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Sophos Firewall

Composite Score
8.2 /10
CX Score
8.4 /10
Category
Sophos Firewall
8.2 /10

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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Sophos Firewall Ratings

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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.

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

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.

+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?

2% Negative
9% Neutral
89% Positive

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Respectful
  • Includes Product Enhancements
  • Acts with Integrity

Feature Ratings

Average 83

Web Content Filtering

84

Virtual Firewall

84

Application Control

83

Virtual Private Network

83

Network Access Control

83

Encrypted Data Control

83

Advanced Threat Protection

82

Off Premise Cloud Firewalls

81

Sandboxing

81

Identity Based Control

81

DLP Functionality

75

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 80

Ease of IT Administration

84

Ease of Implementation

84

Usability and Intuitiveness

81

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

81

Quality of Features

81

Vendor Support

80

Ease of Data Integration

80

Business Value Created

80

Breadth of Features

79

Ease of Customization

79

Availability and Quality of Training

77

Sophos Firewall Reviews

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

Lisa G.

  • Role: Finance
  • Industry: Finance
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2022

An innovative idea to secure the network

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Sophos Firewall from other similar products?

I adore their advanced features for instance web filtering, app filtering, user-based policies to limit web and application uses, bandwidth restrictions according to our policy, load balancing, and many more are included, and they assist us to meet practically all network security requirements. Mainly Sophos Firewall is assisting us in defending our corporate network against outside cyberattacks.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Sophos Firewall has provided a pretty consistent experience. The UI information is quite clear, with no need for a manual or training. One of the most important aspects is the ability to incorporate other Sophos products into this. It is simple to use, and the training supplied by them is really beneficial to those who are new to this product. It makes it easy to set up, monitor, and control our network resources on a daily basis, and it includes features such as alerts and backup management to make administration easier.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The absence of third-party integration is the one thing I don't like. Second, when we implement any modifications we made, there is a slight delay; it takes time to implement the changes. A few minor features, such as the capability to remove DHCP leases or restart APs, need to be upgraded. With their assistance, technical support might have been improved. They take longer to respond to our concerns than they should.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Sophos Firewall is ideal for medium and large-scale infrastructures with various departments. Sophos Firewall contains a plethora of functions so check their features and compare them to your needs if it matches then have it our organization makes extensive use of the encryption function. I have faith in its capacity to keep the network secure. The Sophos Firewall features an easy-to-use interface and a robust interface, and it is secure.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Trustworthy

Claire T.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2022

Secured our infrastructure including server

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Sophos Firewall from other similar products?

For our organization, the main aim was the security of our important endpoints, routers, and servers and I find Sophos Firewall extremely useful to work in an incredibly secure platform. It requires some training to utilize it with full functionality but I appreciate it because that knowledge was very helpful for us.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

First of all, we chose Sophos Firewall for handling remote VPN and multifactor authentication. We also use the Sophos Firewall to build VLANs across other departments. Various features including load balancing, IPsec, and website access limitations aid in the effective management of an organization's network. I like Sophos Firewall's simplicity since the initial setting of the box is quite straightforward; anyone with minimal technical experience can simply do it.

What do you dislike most about this product?

While using this platform I initially had to face difficulty configuring it. Instead of being centralized in one place, most of the configuration requires accessing several different areas. The firewall will not function effectively when the Pc is heated up or has a high temperature and this is not a minor issue that we can avoid.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Sophos Firewall is the only one when it comes to security on all levels, monitoring, management, user-friendliness, and, most importantly, cost savings as compared to other platforms. Its load-balancing function is my favorite. Load balancing can be used instead of a primary or secondary gateway, allowing us to use both primary and secondary lines concurrently.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity

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