Sophos Cloud Firewall (PAYG)
Sophos | 20.0 MR1Linux/Unix, Other 20.0 MR1 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Excellent protection!
What do you like best about the product?
Multi factor authentication through the sophos Authenticator app. Robust level of options for all business situations.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing really. I guess my only issue is lack of clarity on versioning for firmware and compatibility with backups.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Security of our business network
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Ok product with poor support
What do you like best about the product?
Intrusion prevention system works fine and do the job as expected.
What do you dislike about the product?
Support almost not exist. Support agents generally have no idea what they are doing and acting irresponsibly on the production environment and leaving so many mess behind. Response time is total joke for critical cases (eg; 2-3 days one email and even you reply immediately you get second response after another 2-3 days.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Content filtering and firewall, however not at desired level.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If support is important to you then look for a different product. You will feel alone when the things goes south.
Best Protection in simple way
What do you like best about the product?
Protect from all the internal and external attack.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sophos doesn't support active multiple vpn.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sophos is helping by filtering the unproductive website while helps in bandwidth consume
XG firewall - AI Powered Firewall for your Organization Security
What do you like best about the product?
Risk management and help to reduce the risk of the organization being hit by a cyber incident from threat actors and stay ahead of emerging threats.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nil. Sophos XG firewall has helped analyze logs for proactive monitoring. I will do well to come back and update if anything chnages.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Firewall, Ransomeware Attack, Log Monitoring, VPN Solution, Email Security, Routing to mention just a few
Sophos is a very professional Firewall that you can rely on for either small or big companies.
What do you like best about the product?
Sophos XG Firewall simplifies your work, and at the same time, lets you do whatever you might think of concerning Firewall.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only disadvantage I can see in Sophos is that it is slightly slower than other similar software. But that is because it is far more detailed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As an ICT Supervisor in my company, Sophos helps me give specific permissions to our staff, each depending on his duties.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Sophos XG Firewall is the best firewall nowadays and incomparable to other software; very professional and user-friendly.
Sophos XG firewalls
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to manager, works well with Sophos wireless access points
What do you dislike about the product?
Long reboot time, rack ears are separate
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Network security for branches
best mid range firewall
What do you like best about the product?
1. Initial configuration doesn't require many technical requirements; we can configure it quickly.
2. Compact size and less weight.
3. when it comes to performance, even in heavy traffic, it works well and is normal.
4. Configuration wizard for configuring DNAT rule, which guides how to configure port forwarding.
5. Supports IPsec connection with multiple vendor firewalls.
2. Compact size and less weight.
3. when it comes to performance, even in heavy traffic, it works well and is normal.
4. Configuration wizard for configuring DNAT rule, which guides how to configure port forwarding.
5. Supports IPsec connection with multiple vendor firewalls.
What do you dislike about the product?
1. CLI is not that much useful.
2. No option to import bulk address objects.
3. firewall default rule 0 block rule matches to allowed traffic, even though allow rule written.
2. No option to import bulk address objects.
3. firewall default rule 0 block rule matches to allowed traffic, even though allow rule written.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1. Deployed Sophos on one of the branch offices and configured the site-to-site VPN to the primary office for providing internal server access.
2. Using it as NetFlow and Syslog exporter to analyze the logs from the LAN for any threats.
3. Configured captive portal access for the guest users to provide limited access.
4. Using Sophos as the central DHCP server and providing the DHCP options for the access points and the other devices
2. Using it as NetFlow and Syslog exporter to analyze the logs from the LAN for any threats.
3. Configured captive portal access for the guest users to provide limited access.
4. Using Sophos as the central DHCP server and providing the DHCP options for the access points and the other devices
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Best recommended for small and medium business organizations, and Sophos is very easy to manage.
Best Next generation firewall for your business at affordable price
What do you like best about the product?
I most like its interface, which is very easy to use and understand compared to other firewalls. It is next-generation firewall with the best security features. It ensures the latest threat protection along with applications, web, and content control.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have not faced any single issue with XG firewall yet, so no point to dislike it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1) It helped us to manage and control web traffic in our organization.
2) It ensures advanced threat protection
3) We able to configure content-based web control for our organization.
4) It helped us to protect our emails from spam or phishing attack.
5) It's next-generation technology helped us to optimise internet uses for our organization.
2) It ensures advanced threat protection
3) We able to configure content-based web control for our organization.
4) It helped us to protect our emails from spam or phishing attack.
5) It's next-generation technology helped us to optimise internet uses for our organization.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Best next generation firewall
Reliable and secured firewall from sophos
What do you like best about the product?
1) it is reliable and secured firewall from sophos.
2) it's IPsec features helped us to link our branches and offices without MPLS. Which saved our lot of money.
3) it's user friendly interface helps to understand and configure firewall faster.
2) it's IPsec features helped us to link our branches and offices without MPLS. Which saved our lot of money.
3) it's user friendly interface helps to understand and configure firewall faster.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't have any point to dislike sophos firewall.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1) cost effective solution compared to others.
2) it's frequent updates secures organization data from latest threat.
3) various features like load balancing, IPsec, website access restrictions help us to manage organization network efficiently.
4) we able to set bandwidth quota and speed user or device wise using firewall rule.
5) it helped to save money by using IPsec feature instead of MPLS.
6) we can utilise primary and backup line fully with its load balancing feature.
2) it's frequent updates secures organization data from latest threat.
3) various features like load balancing, IPsec, website access restrictions help us to manage organization network efficiently.
4) we able to set bandwidth quota and speed user or device wise using firewall rule.
5) it helped to save money by using IPsec feature instead of MPLS.
6) we can utilise primary and backup line fully with its load balancing feature.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Protect your organization data with reliable and secured firewall
Advanced protection
What do you like best about the product?
1. The initial box configuration is very simple; even a person with some technical knowledge can configure this.
2. Simple and user-friendly web dashboard.
3. Log viewer is very responsive and has many filtering options for sorting packets.
4. Easy to know which user is accessing what application and website.
5. SSL VPN can be configured with fewer steps.
6. Throughput is decent even after applying all security profiles and inspections.
2. Simple and user-friendly web dashboard.
3. Log viewer is very responsive and has many filtering options for sorting packets.
4. Easy to know which user is accessing what application and website.
5. SSL VPN can be configured with fewer steps.
6. Throughput is decent even after applying all security profiles and inspections.
What do you dislike about the product?
1. Technical support is not that much responsive.
2. When device gets heat or device temperature is high, firewall will not respond properly.
2. When device gets heat or device temperature is high, firewall will not respond properly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1. Blocking unwanted traffic for users on LAN.
2. Accessing internal server from outside internet by configuring DNAT on Sophos.
3. Taking reports of the user data consumption.
4. Protecting servers on DMZ from outside attacks like brute force and port scannings.
2. Accessing internal server from outside internet by configuring DNAT on Sophos.
3. Taking reports of the user data consumption.
4. Protecting servers on DMZ from outside attacks like brute force and port scannings.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It has a good dashboard, and options are user-friendly; it is suitable for those who are less experienced with firewalls.
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