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Lumen Edge Private Cloud vs. Sophos Web Content Filtering

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Lumen Edge Private Cloud

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ALumen® Edge Private Cloud helps manage digital workloads and cloud ecosystems at scale. It is used to increase workload performance while accelerating innovation by optimizing latency‑sensitive apps with scalable private cloud computing and storage.N/A

    Sophos Web Content Filtering

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AUK headquartered Sophos offers web content filtering.N/A
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
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    User Testimonials
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    Lumen Technologies
    CenturyLink Private Cloud is well suited for companies that are smaller and wouldn't have to undergo scaling for a longer time. Apart from that, it does well in almost all categories. It wouldn't actually be useful for bigger companies since the UI is a bit laggy sometimes and usually, it's not advisable for big companies.
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    Sophos
    Before Sophos, I would receive scammers regarding tradeshow lists. People wanted me to pay for lists, but these people weren't actually from the tradeshows. I can now block those, and have received much fewer of those scams. I am also able to open emails within quarantine to view them before deleting, releasing, allowing, or blocking. I use this to my advantage, and am able to make better decisions on what to do with the emails.
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    Pros
    Lumen Technologies
    • robust framework
    • amazing customer support in case you're facing maintenance issues
    • collaborative ability is off the charts
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    Sophos
    • Sophos does an excellent job of category-based content filtering. It's easy to configure and flexible for many environments with the ability to tighten or loosen restrictions as requirements determing.
    • Sophos' built-in capabilites can force safe search rules to protect against content work-arounds like Image search and search engines in general.
    • The Sophos XTreme architecture also helps improve the overall performance of the Web Content Filtering solution. It is very quick and very transparent when in use on the network.
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    Cons
    Lumen Technologies
    • UI can be really improved, since it sometimes lags a lot
    • Very few know about the product, so they should advertise a bit more
    • There maybe scaling issues since it's a relatively smaller company compared to its competitors
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    Sophos
    • It only allows UTF-8 encoded characters.
    • It does not support metadata.
    • It does not support comments in the custom filter file.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Lumen Technologies
    It doesn't stack up that well against them, since these are big companies and have huge infrastructures and they provide smooth scaling features. However CenturyLink Private Cloud is a little concise and not many people know about it, so I feel like they should advertise more and try to improve their customer outreach.
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    Sophos
    Sophos has been a much easier product to configure and eventually manage, with preset rules and policies to start off right out of the box, saving administrators time from adding every category and or site. However you can add/import all know good company sites (internal url's) as well as local sites for a safer settings. (know sites)
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    Return on Investment
    Lumen Technologies
    • We reduced our cloud hosting costs a lot after switching to CenturyLink Private Cloud
    • Maintenance is very easy since there is documentation available for every part
    • It had some issues with the UI but we can neglect those considering the pricing options they provide.
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    Sophos
    • Super positive impact, the Sandstorming Add On, it increases protection at it's maximum level (for new or existent/variant threats).
    • Customers often have the need of a system capable of report everything that the network is being handed, Sophos Web Content Filtering achieves this.
    • The ROI is very fast since top management quickly see results on filtering and reporting of what is really going on within their networks.
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