Sophos Cloud Firewall (PAYG)
Sophos | 21.0 GALinux/Unix, Other 20.0 MR2 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Intuitive and Solid Firewall
What do you like best about the product?
Sophos Firewall is incredibly intuitive and makes it easy for less experienced administrators to pick up. It offers good value for the features that it offers which is especially important for small and medium-sized enterprises like us, such as the free integration with Sophos Central that enables streamlined management in the cloud.
What do you dislike about the product?
The log viewer only allows us to view logs over a very short period of time. To view older logs, we can only do so via the command-line interface. The level of customer support in our region also varies depending on the time that the ticket was opened as Sophos rotates the support between 2 countries, making it a mixed experience at times.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The ease of use shortens the time needed to tweak the rules and policies when the need arises, such as when new applications are installed in the network or when user access issues occur. The robust security features also ensure that less time is spent to address new security threats. This is especially important for companies that have a limited number of network administrators.
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good experience
What do you like best about the product?
Strong solution. Management interface easy to use. Low cost, ease of implementation
What do you dislike about the product?
The Level one support is slow to respond and sometimes you need to go to level 2 to get real technical help
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Network protection, intrusion detection, content filtering, app control...
Runs without problems and is reliable
What do you like best about the product?
It runs smoothly and is reliable, the user interface is simple, and the support is great.
What do you dislike about the product?
The setup was somewhat lengthy and could be simpler.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
So far, everything is running smoothly.
Sophos Firewalls: Good Value and Great for SMB's
What do you like best about the product?
It is a very cost effective solution. It packs a lot of value with features. The obn-boarding is very smooth and good for organizations that do not have a lot of IT expertise in-house available. Good for both Medium sized and small business alike.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sophos Admin Consoles are klunky and a little disjointed. Their workflows are not like anything else on the market, so it takes time to get used to it. It is designed by Engineers for Engineers. You spend a lot of time jumping around to completely different areas in the console for dealing with a single issue.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Securing our Datacenter and Branches. We removed our MPLS network and implement SD-WAN between our branches. There is good endpoint security, web filtering and application control along with Sophos Central integration for cloud management.
Sophos Firewall review
What do you like best about the product?
The integration with Sophos Central is clean and makes remote management really straightforward. The UI is intuitive for most day-to-day tasks, and the security features (like web filtering, IPS, and application control) are solid out of the box. I also like how it ties in with other Sophos products—it’s clear the ecosystem was designed to work well together.
What do you dislike about the product?
I'd like for Sophos Central to be able to connect to the firewalls more reliably. I find myself never really using Central and just interfacing with the firewall directly as it's more responsive. Certain rules and NAT translation rules are a little hard to keep track of when linking to rules.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
RED tunnels and site to site VPN quite effective.
Great overall administrator experience despite some menu navigation difficulties
What do you like best about the product?
- Excellent and comprehensive feature set
- Clear reporting and threat hunting
- ZTNA (Zero Trust Network Access) setup, integration and maintenance is extremely simple
- Fast and helpful customer support
- Clear reporting and threat hunting
- ZTNA (Zero Trust Network Access) setup, integration and maintenance is extremely simple
- Fast and helpful customer support
What do you dislike about the product?
- Some of the menus and sub-menus are difficult to navigate, often making it hard to find the specific menu or feature that is required
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our entire network security infrastructure revolves around Sophos Firewall. It's benefit on our cybersecurity setup cannot be overstated.
Useful and manageable cybersecurity team
What do you like best about the product?
Central management, intuitive interface, very useful and practical cybersecurity tool. It facilitates the monitoring and control of network services. It allows very practical control for local and WAN network services.
What do you dislike about the product?
Version updates are very frequent and in certain changes, it does not save those configurations. The NAT and SDWAN section is repetitive in selecting the source networks. We have had the bad experience that when restarting the Sophos for any reason, it no longer starts and the device is diagnosed as RMA.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The protection against current threats, safeguard the information. Control productive internet usage.
8 years of Sophos with firewalls, REDs and End Point Solutions
What do you like best about the product?
It's not the easiest solution to setup when You start to work with it, but appears You just have to get used to logic that Sopgos uses and then everything starts to flow. Even if we get some roadblocks, local support really helps in daily questions and urgent cases. And overall bang for the buck is really attractive.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some UI features and some UI visually has to step up compared to competitors. Of course there are even worse vendors with even worse UI, but it needs to step up.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
First of course - security. Helps to protect from outside and inside risks.
Secondary - helped to connect our branches to main main office without need to buy expensive VPNs from ISP vendors.
Secondary - helped to connect our branches to main main office without need to buy expensive VPNs from ISP vendors.
Good centralized administration, Networkperformance leaves something to be desired
What do you like best about the product?
The centralized administration is a great tool to reduce administration overhead. The posibility to connect onPrem-Hardware to this easy is also good. The short delay between updating exeption rules for clients is nice. The Support was swift and good. At one time we enabled and misconfigured the Mailprotection. Your support was able to resolve this issue in no time.
What do you dislike about the product?
For me the option to mix exeption rules for clients is something i wish for. So you can for example add one global exeption for all clients and then specific ones for example servers or special clients. Currently you have to copy everything and then add some. Also we experience a sharp decline in networking performance if we enable the Network Protection feature from Sophos-Endpoint security.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
They provide external access protection as well as a secure connection for our roadwarriors
The product and the features they offer are worth.
What do you like best about the product?
The products are more user-friendly, and troubleshooting is much easier due to the advanced features they offer.
What do you dislike about the product?
The product hardware stability and consistency are less.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sophos offers many updated features which helps in solving the unexpected attacks and threats.
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