Name: Sophos Cloud Web Gateway (discontinued)
Rating: 7 (11 reviews)
Author: Discontinued Products

Customer Success

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Agile Development

Functional Testing

Image Recognition

Java Technologies

Service Mesh

Development

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

Data Extraction

Dropshipping

Email Spam Filter

Emissions Management

Privacy Policy Generators

Enterprise

Accounting

Digital Banking

Finance and Accounting

401(k)

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

HR Compliance

HR Management

Payroll

Relocation

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

Application Infrastructure

Cloud Storage

Data Deduplication

Data Privacy Management

Data Science

DevSecOps

Ethernet Switches

Fraud Detection

Governance, Risk & Compliance

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

IoT Device Management

Managed Private Cloud

Migration

Network Performance Monitoring

Sensitive Data Discovery

Testing Services

User Virtualization

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Audience Intelligence

Content Management

Digital Content Creation

Email Marketing

Market Intelligence

Marketing Automation

Social Media Advertising

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

URL Shorteners

Web Analytics

Marketing

Meeting Room Booking

Project Management

Professional Services

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Government Contracting

Sales Acceleration

Sales Engagement

Sales

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)

Security

Animation

Digital Forensics

Geographic Information

Insurance Suites

PCB Design

Physical Therapy

Tax Practice Management

Vertical-Specific

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Trial and error

Registration process

New one

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Administrative side

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Web gateway

Type of content

Set up

High availability

Admin portal

Extra cost

Active directory

Virtual appliance

Specific groups

Web filtering

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We currently use Sophos Web Gateway as our proxy server at our enterprise. Every user's internet traffic goes through the gateway. This allows us to control what kinds of sites employees may visit, making sure they're business appropriate, review this data, and adjust as necessary. In addition, it acts as another defense against malware, since it scans sites and downloads for anything malicious.

Web filtering: This is the primary purpose of Web Gateway, and it does it very well. It uses Sophos' external database to check URLs against the type of content on a website, and then based on the rules we've set up in the admin portal, allows or blocks it. It alerts IT when a user attempts to view blocked content. And, just in case, it also lets us override specific sets, either explicitly, or by re-categorizing.
SSL Checking: Web Gateway works on encrypted traffic as well, so even HTTPS sites are filtered appropriately. It verifies certificate authorities too.
Groups: Web Gateway can tie into Active Directory, so you can set specific groups to behave differently. For example, our public information department requires access to social media whereas we block that for most users. But with the group settings, PIO has a separate rule that allows them to post and respond to social media.

Administrator Permissions: There's not enough granularity on the administrative side. We ran into an issue where we wanted to restrict junior admins from being able to see traffic per user. But in doing so, it also prevented them from adusting some other settings they had to have access to, like setting exceptions for sites.
CA Database: I occasionally run into issues where the list of certificate authorities in the appliance is not up to date, and I have to manually add a CA. These aren't rare, never-heard-of authorities, either, but they are usually subsidiaries of one of the major ones.
Feedback: Sometimes it takes some good detective skills to track down why a legitimate site isn't working. It's often because of content hosted elsewhere (images, for example), but the reports aren't always clear as to what actually gets blocked. It takes some trial and error sometimes to unblock something that should be okay for our business.

We have not had a single instance of malware since installing Web Gateway. We have other ways to prevent infections and attacks, of course, so this is just one tool in the box, but we had a handful before this from people visiting sites they should not have. Web Gateway has prevented those, at least.
There was some pushback initially as users had to deal with some business sites not working (usually due to CA problems). After the initial growing pains, however, we've seen very few other problems.
The appliance updates itself, in the middle of the night, so that reduces some overhead and planned downtime.

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Sophos Web Security Gateway seamlessly integrates with an organization's needs creating an impenetrable barrier for inside users to correctly use the Internet. There are hundreds and hundreds of categories for IT and Admins to register and control. Also, the physical or virtual implementation helps IT Admins to lower costs when needed and deploy the software easily.

When IT Admins need to deploy virtually.
When IT Admins want to have high availability without an extra cost (via the Virtual Appliance Deployment).
When IT Admins want to control and give the internet fair use within the organization.

The registration process with Sophos sometimes has issues with the installation key.
The registration key can't be changed after installation. They should allow for placing a new one.
When renewing the system it's almost impossible for the end-user to place a new key. You need a high-level engineer to do this.

Pricing flexibility against competitors is a great positive impact.
Deployment options are always a great positive impact.
Our CTO and IT Departments have seen ROI in less than a year. We have noticed an increase in overall productivity from co-workers once we took control over the internet and connectivity.

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Sophos Cloud Web Gateway (discontinued)

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What is Sophos Cloud Web Gateway (discontinued)?