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Sophos

Sophos Firewall

Composite Score

8.5 /10

CX Score

8.8 /10

105 Reviews Write a Review

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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Awards & Recognition

Sophos Firewall won the following awards in the Next Generation Firewall category

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2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

Latest Award, 2024

Strategy and Innovation
Contract Negotiation

Latest Award, 2024

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2024

0 Top Rated Capabilities

1 Top Rated Features

2024

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023

Contract Negotiation

2023

2021 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2021

2020 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2020

Sophos Firewall Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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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.

88 Likeliness to Recommend

Up 1
Since last award

97 Plan to Renew

82 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Down 1
Since last award

Product Experience

Negotiation and Contract

Conflict Resolution

Strategy & Innovation

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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

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Sophos Firewall?

2% Negative

6% Neutral

92% Positive

Pros

Reliable
Respectful
Security Protects
Acts with Integrity

Feature Ratings

Average 81

Web Content Filtering

Virtual Private Network

Virtual Firewall

Advanced Threat Protection

Network Access Control

Application Control

Off Premise Cloud Firewalls

Sandboxing

Identity Based Control

Encrypted Data Control

DLP Functionality

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 79

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Implementation

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Data Integration

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Vendor Support

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Business Value Created

Ease of Customization

Availability and Quality of Training

Sophos Firewall Reviews

Mohd I.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2022

Great options with affordable prices.

Likeliness to Recommend

7 /10

What differentiates Sophos Firewall from other similar products?

Sophos firewall is the least preferred firewall in our portfolio, while choosing a firewall as this does not have a brand value as big as Cisco, Palo Alto, Checkpoint, Fortinet.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

This is the most affordable product of the lot, so this makes It a best base to go with this product for Small and medium businesses.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Product troubleshooting is some times makes difficulties as technical support is not as mature as Cisco and others.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If you are running a small or medium size business, then it will serve your purpose with affrdability.

Pros

Reliable
Continually Improving Product
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity

Oluwanbe O.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Insurance
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Sep 2022

Great firewall product

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Sophos Firewall from other similar products?

Cost is fairly reasonable

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Easy to use, setting up policies and rules is pretty easy and straightforward

What do you dislike most about this product?

Documentation of the product is scare on the internet

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Great product at reasonable cost

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Tanmay G.

Role: Student Academic
Industry: Education
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2022

Good Defense but sometimes Overprotective

Likeliness to Recommend

7 /10

What differentiates Sophos Firewall from other similar products?

Sophos Firewall is like a unbreakable barrier for internet security as well as internal firewall. Switching from internally developed network security solution to sophos has increased our productivity tremendously.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Its protection from external threat and easy to implement network policies.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Sophos becomes a pain in large setup when it imposes extra restrictions for few users, due to the network behavior of a relatively smaller fraction of users,

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Sophos is quite effective especially for smaller scale setup.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Enables Productivity
Unique Features

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Awards & Recognition

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2021 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2020 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Sophos Firewall Ratings

88 Likeliness to Recommend

Up 1 Since last award

97 Plan to Renew

82 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Down 1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

Emotional Footprint Overview

+92 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Sophos Firewall?

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Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Web Content Filtering Restrictive filtering of web surfing to limit exposure to harmful and inappropriate sites.

Virtual Private Network Offers IPSEC (for site-to-site tunnels) and SSL VPN (for remote access) options.

Virtual Firewall A VF runs entirely within a virtual environment and provides packet filtering and monitoring provided by a physical firewalls

Advanced Threat Protection ATP refers to a category of security solutions that defend against sophisticated malware or hacking-based attacks targeting sensitive data.

Network Access Control Endpoint integration to ensure each connecting device has appropriate security.

Application Control The solution provides ICAP support, anti-circumvention support, and an auto-record function of all traffic session details.

Off Premise Cloud Firewalls Firewall features offered as a service at lower cost and scalable infrastructure

Sandboxing Sandboxing is a software management strategy that isolates applications from critical system resources and other programs and tests its contents

Identity Based Control Mapping of specific security policies to defined user groups and individuals.

Encrypted Data Control Native decryption and re-encryption of SSL and SFTP traffic for thorough inspection.

DLP Functionality The solution provides DLP functionality consisting of sensitive data detection with multiple enforcement actions.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Sophos Firewall Reviews

Mohd I.

Great options with affordable prices.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Oluwanbe O.

Great firewall product

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Tanmay G.

Good Defense but sometimes Overprotective

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Web Content Filtering

Virtual Private Network

Virtual Firewall

Advanced Threat Protection

Network Access Control

Application Control

Off Premise Cloud Firewalls

Sandboxing

Identity Based Control

Encrypted Data Control

DLP Functionality

Vendor Capability Ratings

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Implementation

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Data Integration

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Vendor Support

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Business Value Created

Ease of Customization

Availability and Quality of Training