Sophos SG Firewall Appliances

Sophos SG Firewall Appliances

Sophos SG Firewall Appliances

31 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Sophos SG Firewall Appliances	Score 8.4 out of 10	N/A	Sophos SG Firewall Appliances are designed to provide optimal protection for organizations of all sixes from small remote offices, to global organizations requiring high-availability and	N/A

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Community Pulse
	Sophos SG Firewall Appliances
Considered Both Products	Sophos SG Firewall Appliances PT Pratik Tarmale Network Engineer Chose Sophos SG Firewall Appliances We decided to go with Sophos SG Firewall because it is more cost-effective solution than Fortinet FortiGate Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Sophos SG Firewall Appliances We use Sophos in conjunction with WatchGuard, for an extra added level of security. Sophos is a little more sophisticated and complicated but they work well together as added layers of protection against most cyber threats. Incentivized Helpful? Bryan Baker Director of IT Operations Chose Sophos SG Firewall Appliances I selected Sophos SG Firewall over Cisco and Barracuda because of cost. Sophos SG Firewall is very aggressive and offers competitive pricing when compared to Cisco and Barracuda. My rating scale would go however: Cisco 1, Barracuda 2 and Sophos SG Firewall 3 with regards to … Incentivized Helpful? VY Vishnu Yadav IT executive Chose Sophos SG Firewall Appliances We choose the Sophos SG firewall due to the better price offered by the Vendor. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Team Lead Chose Sophos SG Firewall Appliances It certainly stacks up well as it is very competitive in the pricing segment while having all the features that an ideal NGFW should possess. Basic functionalities like Network Firewall, Proxy and VPN work flawlessly while advanced features like IPS perform reasonably well. The … Incentivized Helpful? Sachin Vinay Network Administrator Chose Sophos SG Firewall Appliances Both are equally good when comparing the features, FortiGate has a better dashboard while Sophos SG Firewall Appliances has good vpn texhniques.Overall price was better for Sophos SG Firewall Appliances,So we considered this for our Remote Branch Location . Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Consultant Chose Sophos SG Firewall Appliances Sophos does hold its ground against its main competitor which is Fortinet in their respective markets in my opinion. Sophos does excel in some key areas like support and antivirus. But compared to mammoths like your Zscaler and Palo's which are designed for large-scale … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Sophos SG Firewall Appliances

Firewall

Comparison of Firewall features of Product A and Product B
	Sophos SG Firewall Appliances 9.2 9 Ratings 7% above category average
Identification Technologies	9.49 Ratings
Visualization Tools	8.29 Ratings
Content Inspection	9.69 Ratings
Policy-based Controls	9.09 Ratings
Active Directory and LDAP	9.29 Ratings
Firewall Management Console	8.29 Ratings
Reporting and Logging	9.49 Ratings
VPN	9.89 Ratings
High Availability	9.49 Ratings
Stateful Inspection	9.49 Ratings
Proxy Server	9.47 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Sophos SG Firewall Appliances
Likelihood to Recommend	8.6 (9 ratings)
Usability	8.8 (5 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Sophos SG Firewall Appliances
Likelihood to Recommend	Sophos It is well-suited for all sizes of organizations. It will help them to safeguard their network from various cyber threats like ransomware, phishing, malware, etc. It will provide them with many features like deep packet inspection, web filtering, application control, etc. in one place. It will also help them optimize bandwidth usage Incentivized PT Pratik Tarmale Network Engineer Read full review
Pros	Sophos It helps you to protect your corporate network and data from external cyber threats. It provides you with with advanced features like load balancing, web and app access, etc., to optimize bandwidth uses. It enables you to configure an IPsec VPN to access organization resources remotely. Incentivized VY Vishnu Yadav IT executive Read full review
Cons	Sophos We would like more feature reach port blocking. This could be reorganized to make it easier on Network Admins to add or change ports. I would like easier access to the CLI I would like it to perform faster Incentivized Bryan Baker Director of IT Operations Read full review
Usability	Sophos Management could use some improvements. Sophos management and workflows has always been designed by Engineers for Engineers. They do not always follow logical workflows in the real world. Once you figure this out it is easier to use but no where as smooth as many other products on the market. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Sophos The biggest selling point for sophos is their vendor support. Those guys put a smile on our faces. There are multiple ways you can contact their support like chat, or telephone or email. They are very responsive and they do have very knowledgable and patient support staff. We have raised tickets at all odd hours and they have been addressed correctly Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Sophos We use Sophos in conjunction with WatchGuard, for an extra added level of security. Sophos is a little more sophisticated and complicated but they work well together as added layers of protection against most cyber threats. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Sophos Positive ROI due to the competitiveness of the product. Positive impact as the device is fully functional and easy to operate. Negative impact when it comes to log integration as it does not support industry logging standards. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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