Sophos Cloud Firewall (PAYG)
Sophos | 21.0 GALinux/Unix, Other 20.0 MR2 - 64-bit HAQM Machine Image (AMI)
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Best Next generation firewall for your business at affordable price
What do you like best about the product?
I most like its interface, which is very easy to use and understand compared to other firewalls. It is next-generation firewall with the best security features. It ensures the latest threat protection along with applications, web, and content control.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have not faced any single issue with XG firewall yet, so no point to dislike it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1) It helped us to manage and control web traffic in our organization.
2) It ensures advanced threat protection
3) We able to configure content-based web control for our organization.
4) It helped us to protect our emails from spam or phishing attack.
5) It's next-generation technology helped us to optimise internet uses for our organization.
2) It ensures advanced threat protection
3) We able to configure content-based web control for our organization.
4) It helped us to protect our emails from spam or phishing attack.
5) It's next-generation technology helped us to optimise internet uses for our organization.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Best next generation firewall
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Reliable and secured firewall from sophos
What do you like best about the product?
1) it is reliable and secured firewall from sophos.
2) it's IPsec features helped us to link our branches and offices without MPLS. Which saved our lot of money.
3) it's user friendly interface helps to understand and configure firewall faster.
2) it's IPsec features helped us to link our branches and offices without MPLS. Which saved our lot of money.
3) it's user friendly interface helps to understand and configure firewall faster.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't have any point to dislike sophos firewall.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1) cost effective solution compared to others.
2) it's frequent updates secures organization data from latest threat.
3) various features like load balancing, IPsec, website access restrictions help us to manage organization network efficiently.
4) we able to set bandwidth quota and speed user or device wise using firewall rule.
5) it helped to save money by using IPsec feature instead of MPLS.
6) we can utilise primary and backup line fully with its load balancing feature.
2) it's frequent updates secures organization data from latest threat.
3) various features like load balancing, IPsec, website access restrictions help us to manage organization network efficiently.
4) we able to set bandwidth quota and speed user or device wise using firewall rule.
5) it helped to save money by using IPsec feature instead of MPLS.
6) we can utilise primary and backup line fully with its load balancing feature.
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Protect your organization data with reliable and secured firewall
Advanced protection
What do you like best about the product?
1. The initial box configuration is very simple; even a person with some technical knowledge can configure this.
2. Simple and user-friendly web dashboard.
3. Log viewer is very responsive and has many filtering options for sorting packets.
4. Easy to know which user is accessing what application and website.
5. SSL VPN can be configured with fewer steps.
6. Throughput is decent even after applying all security profiles and inspections.
2. Simple and user-friendly web dashboard.
3. Log viewer is very responsive and has many filtering options for sorting packets.
4. Easy to know which user is accessing what application and website.
5. SSL VPN can be configured with fewer steps.
6. Throughput is decent even after applying all security profiles and inspections.
What do you dislike about the product?
1. Technical support is not that much responsive.
2. When device gets heat or device temperature is high, firewall will not respond properly.
2. When device gets heat or device temperature is high, firewall will not respond properly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1. Blocking unwanted traffic for users on LAN.
2. Accessing internal server from outside internet by configuring DNAT on Sophos.
3. Taking reports of the user data consumption.
4. Protecting servers on DMZ from outside attacks like brute force and port scannings.
2. Accessing internal server from outside internet by configuring DNAT on Sophos.
3. Taking reports of the user data consumption.
4. Protecting servers on DMZ from outside attacks like brute force and port scannings.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It has a good dashboard, and options are user-friendly; it is suitable for those who are less experienced with firewalls.
One of the best network security appliance for your organization
What do you like best about the product?
1) I most like it's load balancing feature. We can configure load balancing instead of primary or secondary gateway which helps to utilise both primary and secondary links simultenously.
2) quick load transfer to secondary if primary goes down.
3) we can manage source device traffic easily with the help of various firewall rule.
4) mac host features plays vital role in restricting traffic to specific device and users.
2) quick load transfer to secondary if primary goes down.
3) we can manage source device traffic easily with the help of various firewall rule.
4) mac host features plays vital role in restricting traffic to specific device and users.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't see any point to dislike sophos xg firewall
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1) It assures latest threat protection.
2) we able to configure mac id level access to our network
3) its load balancing feature helped us to manage load on both active links and utilise them fully.
4) it's firewall rule feature helped us to manage traffic, web access, bandwidth etc. user and device wise.
5) easy to use and user friendly.
