Cisco Firepower 2100 Series vs Sophos XG Firewall

Likelihood to Recommend

The Cisco [Firepower] 2100 [Series] is an easy sell for anyone looking. You already know Cisco excels in the security department, but now that firepower lives right on the box and inline with the rest of the firewall data flow you can save yourself a lot of time and headaches. Unless you cant quite afford Cisco's 2100 line, there's not much reason to go with the competition.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Government Administration Company, 501-1000 employees

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In the SMB space [Sophos XG Firewall] can be very well received and utilized, even without a dedicated IT staff. Larger companies can use it as well but I feel there are better options as the company scales up.

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Mike Goularte

IT Technician

Briarpatch Food CoopRetail, 51-200 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Cisco Firepower 2100 Series

Sophos XG Firewall

Identification Technologies

Content Inspection

Policy-based Controls

Active Directory and LDAP

Firewall Management Console

Reporting and Logging

VPN

High Availability

Stateful Inspection

Proxy Server

Visualization Tools

Pros

Nice HTML5 web interface instead of the old java client
Many added features over the ASA
Firepower built in and faster than before

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Engineer in Information Technology

Government Administration Company, 501-1000 employees

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Remote 2FA authentication
Controls the user web and application access.
Shows all the activities in the dash board.
Making remote site to site SSL VPN.

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nawas khan

Network Engineer

Alshalawi International HoldingsTransportation/Trucking/Railroad, 201-500 employees

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Cons

Cisco patches bugs quickly but patches are slow to install and reboot
Smart licensing is getting better but still can be troublesome
Some weird visual interface glitches that require clicking the same options a few extra times

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Engineer in Information Technology

Government Administration Company, 501-1000 employees

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Mobile app is needed for IT folks.

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Manager in Information Technology

Chemicals Company, 501-1000 employees

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Usability

No score

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Sophos XG Firewall 9.0

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It is a good and pleasant experience to use Sophos XG firewall and it offers more then what we expect and the price is ok in the current market level

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nawas khan

Network Engineer

Alshalawi International HoldingsTransportation/Trucking/Railroad, 201-500 employees

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Support Rating

No score

No answers yet

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Sophos XG Firewall 9.5

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Honestly we didn't get the premium support from them, but our partner has been supportive. Online forums are also a good place to learn things from.

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Chemicals Company, 501-1000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

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The firewall that was in use at the first location before expanding was a cheaply made open source box that couldn't do much even as a basic firewall. We had looked at various companies but came to the conclusion that Sophos was the right fit for us and it has been that way for years now.

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Mike Goularte

IT Technician

Briarpatch Food CoopRetail, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

Simplifying our lives by reducing our time spent in a console
Being comfortable knowing the full might of Cisco is safeguarding your network
A good excuse to bump up the IT budget in the next fiscal year!

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Government Administration Company, 501-1000 employees

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It helped mitigate a potential DDOS attack.
Being able to easily create VLANs and then utilize DHCP to push out IPs are valuable tools to have when dealing with compliance situations.

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Mike Goularte

IT Technician

Briarpatch Food CoopRetail, 51-200 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Cisco Firepower 2100 Series Editions & Modules

Edition

Firepower 2100	3,000-20,000¹

per appliance

Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Sophos XG Firewall Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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Rating Summary

Cisco Firepower 2100 Series

Sophos XG Firewall

Cisco Firepower 2100 Series

Sophos XG Firewall

Cisco Firepower 2100 Series

Sophos XG Firewall