Sophos Cloud UTM 9 (Auto Scaling PAYG)
Sophos | 9.718Linux/Unix, Other 9.717 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Best secure way
What do you like best about the product?
Ultimate edition for security to safe from any illegal activity.
What do you dislike about the product?
Neither any of them to dislike. Login process is different but all are 👍
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Cyber security is important to us for data security.
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Don't even know it's there
What do you like best about the product?
Very unintrusive as a user, easy to install once instructions were provided. Provides security benefits every day without needing input by me.
What do you dislike about the product?
It can sometimes be challenging to interact with manually.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Security on laptop assets.
Solid Firewall/UTM Plattform
What do you like best about the product?
- Ease of use
- Easy to troubleshoot
- Great logging
- Fast and responsive
- No need for CLI/Console access
- Easy to troubleshoot
- Great logging
- Fast and responsive
- No need for CLI/Console access
What do you dislike about the product?
- Discontinued / End of life
- No more functional updates
- No more functional updates
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Protect businesses from internal and external threats, very fast to implement and works as a hardware appliance as well as on many hypervisors.
Regular use of the software in my job in a European software company
What do you like best about the product?
I use it in my software company.
It is one of the best in a wide range of products. Never disappointed and never a problem.
It is one of the best in a wide range of products. Never disappointed and never a problem.
What do you dislike about the product?
Many blockades for security reasons
Sometimes you have to ask IT to unblock.
Lots of security to connect
Sometimes you have to ask IT to unblock.
Lots of security to connect
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Prevents hacking and other external problems
Easy to use with wonderful security
What do you like best about the product?
User based policy are quite good..reporting part is very detailed and useful. Performace is awesome for mid level organization.. Administration is quite easy.
What do you dislike about the product?
Gui speed is bit slow, other than this all seems good.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am controlling traffice to and from internet and having visibility on usage.
Sophos UTM
What do you like best about the product?
Its ease of functionality for configuring interfaces, network definitions, service definitions, acls or firewall rules, VPN users, and log monitoring.
What do you dislike about the product?
It does not allow an administrator to restrict access to just certain sections of the Sophos UTM box.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is an excellent VPN box for strict AES encryption. It is very easy to manage and monitor system logs.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Sophos needs to make user admin more restrictive for security purposes.
End to end protection
What do you like best about the product?
You don’t need to worry about anything, one box solution
What do you dislike about the product?
Never had any issues and so far so good
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Peace of mind with regards to virus/hacking protection
Great UTM at a great price
What do you like best about the product?
It is pretty much set it and forget it. It does everything we need and there is little I need to tweak once its running.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the reports are still not very non-it friendly. Went to a different app for Web reporting for managers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Needed something that would just do its job and not be a pain to manage. this does it.
Best Firewall Solution On The Market
What do you like best about the product?
I have started using Sophos UTM when it was still known as Astaro. While I have been looking at other products to follow new innovations, I consistently found that Sophos delivered the best features in its category. It is fairly easy to setup and it just works. I cannot say the same for many other solutions I have evaluated over the years.
What do you dislike about the product?
For the past few years, Sophos has been telling us that we will soon be able to migrate to their new solution Sophos XG. Sadly, the new solution is behind on features and I have yet to see the promised migration tool. That said, I can see that Sophos XG is a forward looking solution. I just wish that development would move along a little quicker. Why am I talking about Sophos XG here? Well, Sophos has pretty much stopped development on Sophos UTM and so we are only getting fixes and maintenance patches at the moment.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It works well protecting my company's assets in the data center. At the same time, we can safely connect our office to work with our SAP servers in the data center.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are running a smaller company like me and are looking for reliable features for your money, you should give Sophos UTM a try. It worked extremely well for us and it allows us to safely connect our office to our SAP servers in the data center.
It has a single pane of glass which allows me to manage all my VPCs from a single instance, managing all my firewalls from one place
Every single Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) has Sophos in front of it. I also use it for Outbound Gateways in my WorkSpaces environment.
How has it helped my organization?
Our company trusts Sophos without even seeing it, as it provides us comfortability while allowing for flexibility.
What is most valuable?
Its scaling capability.
Sophos has a single pane of glass which allows me to manage all my VPCs from a single instance, managing all my firewall from one place, which is huge for me. When you have multiple VPCs and multiple accounts, it becomes too cumbersome to use a product that you have to look at individually. With Sophos, I can look at one place and see everything: my logs, filters, firewall rules, etc.
What needs improvement?
I would like them to move from the Classic Load Balancer to the Network Load Balancer. This would make it easier to do certain things with Amazon. They are able to do some enhancements with Network Load Balancer that they are unable to do with Classic Load Balancer.
For how long have I used the solution?
More than five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I have never had a stability issue with Sophos. It self-heals.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I have not run into a scalability issue since it is scalable past my license.
How is customer service and technical support?
I have had great technical support. The only issues that I have experienced with technical support are when I get a Tier 1 support person who knows about the on-premise product, not the AWS side of the product.
What about the implementation team?
The implementation and configuration through AWS is easy. They have cloud configuration templates, which are easy to deploy.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
We originally purchased the solution through the AWS Marketplace. I started my proof of concept doing pay-as-you-go, then moved to a VAR for a 'Bring Your Own Licence' (BYOL) licensing model. The BYOL license still requires you to accept the terms of the AWS Marketplace to deploy.
It is easy to purchase through the AWS Marketplace. In addition, if you have a budget for the AWS Marketplace, then your purchases will appear on your regular Amazon bill, which makes things even easier.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I went and looked at Check Point eight years ago, because back then, I loved Check Point. They also weren't many solutions like this back then. AWS Marketplace did not even exist eight years ago!
After comparing Check Point and Sophos pricing, I questioned whether the decimal for Sophos was in the wrong spot. Sophos's competitors were so much higher in price.
Originally, cost sold me because Check Point and Sophos had the same features. Now, Sophos has surpassed Check Point's features.
What other advice do I have?
If you haven't tried it, do so.
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