6) it's quick alert on email on link down help us to raise ticket with respective ISP.
2) we able to configure mac id level access to our network
3) its load balancing feature helped us to manage load on both active links and utilise them fully.
4) it's firewall rule feature helped us to manage traffic, web access, bandwidth etc. user and device wise.
5) easy to use and user friendly.
6) it's quick alert on email on link down help us to raise ticket with respective ISP.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Looking for secured and reliable network security appliance for your organisation go for it
Cost Effective next generation firewall for Small / Medium size organizations.
What do you like best about the product?
Following are the most beneficial features for the Sophos XG firewall:
1. Nice interactive dashboard covering all the information on a single screen.
2. Reports and log monitoring to analyze traffic and threat mapping.
3. Features such as Web and application protection helps to make the network secure.
4. Sophos Central Synchronization helps to synchronize Sophos XG Firewall with all the endpoints and helps in the automatic device isolation in case if a device is infected.
1. Nice interactive dashboard covering all the information on a single screen.
2. Reports and log monitoring to analyze traffic and threat mapping.
3. Features such as Web and application protection helps to make the network secure.
4. Sophos Central Synchronization helps to synchronize Sophos XG Firewall with all the endpoints and helps in the automatic device isolation in case if a device is infected.
What do you dislike about the product?
Device configuration needs to be more user-friendly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Following tasks has performed by Sophos XG Firewall:
1. Network and Web protection of all devices in the network.
2. Intrusion Prevention and Application Filtering.
3. Routing and VPN for office network.
1. Network and Web protection of all devices in the network.
2. Intrusion Prevention and Application Filtering.
3. Routing and VPN for office network.
Easy to deploy and work
What do you like best about the product?
1. Initial setup of the device is very easy.
2. Easily understandable graphical user Interface
3. Easy to configure Dynamic NAT and Static NAT policies
4. Configuration of remote access and site-to-site VPN is very easy.
5. Provides excellent log visibility in the log viewer tab.
2. Easily understandable graphical user Interface
3. Easy to configure Dynamic NAT and Static NAT policies
4. Configuration of remote access and site-to-site VPN is very easy.
5. Provides excellent log visibility in the log viewer tab.
What do you dislike about the product?
1. Technical documents are not very much available.
2.Poor customer support.
3. GUI loads slowly when initially connecting to it.
2.Poor customer support.
3. GUI loads slowly when initially connecting to it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1. Blocking adult content, shopping, social networking access for the users to increase productivity.
2. Securing endpoints with strict security policies
3. Providing DHCP to the clients connected.
4. Accessing internal servers using remote access SSL VPN service.
2. Securing endpoints with strict security policies
3. Providing DHCP to the clients connected.
4. Accessing internal servers using remote access SSL VPN service.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Reasonable price recommended to others which concerns about cost.
Good Security "Sophos"
What do you like best about the product?
One of the significant features is we can integrate other products of Sophos into this. Easy to use and the training provided by them is very useful for the people who is new to this product. They do have a trial version for noncommercial usage. We can easily manage our organization's peripherals and users under one dashboard.It is also cost efficient.
What do you dislike about the product?
Technical Support could have been better with their support. Turnaround time they take to reply back to our issues takes longer.
It also failed to generate logs at times.
It also failed to generate logs at times.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were using Sophos earlier to maintain our organization's security standards and data security. We have also integrated a VPN service to work from home users to connect organization networks.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
People looking to enhance their network security can give out a try to this firewall. It does have multiple security features which come cost-effectively.
Best Product for SMB Networks
What do you like best about the product?
Provide the best security for Small and Medium businesses.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some features are not available like advanced routing on Firewall
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is helping Small and medium customers by providing security who are not in a position to spend much amount on securing their infrastructure
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Recommended for Small and medium businesses
User-friendly and Secure
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to deploy and easy to configure the device. easy to write policies for blocking and allowing certain URLs. and it provides good security
What do you dislike about the product?
there is some delay when we apply any changes we made, it takes time to apply the changes
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Mainly security of endpoint devices and remote access of servers.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
easy to use. go for it.
Amazing for the small it departments
What do you like best about the product?
Amazing for the small it departments. Very easy to deploy and manage while providing great protection. To do not need a whole SOC to manage and monitor these.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not much, very good option. I do wish that the web admin exceptions supported FQDN's like their UTM to make remote support easy and secure from a dynamic remote IP address.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Really reduced the total cost of ownership without lowering our level of protection.
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