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UK headquartered Sophos offers web content filtering.
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Sophos Web Content Filtering offers a range of valuable features and use cases for organizations, making it a popular choice among IT managers and administrators. Users receive regular email notifications about quarantined emails, giving them the ability to release them or delete them, ensuring important messages are not missed. This feature has been praised by users for its effectiveness in reducing spam and scams.
The software also provides an additional layer of protection against nefarious email addresses by allowing users to block them. This feature has proven to be beneficial in safeguarding networks from potential threats. Sophos Web Content Filtering is widely used in both primary companies and local non-profit organizations, acting as a crucial protective layer for internet users.
Another important use case is web filtering, which prevents access to websites with malicious, pornographic, or illegal content. With the software's capabilities, users can easily restrict access based on specific configurations using lists of terms. It has been commended for its ability to effectively control web content and protect users from harmful websites.
Sophos security solutions, including web content control and endpoint security, have gained recognition for their effectiveness in enhancing cybersecurity measures for organizations. The software allows admins to easily add and remove policies, audit accessed sites, and block access for specific network groups. It plays a key role in implementing policies that restrict access to unsuitable websites or those posing cybersecurity risks.
Moreover, the software incorporates DNS blocking, which resolves only names via categories, minimizing false positives and enhancing web content control. Users have found the console straightforward to use, enabling straightforward administration of filters such as SSL filtering and the addition of custom categories.
Overall, Sophos Web Content Filtering proves to be a versatile and reliable solution for organizations seeking effective protection against email threats and internet risks.
Flexibility in email management options: Users have appreciated the ability to choose from various options for handling emails, such as releasing, deleting, blocking, or reporting them as spam. This flexibility allows users to effectively manage their inbox according to their preferences and needs.
Helpful warning labels for email security: Several reviewers found the presence of warning labels at the top of emails to be a beneficial feature. These labels clearly indicate whether an email is from a trusted sender or an external sender that may not be trusted. This helps users make informed decisions about which emails to block and enhances their email security.
Valuable daily quarantine emails: Some users find great value in receiving daily notifications detailing quarantined emails. They appreciate being informed about which emails have been quarantined and having the option to release or delete them. This feature helps users stay on top of their email management and ensures that important messages are not missed.
Quarantine of important emails: Some users have noted that Sophos has the tendency to initially quarantine important emails, which can be inconvenient and lead to delays in accessing critical information.
Time-consuming email allowance: Several reviewers have expressed their desire for a more streamlined process when allowing email communication. They suggest implementing an option to allow entire email domains instead of manually adding individual addresses, as it can be time-consuming and tedious.
Inefficiency in releasing email addresses: A few users have raised concerns about the inefficiency in releasing and allowing specific email addresses within Sophos. They find it frustrating that each member of their company has to individually allow the same address to their inbox, which results in redundant efforts and unnecessary complications.
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We use web filtering to prevent access to websites with malicious, pornographic or illegal content.
We could also only allow access to content related to the work to be performed by people.
You can also restrict access to websites whose content is in your configuration file, this has been done through a list of terms.
We could also only allow access to content related to the work to be performed by people.
You can also restrict access to websites whose content is in your configuration file, this has been done through a list of terms.
- Restrict access to web pages with malicious content.
- Restrict access to illegal websites.
- Allow access to websites allowed in the company.
- It only allows UTF-8 encoded characters.
- It does not support metadata.
- It does not support comments in the custom filter file.
January 17, 2023
Let Sophos tame your WWW, (wild wild web) traffic...
For our organization, Sophos security solutions for web content control, and endpoint security is an effective solution pairing. The Sophos integrated security solution allowed us to resolve users from venturing into unsafe web space, with use of DNS blocking (resolve only names via categories etc.) These features allow less false positives and better web content control for users to browse Internet searching with less fear of intrusion of unsafe web sites (non compliant).
