Sophos Cloud Firewall (PAYG)
Sophos | 20.0 MR1Linux/Unix, Other 20.0 MR1 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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One of the best network security appliance for your organization
What do you like best about the product?
1) I most like it's load balancing feature. We can configure load balancing instead of primary or secondary gateway which helps to utilise both primary and secondary links simultenously.
2) quick load transfer to secondary if primary goes down.
3) we can manage source device traffic easily with the help of various firewall rule.
4) mac host features plays vital role in restricting traffic to specific device and users.
2) quick load transfer to secondary if primary goes down.
3) we can manage source device traffic easily with the help of various firewall rule.
4) mac host features plays vital role in restricting traffic to specific device and users.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't see any point to dislike sophos xg firewall
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1) It assures latest threat protection.
2) we able to configure mac id level access to our network
3) its load balancing feature helped us to manage load on both active links and utilise them fully.
4) it's firewall rule feature helped us to manage traffic, web access, bandwidth etc. user and device wise.
5) easy to use and user friendly.
6) it's quick alert on email on link down help us to raise ticket with respective ISP.
2) we able to configure mac id level access to our network
3) its load balancing feature helped us to manage load on both active links and utilise them fully.
4) it's firewall rule feature helped us to manage traffic, web access, bandwidth etc. user and device wise.
5) easy to use and user friendly.
6) it's quick alert on email on link down help us to raise ticket with respective ISP.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Looking for secured and reliable network security appliance for your organisation go for it
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Cost Effective next generation firewall for Small / Medium size organizations.
What do you like best about the product?
Following are the most beneficial features for the Sophos XG firewall:
1. Nice interactive dashboard covering all the information on a single screen.
2. Reports and log monitoring to analyze traffic and threat mapping.
3. Features such as Web and application protection helps to make the network secure.
4. Sophos Central Synchronization helps to synchronize Sophos XG Firewall with all the endpoints and helps in the automatic device isolation in case if a device is infected.
1. Nice interactive dashboard covering all the information on a single screen.
2. Reports and log monitoring to analyze traffic and threat mapping.
3. Features such as Web and application protection helps to make the network secure.
4. Sophos Central Synchronization helps to synchronize Sophos XG Firewall with all the endpoints and helps in the automatic device isolation in case if a device is infected.
What do you dislike about the product?
Device configuration needs to be more user-friendly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Following tasks has performed by Sophos XG Firewall:
1. Network and Web protection of all devices in the network.
2. Intrusion Prevention and Application Filtering.
3. Routing and VPN for office network.
1. Network and Web protection of all devices in the network.
2. Intrusion Prevention and Application Filtering.
3. Routing and VPN for office network.
Easy to deploy and work
What do you like best about the product?
1. Initial setup of the device is very easy.
2. Easily understandable graphical user Interface
3. Easy to configure Dynamic NAT and Static NAT policies
4. Configuration of remote access and site-to-site VPN is very easy.
5. Provides excellent log visibility in the log viewer tab.
2. Easily understandable graphical user Interface
3. Easy to configure Dynamic NAT and Static NAT policies
4. Configuration of remote access and site-to-site VPN is very easy.
5. Provides excellent log visibility in the log viewer tab.
What do you dislike about the product?
1. Technical documents are not very much available.
2.Poor customer support.
3. GUI loads slowly when initially connecting to it.
2.Poor customer support.
3. GUI loads slowly when initially connecting to it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1. Blocking adult content, shopping, social networking access for the users to increase productivity.
2. Securing endpoints with strict security policies
3. Providing DHCP to the clients connected.
4. Accessing internal servers using remote access SSL VPN service.
2. Securing endpoints with strict security policies
3. Providing DHCP to the clients connected.
4. Accessing internal servers using remote access SSL VPN service.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Reasonable price recommended to others which concerns about cost.
Good Security "Sophos"
What do you like best about the product?
One of the significant features is we can integrate other products of Sophos into this. Easy to use and the training provided by them is very useful for the people who is new to this product. They do have a trial version for noncommercial usage. We can easily manage our organization's peripherals and users under one dashboard.It is also cost efficient.
What do you dislike about the product?
Technical Support could have been better with their support. Turnaround time they take to reply back to our issues takes longer.
It also failed to generate logs at times.
It also failed to generate logs at times.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were using Sophos earlier to maintain our organization's security standards and data security. We have also integrated a VPN service to work from home users to connect organization networks.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
People looking to enhance their network security can give out a try to this firewall. It does have multiple security features which come cost-effectively.
Best Product for SMB Networks
What do you like best about the product?
Provide the best security for Small and Medium businesses.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some features are not available like advanced routing on Firewall
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is helping Small and medium customers by providing security who are not in a position to spend much amount on securing their infrastructure
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Recommended for Small and medium businesses
User-friendly and Secure
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to deploy and easy to configure the device. easy to write policies for blocking and allowing certain URLs. and it provides good security
What do you dislike about the product?
there is some delay when we apply any changes we made, it takes time to apply the changes
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Mainly security of endpoint devices and remote access of servers.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
easy to use. go for it.
Amazing for the small it departments
What do you like best about the product?
Amazing for the small it departments. Very easy to deploy and manage while providing great protection. To do not need a whole SOC to manage and monitor these.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not much, very good option. I do wish that the web admin exceptions supported FQDN's like their UTM to make remote support easy and secure from a dynamic remote IP address.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Really reduced the total cost of ownership without lowering our level of protection.
Value for money Firewall for the SMB segments
What do you like best about the product?
GUI is user friendly. Easy deployment for any requirement.
What do you dislike about the product?
response from support still needs improvement. Better communication and better support engineers needed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Better ROI for clients looking for entry level firewall. As well as stopping numerous ransomware attacks
All the features the CTO asks for while keeping the CFO happy also (great value!)
What do you like best about the product?
The Sophos XG is easy to manage. The user interface is simple and intuitive. If you need to step into the CLI, there is plenty of documentation for that as well. The built-in support for the easy-to-interface REDs tunnels is great.
What do you dislike about the product?
We have not had any problems with the Sophos XG series. Dollar for feature, the Sophos XG line is a fantastic value. We previously had used Cyberoam products, and the Sophos acquisition and enhanced development of the product have been a blessing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With working from home becoming a "new normal", I am able to easily segregate traffic and control Internet bandwidth in my home/office, allocating the resource as needed without needing a separate connection from my ISP. Filtering content for the "non-employee" individuals at my workplace is a huge benefit.
I have had great success with Sophos XG firewalls.
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of working with the content filtering for controlling user access.
What do you dislike about the product?
It took a little bit of practice to get used to the interface.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The main problem solved was for secure access from remote users and security controls for Internet access. In the past year we realized the power of the platform with an additional load of remote users.
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