Sophos UTM 9 Standalone or HA (PAYG)
Sophos | 9.715Linux/Unix, Other 9.715 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Sophos XG best Gateway
What do you like best about the product?
Sophos XG is easy to deploy, configure and manage. The features like web filter, Application filter, Email Protection, Server protection are great in their purpose.
What do you dislike about the product?
Customer support needs to be improved as sometimes it takes lots of time to connect. Licencing cost should be reviewed for small organizations. Some features need the training to configure.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Configured remote VPN on Sophos XG firewall which helps me to connect the users from other locations. I can easily configure the web filter and application filter to filter unproductive traffic. Different types of reporting give an easy analysis of network traffic.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is the best firewall with all the advanced features. Highly recommended for any organization
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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.
Great all around UTM
What do you like best about the product?
Very flexible, you have great control over how your traffic flows.
What do you dislike about the product?
Part of the GUI (Web filter Profiles) can be a bit cumbersome.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Needed many layers of protection but did not have the staff to manage them independently.
A modesty powerful firewall solution
What do you like best about the product?
Many features for endpoint and network security
What do you dislike about the product?
The support isn't the greatest
Troubleshooting is difficult as some basic parameters operations are invisible in the troubleshooting GUI sections
Troubleshooting is difficult as some basic parameters operations are invisible in the troubleshooting GUI sections
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Securing user end points, network and internal systems
SOPHOS UTM meant for SMB with plug and Play Features... When It's come to SSL traffic inspection
What do you like best about the product?
SOPHOS use its own technology for Gateway A/V and for IDS.. unlike other OEMs..they use share database.. with each other..
What do you dislike about the product?
Not have Full DLP features like other OEMs..some times Firmware issue alos persist with SOPHOS.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were looking for solution for Multiple branch secure connectivity..where SOPHOS RED help us.. with quite competitive budget.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
For SMB I will recommend to go with SOPHOS.
Sophos was a really tough product for us to use in an enterprise environment.
What do you like best about the product?
It was pretty easy to deploy with the basic settings, but configuring was a pain.
What do you dislike about the product?
It didnt stop most things out of the box. There was all types of configuration necessary to catch it all
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were trying to cut down on malware and malicious software being installed. We really didnt have a clue until we turned Microsoft ATP on. All the alerts started coming through, and they were all missed by Sophos.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Consider another product. This was really bad for our company, especially with the SMB1 vulnerability.
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
Sophos UTM Review
What do you like best about the product?
Network protection
Wireless protection
web protection
What do you dislike about the product?
Cost
No support for earlier versions
Complicated system
No support for earlier versions
Complicated system
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Securing assets in the data centers
Sophos UTM
What do you like best about the product?
Lots of data available to change, lots of things to change and monitor
What do you dislike about the product?
Support hard to reach sometimes, takes time to get back to you
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Firewall and protection
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Get third party support if possible
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.
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