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Sophos Cloud Firewall (BYOL)

Sophos | 20.0 MR2

Linux/Unix, Other 20.0 MR2 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

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    Computer & Network Security

Best Protection in simple way

  • December 23, 2021
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Protect from all the internal and external attack.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sophos doesn't support active multiple vpn.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sophos is helping by filtering the unproductive website while helps in bandwidth consume


    OLUWATOBI ADETUNJI A.

XG firewall - AI Powered Firewall for your Organization Security

  • December 14, 2021
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Risk management and help to reduce the risk of the organization being hit by a cyber incident from threat actors and stay ahead of emerging threats.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nil. Sophos XG firewall has helped analyze logs for proactive monitoring. I will do well to come back and update if anything chnages.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Firewall, Ransomeware Attack, Log Monitoring, VPN Solution, Email Security, Routing to mention just a few


    Alain D.

Sophos is a very professional Firewall that you can rely on for either small or big companies.

  • December 09, 2021
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Sophos XG Firewall simplifies your work, and at the same time, lets you do whatever you might think of concerning Firewall.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only disadvantage I can see in Sophos is that it is slightly slower than other similar software. But that is because it is far more detailed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As an ICT Supervisor in my company, Sophos helps me give specific permissions to our staff, each depending on his duties.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Sophos XG Firewall is the best firewall nowadays and incomparable to other software; very professional and user-friendly.


    Mike A.

Sophos XG firewalls

  • October 28, 2021
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Easy to manager, works well with Sophos wireless access points
What do you dislike about the product?
Long reboot time, rack ears are separate
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Network security for branches


    Brahmam V.

best mid range firewall

  • October 14, 2021
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
1. Initial configuration doesn't require many technical requirements; we can configure it quickly.
2. Compact size and less weight.
3. when it comes to performance, even in heavy traffic, it works well and is normal.
4. Configuration wizard for configuring DNAT rule, which guides how to configure port forwarding.
5. Supports IPsec connection with multiple vendor firewalls.
What do you dislike about the product?
1. CLI is not that much useful.
2. No option to import bulk address objects.
3. firewall default rule 0 block rule matches to allowed traffic, even though allow rule written.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1. Deployed Sophos on one of the branch offices and configured the site-to-site VPN to the primary office for providing internal server access.
2. Using it as NetFlow and Syslog exporter to analyze the logs from the LAN for any threats.
3. Configured captive portal access for the guest users to provide limited access.
4. Using Sophos as the central DHCP server and providing the DHCP options for the access points and the other devices
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Best recommended for small and medium business organizations, and Sophos is very easy to manage.


    Milind J.

Best Next generation firewall for your business at affordable price

  • October 09, 2021
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
I most like its interface, which is very easy to use and understand compared to other firewalls. It is next-generation firewall with the best security features. It ensures the latest threat protection along with applications, web, and content control.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have not faced any single issue with XG firewall yet, so no point to dislike it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1) It helped us to manage and control web traffic in our organization.
2) It ensures advanced threat protection
3) We able to configure content-based web control for our organization.
4) It helped us to protect our emails from spam or phishing attack.
5) It's next-generation technology helped us to optimise internet uses for our organization.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Best next generation firewall


    Satyam I.

Reliable and secured firewall from sophos

  • September 23, 2021
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
1) it is reliable and secured firewall from sophos.
2) it's IPsec features helped us to link our branches and offices without MPLS. Which saved our lot of money.
3) it's user friendly interface helps to understand and configure firewall faster.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't have any point to dislike sophos firewall.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1) cost effective solution compared to others.
2) it's frequent updates secures organization data from latest threat.
3) various features like load balancing, IPsec, website access restrictions help us to manage organization network efficiently.
4) we able to set bandwidth quota and speed user or device wise using firewall rule.
5) it helped to save money by using IPsec feature instead of MPLS.
6) we can utilise primary and backup line fully with its load balancing feature.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Protect your organization data with reliable and secured firewall


    MARNI S.

Advanced protection

  • September 22, 2021
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
1. The initial box configuration is very simple; even a person with some technical knowledge can configure this.
2. Simple and user-friendly web dashboard.
3. Log viewer is very responsive and has many filtering options for sorting packets.
4. Easy to know which user is accessing what application and website.
5. SSL VPN can be configured with fewer steps.
6. Throughput is decent even after applying all security profiles and inspections.
What do you dislike about the product?
1. Technical support is not that much responsive.
2. When device gets heat or device temperature is high, firewall will not respond properly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1. Blocking unwanted traffic for users on LAN.
2. Accessing internal server from outside internet by configuring DNAT on Sophos.
3. Taking reports of the user data consumption.
4. Protecting servers on DMZ from outside attacks like brute force and port scannings.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It has a good dashboard, and options are user-friendly; it is suitable for those who are less experienced with firewalls.


    Vinayak K.

One of the best network security appliance for your organization

  • September 10, 2021
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
1) I most like it's load balancing feature. We can configure load balancing instead of primary or secondary gateway which helps to utilise both primary and secondary links simultenously.
2) quick load transfer to secondary if primary goes down.
3) we can manage source device traffic easily with the help of various firewall rule.
4) mac host features plays vital role in restricting traffic to specific device and users.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't see any point to dislike sophos xg firewall
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1) It assures latest threat protection.
2) we able to configure mac id level access to our network
3) its load balancing feature helped us to manage load on both active links and utilise them fully.
4) it's firewall rule feature helped us to manage traffic, web access, bandwidth etc. user and device wise.
5) easy to use and user friendly.
6) it's quick alert on email on link down help us to raise ticket with respective ISP.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Looking for secured and reliable network security appliance for your organisation go for it


    Arshad H.

Cost Effective next generation firewall for Small / Medium size organizations.

  • September 01, 2021
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Following are the most beneficial features for the Sophos XG firewall:
1. Nice interactive dashboard covering all the information on a single screen.
2. Reports and log monitoring to analyze traffic and threat mapping.
3. Features such as Web and application protection helps to make the network secure.
4. Sophos Central Synchronization helps to synchronize Sophos XG Firewall with all the endpoints and helps in the automatic device isolation in case if a device is infected.
What do you dislike about the product?
Device configuration needs to be more user-friendly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Following tasks has performed by Sophos XG Firewall:
1. Network and Web protection of all devices in the network.
2. Intrusion Prevention and Application Filtering.
3. Routing and VPN for office network.