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
98 Plan to Renew
82 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+93 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
- Security Protects
- Acts with Integrity
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Sophos Firewall Reviews
Oluwanbe O.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Insurance
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Sep 2022
Great firewall product
Likeliness to Recommend
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
Submitted Jul 2022
Good Defense but sometimes Overprotective
Likeliness to Recommend
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
Claire T.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jun 2022
Secured our infrastructure including server
Likeliness to Recommend
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
