My clients use Sophos XG for deploying firewalls at corporate office and branch offices. The branches connect via site-to-site VPN, allowing outbound traffic from the central location.
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SECURITY MADE SIMPLE
What do you like best about the product?
1. The sophos firewall ease of use
2. The sophos firewall extensive all in one box features
3. Syncronized security with endpoints
4. SDWAN central orchestration.
2. The sophos firewall extensive all in one box features
3. Syncronized security with endpoints
4. SDWAN central orchestration.
What do you dislike about the product?
1. RMA process takes time and sometimes affects productivity
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Network visibility is the biggest problem solved by sophos as it gives us visibility into use traffic in the network.
Sophos Firewall very
What do you like best about the product?
Sophos XGS Series firewalls combine the best of two worlds: the flexibility of a high-performance, multi-core CPU for deep-packet inspection, plus the performance benefits of a dedicated Xstream Flow Processor for intelligent application acceleration
What do you dislike about the product?
Reports should have more deatils.
SSL VPN needs to be upto industry standard.
SSL VPN needs to be upto industry standard.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
connectivity between branches.
security,
WIFI
security,
WIFI
Provides network visibility and reporting capabilities, constantly improving over time
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The firewall provides network visibility and reporting capabilities, constantly improving over time. It can be integrated with the cloud console, allowing centralized management of multiple firewalls. integration with endpoint security products ensures seamless traffic flow and rule enforcement, even when endpoints are not directly connected to the firewall.
What needs improvement?
I've had experience with Sophos XG's threat intelligence features, and they provide good coverage, although I wouldn't say they're the best in the industry. The sandbox feature is available with top-tier subscriptions, allowing you to test content in a cloud sandbox.
One improvement I'd suggest for Sophos XG is to make certain functionalities, like CR functionality, part of the default firewalling rather than exclusive to premium subscriptions. Enhancing DLP capabilities at the gateway level could significantly boost security for organizations.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Sophos XG for the past 10 years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
As for stability, I'd give it a high score, maybe a nine, because it keeps running without much downtime.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I'd rate them an eight for stablity It's not to say they're perfect, but generally, it's pretty good I'd recommend it for companies of all sizes.
How was the initial setup?
Integrating Sophos XG into existing infrastructure was quite easy and straightforward. There were hardly any complexities involved in the process.you can use both options - cloud-based or hardware-based firewalls. When I mention hybrid, it means having both options available. While cloud-based firewalls offer convenience, they can be more expensive compared to hardware ones. Although I haven't personally worked with the cloud version, it seems similar in appearance but may have different features. Cloud-based firewalls may seem like an overkill in terms of price, especially when considering the cost of operation over time. They become more beneficial when additional security layers like zero trust, DLP, or secure web gateway functionalities are added. This expands security beyond physical location constraints, making it accessible from anywhere.
What other advice do I have?
I'd rate Sophos XG an 8. It's my first preference and confidently recommend it to other users.
It was nice experience as Sophos.
What do you like best about the product?
I liked the fact that it has has good features.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing as such to dislike just the part of email can be done properly
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helped me a lot in online traffic control and also we can scan every thing.
I recommend sophos for Education
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use, product features aligned with our requirements, helps in safeguarding of students, URL filtering
Synchronisation with XDR.
Synchronisation with XDR.
What do you dislike about the product?
Customer support is not great. Youtube restrictions are great however, unable to create custom policies for users.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sophos Firewall ensures our stakeholders are in a safer environment. Its very convenient to creat policies, and web and application filter rules.
Smartest firewall in the market
What do you like best about the product?
As a cybersecurity expert I can say that the best thing about Sophos is that it can be controlled using a single console. It reduces the effort of the user as it can be easily installed or integrated. Continuous scanning of the network is an another great thing about the firewall. My firewall is continuously on for 24 X 7 and with this much of use it works fine without heating much. In YouTube videos I saw good customer support so no need to worry for customer support.
What do you dislike about the product?
Their is nothing that i can dislike. But if the cost can be reduced then it will be the best in price.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am using it in my college campus and inorder to protect the college intranet i have to use Sophos earlier I was using fortinet firewall but it was not fulfilling my needs. Earlier my college network was getting lots of unusual traffic now after installing this firewall it is blocking all the suspicious traffic in my network.
An intuitive product that easy to manage
What do you like best about the product?
Its intuitive and relatively easy to use.
Its granularity allows for configuration to suit what is required.
Reliable
Its granularity allows for configuration to suit what is required.
Reliable
What do you dislike about the product?
Not a lot. Perhaps relies a bit on its 'community' but that isnt unusual these days.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Gives us security of access to the 'cloud' but alos security of access across our internal networks.
Acts as a great Wireless Controller for its APs
Acts as a great Wireless Controller for its APs
Serves as a good firewall option with an easy setup phase
What is our primary use case?
I use Sophos XG in my company as a firewall for my company's network. The product is used to manage the internet access received through routers for our company's network.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that the routing functionality provided by the product is very easy for our company to use in our network since it provides for the movement of packets from one device to the other devices in our network, making it an area which works really fine for us.
What needs improvement?
I want an increase in the ability of the product to block and delete the websites and applications that don't work fine for our company. The tool ends up blocking another website that I need when I only want it to block a particular website or application. I can't use the product's application control feature, making it a disadvantage of the solution where improvements are required.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Sophos XG since around 2019, making it five years. I use Sophos Firewall Home Edition.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is a very stable solution. In my company, we have had a reason to restart the product for a long time since the services offered by the tool have been fine enough for our organization.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The product was installed in our company in 2019 when we had around 15 employees. I don't see any issues with the product, considering the increase in the number of devices over the years in our company.
How are customer service and support?
Sophos Firewall Home Edition doesn't provide technical support.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Sometimes, my company needs to rely on pfSense to deal with the area of backup. My company prefers pfSense to save data.
How was the initial setup?
The product's initial setup phase is very easy.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I use Sophos Firewall Home Edition, which is available for free.
What other advice do I have?
I haven't used the VPN capabilities provided by the product since my company already has a VPN-based solution in our environment.
The application control feature of the product is very good. My company doesn't use the application control feature for now since there was an increase in the blocking and deletion of applications when it was used.
The integration of the product into our company's infrastructure did not have any impact on our network performance. In general, the product is a bit buggy when it comes to the area of its impact on network performance.
I recommend the product to those who plan to use it.
I rate the overall tool an eight out of ten.
User friendly and easy to deploy
What do you like best about the product?
Vpn connectivity for remote employees is one of the best and unique feature
What do you dislike about the product?
Limitation in reporting and customisation
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As its and NGFW the helps in application control as welll with web filtering which provides a extra layer of security in network layer
review of Sophos Firewall
What do you like best about the product?
to provide cybersecurity service with 24/7 hour.
What do you dislike about the product?
In certain deployment scenarios or with extensive security features enabled, Sophos Firewall may require significant hardware resources, which could be a concern for organizations with budget constraints or older hardware.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
it is provide Sophos Chatbot to solve your future problems and inspecting network traffic and enforcing security policies.
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