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Sophos Cloud Firewall (BYOL)

Sophos | 20.0 MR2

Linux/Unix, Other 20.0 MR2 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

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    Retail

Sophos Firewall is truly exceptional

  • February 27, 2024
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
I liked the ease of administration, the UI is user friendly and the central management is exceptional to carry day to day admin tasks. Sophos Firewall comes with very comprehensive features from connectivity to security.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is really nothing that I dislike about Sophos Firewall. But if I may request for the feature I would be looking at Virtual instances. I however know it is in their roadmap.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Secure Connectivity by leveraging SD-WAN & VPN Orchestration feature.
Security by using Dual-AV, ATP & zero-day protection optimize the overall security posture of our cybersecurity strategry at the network gateway.


    Monish A.

User friendly and easy to deploy

  • February 26, 2024
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Vpn connectivity for remote employees is one of the best and unique feature
What do you dislike about the product?
Limitation in reporting and customisation
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As its and NGFW the helps in application control as welll with web filtering which provides a extra layer of security in network layer


    Rahul B.

Sophos Firewall with Xstream Protection capabilties

  • February 25, 2024
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
We havee been using this product from quite a while now, and based our user experiance this is the most simplest of products to use. Smooth deployment/implementation experiance and robust feature set as per our network needs. Technical Support is much responsive as compared to various vendors and is quite effective. ZTNA integration launched recently is also an amazing feature to have.
What do you dislike about the product?
We coluld have 3rd party integration for threat feeds which is missing as of now in the product.
Alos the reports need to be more customizable and elanorate to provide a holistic visibility across the traffic.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using is as in Internal Segmentation firewall and we needed robust routing capabilties to start with .
SDWAN funtionsality in Sophos Firewall helped to avhive the same with undelying effective SLA capabilties is helping us the much needed zero inmpact transitions.
User level authentication with built in MFA capabiltiy using 3rd part MFA agents likegoogle authenticator,microsoft autheticator - is helping us secure the user layer.


    Darshan D.

Simple and robust firewall

  • February 24, 2024
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
-Simple GUI
-Inbuilt support for VPN
-Easy to create rules for custom routing
-Great reporting dashboard
-It also has web api which makes it easy to control forewall remotly.
-We can also have multiple ISPs and create routing based on that
What do you dislike about the product?
-we observed resource usage spike sometimes
-Configuration can be simplified.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use SophosXG Firewall for routing traffic across multiple VLANs, multiple ISPs, content filtering and blocking certain inbound traffic. It works very well. Given that Sophos firewall is the first line of defense as it helps us with keeping unwanted traffic away of the network and protect our network resources.


    Information Services

review of Sophos Firewall

  • February 23, 2024
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What do you like best about the product?
to provide cybersecurity service with 24/7 hour.
What do you dislike about the product?
In certain deployment scenarios or with extensive security features enabled, Sophos Firewall may require significant hardware resources, which could be a concern for organizations with budget constraints or older hardware.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
it is provide Sophos Chatbot to solve your future problems and inspecting network traffic and enforcing security policies.


    Abhishek D.

Keeps Your Network Safe Best At Bussiness

  • February 23, 2024
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
-Advanced Threat Protection
-Best Reporting and Analytics
-One of The Fine Support and Updates Provider
What do you dislike about the product?
-I Find It Is quite Complex for Beginners
-Does not Give you enough Customization
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
What is Like Most About Sophos Firewall is it protects you from wide range of cyber threats, including malware, ransomware, phishing attempts, and other malicious activities.


    Jitendra K.

Sophos Firewall the most powerful in the security era.

  • February 23, 2024
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What do you like best about the product?
I am working on different firewalls including Sophos Firewalls (Sophos) is the easiest and cheapest compared to other leading firewalls. A leader in Gartner's, it delivers its intention as an NGFW with a built-in SDWAN feature/dual antivirus/synchronized security/ Sophos central as very easy to manage centrally.

I love the GUI and detection and visibility of reach security capabilities that Sophos Firewall has. The wide range of product portfolio integration makes Sophos Firewall the most powerful in the security era.


Thanks,
Jitendra Kumar
What do you dislike about the product?
I was troubleshooting the HA issue and resolved it gracefully but found a reboot frustrating.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sophos Firewall provides a wide range of gateways and internal security features as compared to other very cheapest prices.


    Yogesh G.

Excellent Sophos Firewall for OnPrem

  • February 23, 2024
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
- We can easily setup and configure sophos firewall.
- GUI interface is good and it's will be easy to manage from GUI
- User Access Control and manage
- Easily manage internet speed account to user's requirements
- It's very simple to configure email notification for if any ISP link is up or down
- Configure VPN for outside office users to access office endpoints
- We can easily manage unused website access in user's system
What do you dislike about the product?
- Need to improve customer support
- There is no such things to dislike about.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We can easily install and configure firewall and restrict un-used website & block outside traffic. Sometime it's very difficult to upgrade firmware version.

Overall, We can Create the user based policy for required internet, web access etc. We can create the VPN for access the Onprem network from outside the user. It can get the email notfication if any IPS down for UP. We can also blocked the application and URL as per company policy.


    Shashi k.

Sophos firewall protract as shield configuration and console are attractive and easy

  • February 22, 2024
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What do you like best about the product?
1. Liked very much monitor function it includes all adminstrator requirements such as Routing, DHCP, Loadbalance, IPsec, SSL VPN, SDWAN and Firewall users, Intrusion prevention and so on.
2. Configuration and report generation is easy and GUI sophos dashboard looks nice and handy customization.
3. Allows both Remote access vpn and site to site vpn this types provide more security to use public IPs anywhare in the world.
4.A massive and effective protection against wide area of cyber threats
What do you dislike about the product?
As of now i have no issue to with sophos
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
In COVID time all employees do work from home we need to secure our data and network, sophos firewall provides and ensure the remort site as well as to ensure vpn connection for employess.
Sophos firewall is shield ananist extrnal attacks, mange and report the Vulnerability assesment actions.


    Information Technology and Services

Easy to setup and user friendly firewall

  • February 21, 2024
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
-As I said in title, first time setup, rules confiuration is super easy.
-Smooth user experience
-Thorough reports
-Rest APIs also available in case you want to automate something within Sophos firewall
-Syslog facility for log forwarding
-Out of the box VPN integration
What do you dislike about the product?
-Can be bit expensive for smaller businesses
-No free trial for Sophos XG
-Sometimes ram usage spikes randomly
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sophos firewall is great for traffic managment, route managment and enhances network security. It helps with security by keeping unwanted traffic away from the network. It also helps with custom routing and exposing certain services to the internet.