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Great UTM at a great price
What do you like best about the product?
It is pretty much set it and forget it. It does everything we need and there is little I need to tweak once its running.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the reports are still not very non-it friendly. Went to a different app for Web reporting for managers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Needed something that would just do its job and not be a pain to manage. this does it.
Best Firewall Solution On The Market
What do you like best about the product?
I have started using Sophos UTM when it was still known as Astaro. While I have been looking at other products to follow new innovations, I consistently found that Sophos delivered the best features in its category. It is fairly easy to setup and it just works. I cannot say the same for many other solutions I have evaluated over the years.
What do you dislike about the product?
For the past few years, Sophos has been telling us that we will soon be able to migrate to their new solution Sophos XG. Sadly, the new solution is behind on features and I have yet to see the promised migration tool. That said, I can see that Sophos XG is a forward looking solution. I just wish that development would move along a little quicker. Why am I talking about Sophos XG here? Well, Sophos has pretty much stopped development on Sophos UTM and so we are only getting fixes and maintenance patches at the moment.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It works well protecting my company's assets in the data center. At the same time, we can safely connect our office to work with our SAP servers in the data center.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are running a smaller company like me and are looking for reliable features for your money, you should give Sophos UTM a try. It worked extremely well for us and it allows us to safely connect our office to our SAP servers in the data center.
Sophos Security
What do you like best about the product?
The company chose Sophos for our systems and it gives us the security of allowing employees to have their company email on their personal devices.
What do you dislike about the product?
To this point, I have not encountered a problem.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The program is available to be downloaded on our mobile devices, which allows employees the ability to have the company email on their private devices. They can review and respond to their email regardless of where they are.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would highly recomend this program to other companies. This has brought a secure feeling to allowing employees to use their personal devices to monitor their company email.
Sophos Firewalls Rock
What do you like best about the product?
The Sophos firewalls are are full of features to protect the corporate network. Everything from IPS, to Reverse Proxy Services, to SSL VPN, and more. You can even do deep packet and application aware scanning and control.
What do you dislike about the product?
When purchasing, there is a kind of black magic to choosing the right hardware level. The firewall must be sized just just depending on how much bandwidth you have and how many services you want to turn on.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Full integrated security management for the corporate network. The firewall will integrate with the Sophos antivirus and antiransomware software give you a wholistic approach to network security.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Dont skimp when sizing the hardware. The more you spend today, the better the solution will fit for the duration of its life.
Sophos UTM
What do you like best about the product?
XG units are easy to manage thanks to their cloud console and have very powerful features. The "security heartbeat" that syncs endpoint antivirus/antimalware/anticrypto with the firewall is a no brainer. Combined with the ability to manage FDE and see which users pose the highest risk based on behavior has made the entire stack invaluable to our clients.
What do you dislike about the product?
SG units are solid but take too many steps to create and apply new policies. Some of the documentation is not entirely clear at first, but they seem to be improving it. Support can be hit or miss, depends on who picks up the phone. We've never had a problem not fixed before we ended the conversation, but sometimes the call went longer than it should have.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The ability to manage all of our clients in one dashboard has greatly streamlined our processes, saving us time and leading to faster service times.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
XG units are the way to go. We always recommend one model up from what the current client needs are to allow for growth and new features.
Sophos is easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to navigate GUI interface. ssl vpn is rock solid.
What do you dislike about the product?
WAF function has tripped me up before, causing issues.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Firewall, vpn, dynamic routing, threat detection.
Excellent Protection and support
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use
On demand updates
Excellent support
On demand updates
Excellent support
What do you dislike about the product?
I have absolutely no dislikes, other than maybe server update times
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
End to end protection and support
Easy to use, keeps computers safe
What do you like best about the product?
I like how quickly it scans my computer and shows me and shows me a detailed log of suspicious activity detected.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing I particularly dislike.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sophos is provided to all University of Washington staff and students free of cost. The main benefit is that it keeps my desktop and labtops virus free.
Easy to sell security
What do you like best about the product?
Devices are easy to switch out and copy over confit files when we have issues.
What do you dislike about the product?
Our techs find the Sophos support not as helpful as they would kike
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We lease these to our clients aspect of an MSP offering. This helps us manage risk.
Amazing firewall
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use and how simple setting up everything is. How much simple customization you can do. The complete and active log that you can just watch if something is getting blocked its pretty simple to track down.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is honestly nothing I don't like about this software. I will say that when you first start using it however
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Being able to fully work with customization of the computer/user level and how much of what they see on the internet. Also blocking ads from the firewall level is really nice.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Don't hesitate it's a really great firewall.
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