NordLayer vs. Sophos NAC Advanced (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
NordLayer
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
NordLayer provides cybersecurity tools for businesses of any size or work model developed by the standard of NordVPN. NordLayer helps organizations secure networks and enhance internet security and modernizes network and resource access with technical improvements aligning with the best regulatory compliance standards. Helping organizations to adopt FWaaS, ZTNA, and SWG principles, NordLayer is focused on the Security Service Edge of cybersecurity services.…
$8
per month if Yearly plan per user
Sophos NAC Advanced (discontinued)
Score 5.2 out of 10
N/A
UK-based Sophos provided Network Access Control technology. Sophos NAC Advanced has been discontinued since 2013.N/A
Pricing
NordLayerSophos NAC Advanced (discontinued)
Editions & Modules
Lite
$8
per month if Yearly plan per user
Core
$11
per month if Yearly plan per user
Premium
$14
per month if Yearly plan per user
Custom
x
per month if Yearly plan per user
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
NordLayerSophos NAC Advanced (discontinued)
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Score 9.9 out of 10
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Enterprises
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Score 9.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
NordLayerSophos NAC Advanced (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(5 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
NordLayerSophos NAC Advanced (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
Nord Security
NordLayer has become an invaluable resource for our security posture and day-to-day activity. The primary use case is preventing staff members from accessing sensitive resources on an unencrypted connection, applying NordLayer and conditional access policies in congruency. The ability to create teams and assigned them to specific dedicated servers is also helpful and allows for further security segmentation
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Sophos Network Access Control would be most effective in an enterprise environment where there are many different groups of users, including guest users because it has the ability to block unauthorized users and control the access of guest users. It would not be well suited for an environment with less than 1000 users because as far as I know, the license requires at least that many users.
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Pros
Nord Security
  • Easy to use
  • Simple user interface desgin
  • Support many VPN protocol
  • Fast and reliable connection
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  • Provides enforcement of security policies for Windows PCs
  • As part of the Sophos Security Suite provides outstanding protection from viruses
  • Uses a very nice web-based GUI
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Cons
Nord Security
  • The browser plugin needs some work, or some research about what browser/OS restrictions may limit its functionality. Ours does not work at all even after contacting support so we do not use it
  • Toast/Windows notifications scheduled or deployed through admin center would be amazing. The ability to remind a user who has been disconnected for X hours would be a great feature
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  • Customer support was basically non-existent during the time we needed it the most. This should be #1 priority for any company.
  • Lack of support for Linux servers and Mac OS
  • The reporting system relies on information provided by the agents
  • Wide scale removal process needs some vast improvements. When using a batch removal script, it wrecks the NIC drivers to the point that they have to be removed and reinstalled.
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Alternatives Considered
Nord Security
easy configuration and use case
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Discontinued Products
I have used Mcafee Antivirus Suite, Trend Micro, and Vipre Antivirus. I actually had more experience with Vipre than anything else so that is the one that I will be comparing it too. From what I remember, Vipre was more expensive but had better customer support. Other than that, they both do pretty much thing as well as what all the others do. I personally do not believe that any enterprise level antivirus solution is better than any other, it boils down to which one can your company afford, and which one fits best with your needs.
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Return on Investment
Nord Security
  • Improved sercurity
  • Incresed productivity
  • Performance impact
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  • Positive -- We were able to control guest users access
  • Positive -- Using the entire Sophos Security Suite I only remember one major virus while I was with the company which saves on downtime, and IT man hours
  • Negative -- The time we spent removing this, and reinstalling NIC drivers because the removal process crashed them cost the company in IT man hours.
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