Complete traffic control with robust policies, NDR, and DNS protection
What do you like best about the product?
It is a very comprehensive device that helps perform all traffic control. It features robust policies for web control and application control. Additionally, with its new NDR utilities and DNS protection, it proves to be very useful.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some reports are a bit complex to understand, which is why it is necessary to download different ones to be able to understand the threat.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
When a company does not have a firewall to monitor all traffic, perform robust inspection, balance the load, create SD-WAN routes, and establish VPN connections, it becomes difficult to maintain control and security of the network.
Robust protection has blocked external threats and provides clear visibility into user activity
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for Sophos Firewall is blocking threats from outside. I use Sophos Firewall to block threats from outside by implementing a rule-based policy, where whenever traffic has to pass through the firewall, I create a rule, and based on that rule, I can easily perform the configuration that I want with the restriction.
With the help of Sophos Firewall, I can also have visibility on my users, see what they are doing and what they need to use, and apply those types of restrictions from Sophos Firewall.
What is most valuable?
Sophos Firewall offers multiple features, including IPS, IDS, ATP, NDR, XOps, web protection, application protection, web server protection, and many more. Out of all those features, I find web protection and application protection to be very helpful and valuable in my daily work.
Sophos Firewall has positively impacted my organization by preventing outside threats, allowing me to easily monitor my users, and configuring any rule for any user regarding what they need to use and what I am restricting for the particular user. I can share that it has improved productivity because if anyone could ransom my network, they could demand money to decrypt the files, thus saving us money, time, and providing reliability.
What needs improvement?
Sophos Firewall can be improved by providing more throughput. As of now, it is working well, but if there is a report facility for generating more detailed reports, such as brief reports, it would also be helpful.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Sophos Firewall for the last two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Sophos Firewall is stable as of now.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Sophos Firewall's scalability is good; if I want to migrate, it can easily be done with the help of the backup and restore feature.
How are customer service and support?
Customer support for Sophos is very good. I would rate the customer support a 10 out of 10.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I previously used Fortinet before switching to Sophos Firewall. I switched from Fortinet to Sophos Firewall because of the licenses and the user interface; Sophos Firewall's user interface is very user-friendly, and unlike Fortinet, which requires purchasing a VPN license separately, Sophos Firewall includes the VPN license for free.
What was our ROI?
I have seen a return on investment as it has saved our money and time, especially since Sophos Firewall can save money from outside attackers.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Sophos Firewall is good; with the Xstream Protection bundle, I can get multiple features, including DNS protection, and the VPN licenses are free for Sophos Firewall, making it very favorable.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before choosing Sophos Firewall, I evaluated other options, including taking a demo for Palo Alto, but I found Palo Alto to be very high cost, so I did not switch to that.
What other advice do I have?
Sophos Firewall also includes a VPN feature with types of VPN setup that allows me to easily facilitate remote work. My advice to others looking into using Sophos Firewall is that I recommend it as it is easy to use, easy to deploy, and the licensing is not overly complicated, making it reliable. Sophos Firewall is very reliable, very user-friendly, and easy to use. I give this product a rating of 10 out of 10.
User Management in One Dashboard
What do you like best about the product?
It easy to use and confirtable to manage all network and user on one dashboard
What do you dislike about the product?
Firmware updates can sometimes cause unexpected issues, including stability problems, in some cases requiring re-configuration
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Uses Sophos Labs AI and machine learning to identify and stop zero-day exploits and malware, reducing the risk of data breaches.
Easy to Understand, User-Friendly, and Highly Secure Firewall
What do you like best about the product?
It is easy to understand and user-friendly. Most secured firewall.
What do you dislike about the product?
NAT rules automatically created when creating firewall rule.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As of now many problems solved by firewall. Round-robin process is very benefit.
Exceptional Security for Networking and User Protection
What do you like best about the product?
Secure My Networking and My user from any network attack
What do you dislike about the product?
Tge report doesn't have more details about my bandwidth usage
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Secure mu users and secure the Internet
Outstanding Security Solution for Client Protection
What do you like best about the product?
It's a great security product that helps us protect all of our clients.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the web access to the firewalls can be slow, but it's gotten a lot better over time!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps us keep our clients secure.
Strong Security, But Complex Setup and High Costs
What do you like best about the product?
What I like best about Sophos Firewall is its strong security features combined with an easy-to-use interface, making it simple to manage threats, monitor traffic, and protect the network without complex configuration.
What do you dislike about the product?
What I dislike about Sophos Firewall is that some advanced configurations can be complex and time-consuming, and the hardware requirements and licensing costs may be high for small organizations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sophos Firewall solves the problem of network vulnerabilities and unmanaged traffic by providing robust threat protection, intrusion prevention, and application control. This benefits me by ensuring a secure and stable network environment, reducing risks from cyberattacks, and giving clear visibility into network activity for better decision-making.
All-in-One Security Made Simple with Sophos Firewall
What do you like best about the product?
Sophos firewall has an advanced threat protection, which means it does everything within the same firewall console like protection from virus, detection of phishing emails, and controls spams over the network! It is extremely easy to use and configure through Sophos central which shows everything within a single window. Sophos firewall can be integrated in any environment too.
What do you dislike about the product?
Lack some advance features which can be find in the competitors, like scalability for large enterprises. It slows down over the time of period and creates performance issues too if you enable DPI.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Limiting users for the bandwidth usage as blocking the streaming website like YouTube. It is extremely helpful for the network security and blocking a lot of unwanted traffic.
User-Friendly Dashboard and Excellent Support
What do you like best about the product?
Advance theat production and MDR solution user friendly dashboard,they provide good customer support
What do you dislike about the product?
When uploading back configuration file ,some models,and versions support and some not supported
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The sophos firewall ease to read reports and flush
Sophos Central Makes Firewall Management Effortless
What do you like best about the product?
It had a feature of web filtering options which i liked the most but the most important part i liked was sophos central feature where i can view, configure and manage all the firewall from a single console.
What do you dislike about the product?
firmwares and updates sometimes introduces bugs which causes issues but just sometimes and exporting reports are just basic one.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
to be very precise and simple it heavy protects our networks avoid any kind of threats to enter in our networks. Since the attackers are targeting companies to extract their data and putting the companies to bottom line their business so Sophos firewall here can be great savior and game changer. It benefits to avoid any sort of ransomware attack, avoid data breach and noncompliance issue as well . If all these things are okay our business can run smoothly without any interruption.
