My clients use Sophos XG for deploying firewalls at corporate office and branch offices. The branches connect via site-to-site VPN, allowing outbound traffic from the central location.
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Common issues and consideration with a NextGen firewall
What do you like best about the product?
Rich reporting and comprehensive dashboard
What do you dislike about the product?
Limitations of real-time traffic monitoring
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Cost effective high performance solution which allows us to manage the better user experience with digital infrastrucure
Easy to use & reliable in case of protection
What do you like best about the product?
Sophos is easy to set up and managing. I like the antivirus, web filtering, and application control. Customer support wise I am satisfied.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it feels relatively more expensive, especially when compared to other options available in the market.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sophos firewalls protect my networks from a wide range of threats, including malware, ransomware, phishing attacks.
Great UTM and Easy for Network Administration
What do you like best about the product?
The product offers a comprehensive set of features, including firewall capabilities, load balancing, SD-WAN, application filtering, and web filtering. Its administrative interface is user-friendly, making it easy to implement and manage. SSL VPN is supported, and the reporting tools provide insights into daily usage. Integration with other systems is straightforward, and the support team is available 24x7 with an escalation matrix in place to address any issues promptly.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have been using the Sophos firewall for over five years, and I find that the amount of administrative work required for reporting is minimal.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sophos offers top-notch cybersecurity that stands out for its seamless integration, user-friendly interface, and effective protection. I have found their support to be responsive, with quick resolutions and strong product knowledge, especially in areas like LAN, WAN, SSL, and VPN. Our experience with Sophos Central has been excellent—it provides a single cloud-based management solution for all our Sophos next-generation technologies, including endpoint, server, mobile, firewall, ZTNA, and email. The unified management console, real-time information sharing between products, and automated incident response have made managing cybersecurity much simpler and more efficient for us.
Sophos has been especially beneficial for environments like ours that rely on BYOD. We use the Captive Portal and have integrated our NAS into the infrastructure. Our BYOD-ready setup was designed, deployed, and implemented in-house with Sophos's support, and we take great pride in what we've achieved.
Sophos has been especially beneficial for environments like ours that rely on BYOD. We use the Captive Portal and have integrated our NAS into the infrastructure. Our BYOD-ready setup was designed, deployed, and implemented in-house with Sophos's support, and we take great pride in what we've achieved.
SECURITY MADE SIMPLE
What do you like best about the product?
1. The sophos firewall ease of use
2. The sophos firewall extensive all in one box features
3. Syncronized security with endpoints
4. SDWAN central orchestration.
2. The sophos firewall extensive all in one box features
3. Syncronized security with endpoints
4. SDWAN central orchestration.
What do you dislike about the product?
1. RMA process takes time and sometimes affects productivity
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Network visibility is the biggest problem solved by sophos as it gives us visibility into use traffic in the network.
Sophos Firewall very
What do you like best about the product?
Sophos XGS Series firewalls combine the best of two worlds: the flexibility of a high-performance, multi-core CPU for deep-packet inspection, plus the performance benefits of a dedicated Xstream Flow Processor for intelligent application acceleration
What do you dislike about the product?
Reports should have more deatils.
SSL VPN needs to be upto industry standard.
SSL VPN needs to be upto industry standard.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
connectivity between branches.
security,
WIFI
security,
WIFI
Provides network visibility and reporting capabilities, constantly improving over time
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The firewall provides network visibility and reporting capabilities, constantly improving over time. It can be integrated with the cloud console, allowing centralized management of multiple firewalls. integration with endpoint security products ensures seamless traffic flow and rule enforcement, even when endpoints are not directly connected to the firewall.
What needs improvement?
I've had experience with Sophos XG's threat intelligence features, and they provide good coverage, although I wouldn't say they're the best in the industry. The sandbox feature is available with top-tier subscriptions, allowing you to test content in a cloud sandbox.
One improvement I'd suggest for Sophos XG is to make certain functionalities, like CR functionality, part of the default firewalling rather than exclusive to premium subscriptions. Enhancing DLP capabilities at the gateway level could significantly boost security for organizations.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Sophos XG for the past 10 years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
As for stability, I'd give it a high score, maybe a nine, because it keeps running without much downtime.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I'd rate them an eight for stablity It's not to say they're perfect, but generally, it's pretty good I'd recommend it for companies of all sizes.
How was the initial setup?
Integrating Sophos XG into existing infrastructure was quite easy and straightforward. There were hardly any complexities involved in the process.you can use both options - cloud-based or hardware-based firewalls. When I mention hybrid, it means having both options available. While cloud-based firewalls offer convenience, they can be more expensive compared to hardware ones. Although I haven't personally worked with the cloud version, it seems similar in appearance but may have different features. Cloud-based firewalls may seem like an overkill in terms of price, especially when considering the cost of operation over time. They become more beneficial when additional security layers like zero trust, DLP, or secure web gateway functionalities are added. This expands security beyond physical location constraints, making it accessible from anywhere.
What other advice do I have?
I'd rate Sophos XG an 8. It's my first preference and confidently recommend it to other users.
It was nice experience as Sophos.
What do you like best about the product?
I liked the fact that it has has good features.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing as such to dislike just the part of email can be done properly
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helped me a lot in online traffic control and also we can scan every thing.
I recommend sophos for Education
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use, product features aligned with our requirements, helps in safeguarding of students, URL filtering
Synchronisation with XDR.
Synchronisation with XDR.
What do you dislike about the product?
Customer support is not great. Youtube restrictions are great however, unable to create custom policies for users.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sophos Firewall ensures our stakeholders are in a safer environment. Its very convenient to creat policies, and web and application filter rules.
Smartest firewall in the market
What do you like best about the product?
As a cybersecurity expert I can say that the best thing about Sophos is that it can be controlled using a single console. It reduces the effort of the user as it can be easily installed or integrated. Continuous scanning of the network is an another great thing about the firewall. My firewall is continuously on for 24 X 7 and with this much of use it works fine without heating much. In YouTube videos I saw good customer support so no need to worry for customer support.
What do you dislike about the product?
Their is nothing that i can dislike. But if the cost can be reduced then it will be the best in price.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am using it in my college campus and inorder to protect the college intranet i have to use Sophos earlier I was using fortinet firewall but it was not fulfilling my needs. Earlier my college network was getting lots of unusual traffic now after installing this firewall it is blocking all the suspicious traffic in my network.
An intuitive product that easy to manage
What do you like best about the product?
Its intuitive and relatively easy to use.
Its granularity allows for configuration to suit what is required.
Reliable
Its granularity allows for configuration to suit what is required.
Reliable
What do you dislike about the product?
Not a lot. Perhaps relies a bit on its 'community' but that isnt unusual these days.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Gives us security of access to the 'cloud' but alos security of access across our internal networks.
Acts as a great Wireless Controller for its APs
Acts as a great Wireless Controller for its APs
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