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
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Encrypted Data Control
Advanced Threat Protection
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Sophos Firewall Reviews
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: Initial Implementation
Submitted Jul 2023
Its simply a fantastic product
Likeliness to Recommend
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Rogba A.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: Vendor Management and Renewal
Submitted Jul 2023
Powerful Protection and Performance
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Sophos Firewall from other similar products?
Powered by industry-leading AI, with protection that is on by default
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Expose Hidden Risks. Superior visibility into risky activity
What do you dislike most about this product?
Less documents available. Sophos should work on these issues.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Expose Hidden Risks. Superior visibility into risky activity, suspicious traffic, and advanced threats help you regain control of your networks.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Ian B.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Jun 2023
Secure and Reliable Firewall
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Sophos Firewall from other similar products?
Sophos has been our provider of firewalls for multiple clients for years. It has been reliable and has not allowed and virus or ransomware outbreaks while we had in use. They have been our number one source for firewall solutions mainly due to the relationship we have built with their sales and support staff.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The administrative console is easy to navigate and allows us to make NAT and firewall rules quickly. We like the web interface and is easy to teach to other techs. The security issues are patched very quickly when there is a vulnerability detected. We like how we can manage the firewalls from the sophos management portal.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The support cases can sometimes sit without a reply. We have had a few instances where the firmware updates made the firewall lose it's configuration. We have had to be careful now when we update as it has been causing issues with applications and also with HA availability. The logs do not show all the connection issues that can arise. The knowledge base articles are too vague and are not updated regularly.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Take the time to look into all the firewall options available. Check on pricing and see what would best fit the need of the client. Take training courses or look into resources online to gain knowledge of Sophos firewall before you put into production. Check firewall reviews and see which ones have performed best against certain scenarios.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Acts with Integrity
- Client's Interest First
