What is Sophos Firewall?
Sophos Firewall’s Xstream architecture protects your network from the latest threats while accelerating your important SaaS, SD-WAN, and cloud application traffic. Sophos Firewall network security platform helps you consolidate and simplify your cybersecurity with a single vendor, cloud management console, and agent.
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87 Likeliness to Recommend
97 Plan to Renew
82 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
- Product Experience:
- 92%
- Negotiation and Contract:
- 92%
- Conflict Resolution:
- 92%
- Strategy & Innovation:
- 91%
- Service Experience:
- 93%
Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.
+92 Net Emotional Footprint
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Pros
- Reliable
- Respectful
- Acts with Integrity
- Security Protects
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Sophos Firewall Reviews
Kushal K.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Feb 2025
Easy to use but lacks advanced features
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Sophos Firewall from other similar products?
Integrates with Sophos Endpoint Protection, Simple and intuitive GUI making it easier to manage compared to Cisco or Palo Alto.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Sophos Firewall uniquely integrates with Sophos Endpoint Protection, enabling real-time threat sharing and automated response, which most competitors lack
What do you dislike most about this product?
Limited advanced features compared to Palo Alto, Cisco, Checkpoint and Fortinet
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Best for small size company, Integrate If you need a budget-friendly firewall you can buy this but it lacks advanced features compared to other vendors.
Pros
- Efficient Service
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
Fatema S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Jan 2025
Reliable and Robust Security Solution.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Sophos Firewall from other similar products?
Sophos Firewall stands out with its synchronized security and seamless integration with other Sophos products, offering faster threat response and easy management.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I appreciate is its user-friendly interface. Despite its advanced capabilities, Sophos Firewall makes it easy for both experienced and less technical users to manage and configure.
What do you dislike most about this product?
As of now, there is no reason for me to dislike this product.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you're looking for advanced threat protection and quick responses, it's definitely worth considering and take full advantage of its Sophos Central for better monitoring and control.
Pros
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Efficient Service
- Caring
Kyle l.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Dec 2024
A Security Powerhouse for Developers
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Sophos Firewall from other similar products?
It provides a single dashboard to monitor both, ensuring cohesive protection—a critical feature in a software development environment where sensitive client data is exchanged.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
In our development company, it flagged suspicious traffic from a misconfigured CI/CD pipeline trying to access unauthorized resources, which we resolved before any damage occurred.
What do you dislike most about this product?
setting up custom policies for our staging and production environments required considerable trial and error to align with our workflows.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Sophos Firewall is great for engineering teams that need robust security with visibility across endpoints and networks
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Enables Productivity
- Efficient Service
- Effective Service
