I use Sophos XG in my company as a firewall for my company's network. The product is used to manage the internet access received through routers for our company's network.
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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.
SOPHOS XGS5500
What do you like best about the product?
Excellent Support, Easy to deploy and easy to configure.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not Applicable. We don't have any issues with the firewall.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are an educational sector. We have around 15K students on our campus. Sophos helped us to create firewall rules , VLAN.
Good
What do you like best about the product?
Good defender and policy
Deep packet inspection
Deep packet inspection
What do you dislike about the product?
DPI
IPs
Web protection and App control in single click.
IPs
Web protection and App control in single click.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Threat detection and response
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
Serves as a good firewall option with an easy setup phase
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that the routing functionality provided by the product is very easy for our company to use in our network since it provides for the movement of packets from one device to the other devices in our network, making it an area which works really fine for us.
What needs improvement?
I want an increase in the ability of the product to block and delete the websites and applications that don't work fine for our company. The tool ends up blocking another website that I need when I only want it to block a particular website or application. I can't use the product's application control feature, making it a disadvantage of the solution where improvements are required.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Sophos XG since around 2019, making it five years. I use Sophos Firewall Home Edition.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is a very stable solution. In my company, we have had a reason to restart the product for a long time since the services offered by the tool have been fine enough for our organization.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The product was installed in our company in 2019 when we had around 15 employees. I don't see any issues with the product, considering the increase in the number of devices over the years in our company.
How are customer service and support?
Sophos Firewall Home Edition doesn't provide technical support.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Sometimes, my company needs to rely on pfSense to deal with the area of backup. My company prefers pfSense to save data.
How was the initial setup?
The product's initial setup phase is very easy.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I use Sophos Firewall Home Edition, which is available for free.
What other advice do I have?
I haven't used the VPN capabilities provided by the product since my company already has a VPN-based solution in our environment.
The application control feature of the product is very good. My company doesn't use the application control feature for now since there was an increase in the blocking and deletion of applications when it was used.
The integration of the product into our company's infrastructure did not have any impact on our network performance. In general, the product is a bit buggy when it comes to the area of its impact on network performance.
I recommend the product to those who plan to use it.
I rate the overall tool an eight out of ten.
User-friendly and easy to manage but needs improvement in the throughput area
What is our primary use case?
I use the solution in my company as an edge device on our network.
What is most valuable?
The solution's most valuable feature stems from its ability to protect our organization's web servers.
What needs improvement?
In Sophos XG, the throughput for larger networks is an area of concern where improvements are required.
I hope the product comes up with some better prices and offers for the tools provided to academic institutions.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Sophos XG for two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Stability-wise, I rate the solution a six out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.
There are around 200 to 300 users in our institution.
Though our institution plans to increase the solution's use, we are unsure about the vendor we want to approach.
How was the initial setup?
I rate the product's initial setup phase a seven on a scale of one to ten, where one means it is a difficult process and ten means it has an easy setup phase.
The solution is deployed on an on-premises model.
The solution can be deployed in two to three days.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The product is expensive.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
My company considers Fortinet as an option against Sophos XG.
What other advice do I have?
The product has improved network security for all the networks in my organization. The product also offers endpoint security since my organization has been using the anti-virus software from Sophos for the past ten years.
Sophos XG's interface is very user-friendly.
The performance of Sophos XG's VPN to meet the organization's remote access needs is an area that cannot be discussed due to security concerns. Though the product can meet our organization's current requirements, we are considering alternate solutions since we have plans to improve our network.
The reporting and analytics functionalities helped identify security incidents in our company.
I recommend the product to those who plan to use it because it is easy to manage and solve network-related problems.
I rate the product a seven out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Sophos Firewall is truly exceptional
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.
Security by using Dual-AV, ATP & zero-day protection optimize the overall security posture of our cybersecurity strategry at the network gateway.
User friendly and easy to deploy
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
Sophos Firewall with Xstream Protection capabilties
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.
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.
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.
Simple and robust firewall
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
-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.
-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.
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