packet inspection, firewalls etc. This little device has been solid.
Great device to protect your network from intrusion
What do you like best about the product?
I would say that I like the easy to use interface the best
What do you dislike about the product?
Some features are hidden and difficult to find.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The Sophos is a true unified threats management device that works great for point of sale networks to maintain PCI compliance.
Sophos UTM
What do you like best about the product?
Objects can be created and re-named on the fly. Firewall rules and policies are very easy to configure. The live log feature is very easy to navigate and see what is being blocked where.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish that the interface would not time out and have issues when first logging into the web interface.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We solved the problems of other firewall vendors going end of life with no replacements. The benefits of Sophos was the ease of use with a very responsive web interface.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The web interface takes a little bit of getting used to, but once you have learned how to get around, it makes a lot of sense and can be very easy to configure.
