What do you like best about the product?

Sophos Cloud Optix is exceptional when it comes to infrastructure visibility, cloud resources inventory management and identifying potential security & compliance risks.

Its platform support for auto-discovery across multiple cloud environments is great & we obtain well-rounded insights from its intuitive dashboard.

Its cloud gap analytics aids us to pinpoint operational inefficiencies & ensures that we are properly aligned with client specifications & compliance standards.

After our EC2 instance deployments, we need to continuously monitor for misconfigurations and vulnerabilities in its security posture. Sophos Cloud Optix provides comprehensive visibility which helps us validate our configurations effectively.

What do you dislike about the product?

We utilize Sophos Cloud Optix platform for many of our AWS services management namely EC2, S3, RDS , IAM and CloudFormation.

For preventing unauthorized access and to enforce limited resource privileges, we manage our IAM users, roles and policies through the visibility offered in its dashboard.

Implementing an unified policy management utility is made simple thanks to its seamless integration with our AWS resources.

Overall, we are satisfied with the implementation & the governance features offered by Sophos Cloud Optix for our infrastructure management & cost optimization procurements.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Recently, we did the analysis of our AWS CloudFormation templates with the help of Sophos Cloud Optix for config errors validation before deployment.

It actively tracks the changes made to any AWS resource in our infrastructure & offers real-time visibility into its security posture information.

Whenever there is any security issues/compliance violations in our CloudFormation stack deployment, Sophos Cloud Optix provides efficient auto-remidiation actions for enforcing compliance standards with our customer security policies.

We can also easily identify idle/unused resources that were deployed from CloudFormation stack. By deleting those stacks, we improve our resource allocation efficiency and minimize cloud expenditures.

With the insights provided by Sophos Cloud Optix, we can comprehend the relationships between the resources deployed via CloudFormation template thereby, prevent infrastructure changes that may potentially impact our production due to misconfiguration in their resource dependencies.