- Categorize content
- Rules for exceptions
- Custom error screens for end user
- Adding of new categories to filter engines
- Updates for known bad searches
- Domain whitelist ordering
January 17, 2023
Simple and Straighforward Web Content Filtering with Sophos
We use Sophos for Web Content Filtering by implementing policies to restrict access to websites that contain any of the terms listed that we deem not suitable for the workplace or that might pose a cybersecurity risk for our environment. It is pretty straightforward, and the Sophos Firewall takes care of the rest.
- Impede access to NSFW pages
- Avoid the risk of having to deal with potentially malicious websites
- Block access to platforms that could facilitate Data Exfiltration
- Pretty Straightforward. Set it and forget it, and from time to time tweak it.
- Possibility of notification when there's an attempt.
- I can't think of one. The product is pretty straightforward in this aspect.
January 17, 2023
You'll want to get Sophos
We use Sophos to filter out emails that may be spam or scams. We receive emails twice a day letting us know which emails have been quarantined, and we have the option to release them to our inbox or delete them from the platform entirely. We are also able to block email addresses that we know are nefarious.
- Allowing options: I am able to choose from several different options (release, release and allow, delete, block, block and report to Spam)
- Warning labels: emails have labels at the top to define if an email is from a trusted sender or the email is from an external sender and may not be trusted. I can block those emails, if I choose to
- Quarantine emails: I appreciate the 2x daily emails detailing which emails have been quarantined, and if I would like to release them or delete them
- Almost too good: Sophos may quarantine several emails at first that it doesn't know are important, but I am able to allow those email addresses to my inbox
- Individual email addresses: sometimes I would like Sophos to allow email domains rather than specific addresses; if I have a few different people who email me from the same domain, I have to allow each individual address
- Allowing email addresses throughout company: when I release and allow an email address, it just allows it to come to my inbox; each member of my company will have to go in and allow the same address to their inbox
January 17, 2023
Sophos Web Content Filtering for Ultimate Web Content Filtering
It helped to block the access to the websites for particular network group. User can easily upload the policies in order to secure the organization data from malicious sites. It played a key role in cyber security by adding and removing the policies easily. It also audited the sites accessed within organization.
- Blocking the content using the provided terms
- Email security
- Cloud security
- Cloud security can be improved
- Scope to do more meaningful auditing
- Scope in endpoint security
January 16, 2023
If Only Sophos Web Content Filtering Could Filter My Words...
I use Sophos Web Content Filtering on Sophos XG firewalls at my primary company of employment, as well as a local non-profit (school) I volunteer with. In both cases, we use the solution as one of the protective layers for Internet users. While we also use anti-x and EDR technologies to protect against threats, Sophos Web Content Filtering is an additive layer that also protects mobile and guest devices within our network.
- Sophos does an excellent job of category-based content filtering. It's easy to configure and flexible for many environments with the ability to tighten or loosen restrictions as requirements determing.
- Sophos' built-in capabilites can force safe search rules to protect against content work-arounds like Image search and search engines in general.
- The Sophos XTreme architecture also helps improve the overall performance of the Web Content Filtering solution. It is very quick and very transparent when in use on the network.
- While safe search enforcement in built-in and a useful tool (especially in environments where minors are to be protected), it is somewhat difficult to implement. Although documentation will easily walk one through setup, I suspect this will be remedied in upcoming releases of Sophos OS.
October 09, 2017
Sophos Web Filtering at a Glance
Sophos Web Content Filtering is used along all our organization, since it supplies a wide range of features and categorization. What really helps for us IT Managers/CTOs/Everyday Admin is to be able to add categories and work around what users try to bypass, the SWCF, helps even filtering SSL and putting straight forward administration through its console.
- Ease of administration
- Great technical support
- Millions of domains added daily with Sophos Labs Reputation Service
- Initial Setup Guide could be more detailed
- WebGui Interface, needs some smoothness
- More simple models (in the hardware version) for smaller organizations to be able to implement this system