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
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97 Plan to Renew
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83 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+91 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?
Pros
- Reliable
- Respectful
- Includes Product Enhancements
- Acts with Integrity
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Feature Ratings
Web Content Filtering
Virtual Firewall
Application Control
Virtual Private Network
Network Access Control
Encrypted Data Control
Advanced Threat Protection
Off Premise Cloud Firewalls
Sandboxing
Identity Based Control
DLP Functionality
Vendor Capability Ratings
Ease of IT Administration
Ease of Implementation
Usability and Intuitiveness
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Quality of Features
Vendor Support
Ease of Data Integration
Business Value Created
Breadth of Features
Ease of Customization
Availability and Quality of Training
Sophos Firewall Reviews
Ramon V.
- Role: C-Level
- Industry: Food and Beverage
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Mar 2021
Very reliable product that has great pricing!
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Sophos Firewall from other similar products?
The thing that I liked the most when comparing with other brands was that Sophos included all the features of the firewall with one license. In other brands you had to purchase features separately with different licenses. Also they allow to have 2 firewalls for redundancy without the need to buy licenses twice.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It integrates fully with our sophos endpoint and it can all be administered from the cloud with one console.
What do you dislike most about this product?
There is really nothing that I dislike about it.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Always check against the competition since offers change every couple of months or every year. Also check what other products from the vendor you might need or have. For example with Sophos, we manage firewall, wifi and endpoint all from the same console. This makes administration of the whole solution easier and from one central console. This like this should always be taken into consideration when buying something like this that should last at least 5 years.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
- Efficient Service
José O.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Chemicals
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Nov 2020
A Firewall of respect and good features.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Sophos Firewall from other similar products?
The great differential of this product is the low acquisition cost combined with the technologies embedded in this next generation firewall. With Sophos we were able to buy superior and more robust equipment for the price of a competitor's entry. Support and warranty are excellent and very efficient as well.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
We have two Sophos XG appliances in a redundant active / standby scenario to avoid any type of failure and the network can always be secure. I like a lot of things in this device, but what attracted me the most is its infinite advanced features with a graphical interface that is easy to use and read the data. Everything is very well detailed and you feel in complete control of the network. It is able to block applications, websites, malware, URLs and everything that is necessary for the good functioning of the network.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The experience has been great for Sophos in a redundancy scenario. So far we have not faced any serious technical problems and we do not need to open a ticket with support. Everything works ok and without problems. I have no complaints yet.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I advise you to check the license packages with advanced protection and sandboxing to protect against attacks by various malware. It is interesting to have warranty contracts of at least 3 years also to avoid headaches.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Abdul (Alex) H.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Nov 2020
Easy to use Fantastic product
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Sophos Firewall from other similar products?
This is great product easy to manage easy to deploy, Sophos itself help to deploy their product
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Cost, Manageability and customer service and their engineers are great
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing, Everything is great
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Dont THINK just go for it.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
