Sophos UTM 9 Standalone or HA (BYOL)
Sophos | 9.714Linux/Unix, Other 9.7140000000000004 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Good overall product with some minor improvements to be made
For me this are the top features i like about the UTM;
-- It's relative light weight, so easy to run on some older hardware you have laying around. But I don't have any problems with newer more "enterprise" hardware as well.
-- A ton of functions (like a UTM should have). Everything from simple Firewall & NAT to Email (encryption) & advanced routing protocols
-- Easy and nice Web UI (speaking as a someone who normally skips products with a GUI), it contains all the information you need.
-- The Live log is just great!
-- The ability to "map" hosts, users, groups etc. is very handy. This way you just have to change your settings in one place in stead of reconfiguring everything where you use that particular host.
-- LDAP/AD integration is essential for enterprise usage, and works as expected.
-- Some minor inconsistency in the menus, but as i mentioned already, this is improving and not that big of a problem.
Have a good look at the different licensing options, they are based on the amount of active IP's so it's fairly easy to make your decision.
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Rolling out Sophos UTM in EC2
There are virtually no instructions on the Sophos or Amazon web sites, beyond the video <http://www.sophos.com/en-us/lp/aws.aspx>. There is no advice on how to size the UTM VM instance and how it interacts with internal interfaces (virtual network cards). This lack of clear documentation is a major stumbling block when attempting to deploy UTMs in EC2. Personally I wasted over twenty hours, and was almost on the point of giving up when I was finally able to get a UTM working in EC2. Despite the fact I have access to Premium Support from Sophos, they offered almost no support on how to size and deploy a UTM in EC2. The support from Amazon was very spotty. The Amazon technicians I dealt with had never used a soft UTM and did not understand how they work, so I spent a lot of time educating them about the Sophos architecture. All in all, the product is fine but the obstacles to deploying it in EC2 are very daunting. In summary, the lack of documentation could make the Sophos UTM almost useless in the Amazon cloud. If you are brave enough to attempt to use this product, make sure you have phone support from Amazon.
Best Value for Money IPS and VPN Solution
The Sophos UTM is a very straight forward, easy to use appliance that does exactly what you want, GOOD IPS (Snort based), Stable VPN with very good interchangeability to AWS and other vendors plus lot more UTM features - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Emind has chosen Sophos UTM for lot's of our deployments.
Talk to us: info@emind.co if you need more help.
Lahav Savir, Cloud Architect
Good solution for VPN
This is a fairly easy solution for AWS VPC connectivity, although I did have to update the firmware before being able to effectively establish a VPN IPSec connection.
The interface is well thought out and is quick to respond to input.
UTM in cloud for education
At work, I always use Sophos UTM solution in production. This UTM supports many standards and good for study.