Name: Sophos SG Firewall Appliances
Rating: 8.5 (31 reviews)
Author: Sophos

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Enterprise

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Cryptocurrency Wallets

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Corporate Learning Management

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Workforce Analytics

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Human Resources

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

Cloud Storage

Complex Event Processing

Converged Infrastructure

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Data Masking

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Network Performance Monitoring

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Product Intelligence

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

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Marketing

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Customer Communication Management

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

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Data-Centric Audit Protection (DCAP)

Intrusion Detection

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Security

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Sophos SG Firewall Appliances

Firewalls are designed to block unauthorized access to and from networks, but chiefly to stop Internet users from accessing private networks.

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Identification Technologies

Visualization Tools

Content Inspection

Policy-based Controls

Active Directory and LDAP

Firewall Management Console

Reporting and Logging

High Availability

Stateful Inspection

Proxy Server

Sophos evolves to meet every new challenge, protecting more than 400,000 organizations of all sizes in more than 150 countries from today’s most advanced cyberthreats. Powered by SophosLabs, our cloud-native and AI-enhanced solutions are able to adapt and evolve to secure endpoints and networks against never-before-seen cybercriminal tactics and techniques. Managed through our award-winning, cloud-based platform, Sophos Central, our best-of-breed products work together through our unique Synchronized Security system to share threat intelligence and respond to evolving threats. The Sophos suite of products secures networks and endpoints against automated and active-adversary breaches, ransomware, malware, exploits, data exfiltration, phishing, and more.

A firewall is a filter that stands between a computer or computer network and the Internet. Each firewall can be programmed to keep specific traffic in or out

Policy-based visibility and control over applications, users and content

Visualization tools present administrators with data on applications traversing the network, who is using them, and the potential security impact.

Inspecting permitted application traffic by means of threat prevention, URL filtering and data filtering

Firewall policy controls enable administrators to create firewall policies controlling what data is allowed to traverse the firewall

Integration with Active Directory and LDAP directories

Either command-line or web-based interface for centralized control and management

Custom and summary reports, and log files enabling analysis of security incidents, application usage and traffic patterns

VPN's implement encryption and anonymize IP addresses

Built-in capacity to prevent exposure if primary firewall stops working

Stateful inspection analyzes packet headers and contents of packets

A proxy server changes your IP address and masks the origin of your network traffic

Sophos Intercept X

Sophos Email

Managed

Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services

Barracuda Firewall Insights

Sophos Managed Detection and Response

Director of IT Operations

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IT executive

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Sophos Intercept X for Server

Sophos Cloud Optix

Cortex Xpanse by Palo Alto Networks

CheckPoint

Cortex

Optix

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NETGEAR Ethernet Switches

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Firewall Software

We use the Sophos SG Firewall at a remote building to provide parameter security including port blocking, Intrusion detection, URL filtering, threat prevention and VPN capabilities to ensure the building network is secure. The firewall provides real time data back to our central portal allowing my team to consistently monitor and assess.

URL Filtering
Threat Detection
Real time monitoring

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

RoI is easy to achieve with Sophos firewalls as they are on the cheaper side of firewall costs
The product work well for small environments or building needs
The security features meet or exceed our internal and governance requirements

Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services and Barracuda Firewall Insights

Sophos Email, Sophos Managed Detection and Response, Sophos Intercept X

We are using Sophos SG firewall in our organization to protect our corporate network and data from external cyber threats. It provide us load balancing feature that ensured us zero downtime and helped us to optimize links utilization. It enabled us to restrict web and app access to optimize bandwidth uses. With Sophos SG firewall, we are able to configure an IPsec VPN tunnel to enable remote access to the organization network.

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.

The reporting part needs some improvement.
Limited support.
Some features require more detailed documentation.

Its load-balancing feature enabled us to have zero downtime and better link utilization.
Web and app restrictions helped us optimize bandwidth use.
It protects our organization's resources from external cyber threats.

We have used Sophos SG, XG and XGS Firewalls in our environment for over a decade now. They have all the essential features as a very competitive price point. I especially recommend them for SMB's as they provide a great value while keeping costs low.

Security Overall
SD-WAN
VPN
Sync with Sophos Central

Management takes a little to get used to. The workflows are backwards to everything else we have ever used.

Sophos Firewalls have been a fantastic investment in securing our environment. It is difficult to put an ROI on something like this but our small team has been able to efficiently utilize using this product without taking up a significant amount of time.
I have implemented these firewalls for numerous small companies. Great value for limited budgets.

Sophos SG Firewall Appliances

Overview

What is Sophos SG Firewall Appliances?