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
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Sophos XG Firewall
Score 7.5 out of 10
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Sophos XG Firewall provides comprehensive next-generation firewall protection powered by deep learning and Synchronized Security. The vendor states XG Firewall supplies unmatched insights and exposes hidden user, application, and threat risks on the network, and say the product is differentiated by its ability to respond automatically to security incidents by isolating compromised systems, with Security Heartbeat™.
If you are looking for an advanced cyber threat protection solution for your organization, it is the perfect choice for you. It is one of Sophos's most reliable and secure firewall solutions that will safeguard your organization's resources from the latest cyber threats. It will also provide advanced features like load balancing, IP sec VPN, restriction to web and app access, etc.
This is the best product for small-size organizations with a low budget that want advanced and deep-level security features. Sandboxing and advanced malware protection are the most valuable features available on Sophos devices. Other features like applications and web content make your organization more secure, and you can put more restrictions on users.
Sophos did come a long way from the time they bought out Cyberoam. But the thing with Sophos is it is concentrated on SMBs. You cannot put a Sophos Firewall on a very large organization with thousands of users because the hardware simply cannot take that much load. They normally fall flat against the likes of Palo Alto's or Fortinet's when it comes to large enterprises. But with the world moving to cloud and remote working being a thing I doubt it would be an issue.
If you do a side-by-side comparison I always felt Sophos Firewall breaks faster under load compared to Fortinet Firewall on an OS level. For example, Fortinet devices are like once you set it up it will keep doing what it's supposed to do until you change it. But Sophos Firewall configs do seem to give problems when you are hammering your firewall. But if the firewall does break you have wonderful support which will assist you to fix the issues.
Very poor Ansible Support. Most of the companies are heavily invested in DevOps and CICD. Sophos has very little support for Ansible compared to its peers. In this day and age, no one really wants to go into firewalls to make changes. Sophos really needs to invest in ansible support so that admins can simply write playbooks to get things done and add them to the CI/CD pipeline or Jenkins.
If using Endpoint security and the Firewall it would be nice to have an easier back and forth between the portals rather than have two separate tabs open. Especially if using more than one in multiple locations.
If dealing with different revisions options are moved around and sometimes in places that doesn't normally seem like they should be there.
It is one of the most reliable and secure firewall solutions from Sophos to safeguard your organization's resources from external cyber threats. It is an excellent tool to optimize bandwidth and link utilization. It is easy to use and configure.
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
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 .
We have been a Sophos customer for the most part but i have seen some other offerings from SonicWall, Barracuda, and Cisco. While they all offer nice products, we've always been content with our Sophos XG firewalls, especially as they release more and more features/etc.
