Sophos UTM 9 Standalone or HA (BYOL)
Sophos | 9.716Linux/Unix, Other 9.715 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Hit and miss
What do you like best about the product?
I guess the amount of features we've seen with Sophos.
What do you dislike about the product?
Everything else.
We have to continually do Sophos remediations, scouring through dump logs and registry keys to fix host devices that break while using Sophos.
We have to continually do Sophos remediations, scouring through dump logs and registry keys to fix host devices that break while using Sophos.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Protection for users
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Sophos UTM - My Gatekeeper
What do you like best about the product?
Our Sophos SG230 has provided as much bang for the buck as we could get when it comes to protecting and administering our network security. It has all of the baseline firewall functionality in the definitions and rules that are either automatically set up or added by the user. I love the additional security I see as it blocks traffic to known bad actors using the Sophos database which though not as extensive as Cisco's is still quite substantial. I've seen this thing alert and block the wrong thing enough times to know I don't want to live with anything less and am seriously considering an XG230 in the near term. It also does a great job with the Sophos Wireless Access points.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is complicated at times and you have to manually perform firmware updates. I would love to see that scheduled from the dashboard. I would love to see more granularity on the monitoring and reporting of traffic.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Before Sophos we had an infection that would have been stopped by the Sophos SG230. The current situation is so bad it's depressing. The network is under constant attack and probing for absolutely the worst of reasons. There is an army arrayed against us and products such as the Sophos UTM are our early warning system, first line of defense and counter-intelligence agency.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Look at Sophos and keep in mind the companion products such as endpoint protection, WAPs, the variety of VPN flavors.
Helpful for email filtering
What do you like best about the product?
We like that it filters out spam emails and emails from people that we do not know.
What do you dislike about the product?
Do not like that sometimes I don't get emails fro multiple days that would've been helpful to get earlier.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Spam/many emails
Sophos UTM
What do you like best about the product?
Absolutely the best security software in the business with the VERY best customer service.
These folks go above and beyond to help you out of a jam or fix issues with security whether you are new and have viruses and holes in your security or if its just something simple they are the best of the best for security
What do you dislike about the product?
Absolute do not dislike anything about
Sophos I was actually the one who recommended them from prior experience with them at my home. I had called them randomly with a problem with my home computer and they walked me through fixing it without me ever being a member or having their software.
Thjat is impressive!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Well obviously security. There are multiple properties that we communicate with online and we had a lot of issues with hacking and it was getting really bad. Once this was in place life as a manager was much easier.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Do not hesitate to get this for your company they are the best in the business and I would recommend them to anyone who is looking for security services.
Great mechanism for IPsec
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use and overall security mechanism
What do you dislike about the product?
Only 30 days trial period. Can be a bit more
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Internet security
Great threat management
What do you like best about the product?
simplicity and effectiveness, great filtering
What do you dislike about the product?
potentially beatable by motivated people
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
filtering, general security and threat protection
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Have experience with other threat management solutions for an understanding of the breadth of this one
A great tool for enterprise security
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use but also the capabilities to get granular with the setup. Administration is very clear cut as well.
What do you dislike about the product?
Its on the high end on price. The original product was a little clunky but has been much more streamlined since using the sophos cloud to manage utm.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Prevention of ransomware or other malware activities.
Great Product
We compare many WAFs that are available in AWS for our clients, and so far Sophos is the only product we've seen that is truly fit for cloud. It leverages the AWS services to provide a clean and elegant solution to autoscale Sophos instances in a highly available envrionment. We've deployed it in many client environments and have always seen a successful turn-out. It also provides a great solution to the AWS limitation of transitive routing to force outbound traffic to flow through the Sophos for inspection before reaching the Internet. Many of our clients have this requirement and so far Sophos is the only product in the market that provides an active/active solution to implementing GRE tunnels that push traffic across VPCs, through the Sophos, and out to the Internet. Additionally, their support team has been very helpful and are very responsive. They spend the time explaining their product and help you as you progress through every step of design, deployment, and implementation in your AWS environment.
Sophos UTM is like a relics of the past that needs to be conducted in the present
What do you like best about the product?
Our Sophos UTM still does what it supposed to do, it protect correctly our business network against attacks from the internet.
What do you dislike about the product?
Well, unfortunately I have more thing that I dislike that things that I like about my Sophos UTM. We first dislike that the setup and operation of the UTM is a real P.I.T.A. The management interface is also like a relics from the past and we found that there's many settings in different menus that interact all together or that are conflict together. For example some settings from the "Application Controls" feature are become in conflict with "Network Protection" (basic firewall) settings. Yes of course after a while you figure out how conflicts happen, but in other products that are more modern, the manufacturer will have a better consistency between settings menus. When we first put the brand new UTM in place, we had some bad times figuring out why things are not working properly. We also deplore the lack of several modern feature who are still unsupported by Sophos UTM even in 2017 like IKEv2 ipsec... once again, it's like of Sophos UTM have several years of backlog in R&D over other manufacturers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Well, we surely improved overall security a lot and we also gained a lot more granularity over the restriction we wanted to put in place for inside and outside the company.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Sophos is supposed to release a completely new generation of appliances in 2018, so after trying it out we will see if Sophos is still in the right direction or if we will choose another appliance manufacturer.
Best UTM on the market
What do you like best about the product?
It's been around for a long time and has a huge community support base
What do you dislike about the product?
The inability to manage it from Central.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Compliance
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Do the UTM not the XG.
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