Sophos - does it work?
What do you like best about the product?
From a security point of view, i do believe its one of the best in the market. It offers a secure way to encrypt your data and provide an audit way needed many times.
What do you dislike about the product?
Under certain situations, Sophos simply will not crypt the disk. For example, some bad sectors or even some other 'SW' bug makes some issues and we could think everything is encrypted and its not!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Security, Information Confidentiality and Auditability. Many of these goals are not implemented to have financial benefits but there are many other ways to get the value out of the tool.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Ensure you have all policies defined and do some periodic audits.
Sophos UTM
What do you like best about the product?
Full featured UTM that will handle most requirements of an SMB that requires remote access for employees, web content filtering, and email filtering. Easy to use interface.
What do you dislike about the product?
Support is sometimes lacking and takes awhile to answer even the most basic questions.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Keeping the network safe from viruses, malware, and spam. Allowing easy access via IPSec VPN for remote users. Visibility into the types and amount of traffic machines are accessing on the internet.
Experience with Sophos UTM
What do you like best about the product?
The web interface is very structure Nd well organized.
What do you dislike about the product?
All functions are disabled when the security subscriptions are expired.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Protecting internal networks
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Ease of administration.
Sophos UTM Review
What do you like best about the product?
Sophos UTM is a great appliance to have for an office environment.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing that I dislike. The ease of use for the appliance is great even for beginners.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sometimes it can be a little too secure.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
N/A
Sophos UTM Tool
What do you like best about the product?
It takeminimal ressources and works in the background
What do you dislike about the product?
So far happy with the features of the trial version
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Real time add and pop ups blocking and malware detection
Sophos UTM
What do you like best about the product?
Full protection small company network, strong security and make a wifi for guest separately.
What do you dislike about the product?
Best software, I like it, there is no any comment.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Free cost for home. Full protection small company network and home, make a guest network separately. Protect and monitoing the web access log.
Greatest Firewall/UTM Product I Have Ever Used
What do you like best about the product?
Simplicity. Interface is superb and the ability to quickly configure advanced routing, static routes, DNS, DHCP relays using object-based configurations just makes the unit so easy to use. I don't have time to work through Cisco router CLI, this Sophos UTM does the job of a router and more with the time to configured about 1/3 of the time required for other vendors. The logs are extremely clear to read through and identify issues if reported by end users. And let me not forget that the Up2Date firmware process is so easy, when you have to do firmware updates on other appliance types you immediately miss the convenience.
What do you dislike about the product?
POP3 Scanning requires Accounts, although it does scan POP3 messages, it is unclear how to configure it properly from the beginning. A bit too much research required to get POP3 scanning running smoothly
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Improved Performance for End-Users across the board. Simplified Security policies by Network, User, User Group, Time-Based Policy, Granular Categorisation and recategorisation.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you want to be able to deploy and managed reliable and secure appliance, the Sophos UTM running UTM9.x is the right choice. The ability to centrally manage and monitor all appliances from a Sophos UTM manager with no addiitonal licensing is invaluable. The TotalProtect(FullGuard) license/subscription includes warranty for the hardware, and the High Availability is extremely effective and easy to support.
We stop using this product, after put it on production for 2 weeks
The IPS feature seem not working, and after we config ssl vpn on it according to the manual. the whole office cannot access to all infrastructure instances.
We try to roll-back the configuration that we have back-up, things still not work.
So we have to remove it.
Response:
Hi Phoenixict,
We are committed to helping you have a great user experience. We can help you configure IPS and SSL VPN, as well as walk you through how to perform a rollback. Please send us email at aws.marketplace@sophos.com and we will coordinate a time to help you.
Thanks Sophos.
Sophos UTM Review
What do you like best about the product?
The setup was smooth and easy, the GUI is simple and has all the features and tools you need. Sophos's key points are the excellent security and threat management which is essential for any company.
What do you dislike about the product?
Can't really say anything negative about this product other than the price is a bit too high.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This solution has secured and protected our business for over 2 years now. Very easy to manage, requires little training to get familiar. Would buy it again.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would definitely recommend you check out this solution for your business. Setup is easier than Sonicwall and Cisco, and managing Sophos is simply a breeze. Do yourself a favor and go check their website.
OK to poor depending on what capabilities you are looking for
The product has lots of issues which are not apparent if you only going to use it in a non-demanding environment and might also not be apparent in the actual appliance version. In the AWS environment though it needs lots of work which Sophos doesn't seem eager to do anytime soon in fact in some forums it looks like it has taken Sophos over 5 years to implement some changes. I had high hopes for the product when I first started using it but as I have used more and more it seems that Sophos management is not willing to pay attention to the details nor is willing to fully test the product before declaring it ready for production.
Response:
Reply from Byron Watson at Sophos 08/24/2016
Hi secgeek,
Thanks for the feedback. We’d love to chat with you to understand where we can improve, and if we can help you out. Our UTM with support for Auto Scaling may be a better fit for your environment, as it offers more integration with AWS. Your feedback is very important to us, as is the feedback of all of our customers. Would you please reach out to us at aws.marketplace@sophos.com. Look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Byron Watson, Sophos SA
