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Sophos Central Anti Virus & Encryption Solution - Our Migration and Experience
August 13, 2021

Sophos Central Anti Virus & Encryption Solution - Our Migration and Experience

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Sophos Central Device Encryption (formerly SafeGuard)

We migrated from an on-premise Sophos SafeGuard solution. This was coupled with a separate on-premise Sophos Anti Virus. So the systems were on two separate on-premise servers. Also, this meant our users who were increasingly working away from the office, needed to be on the corporate VPN to be able to pick up new definitions and new policies. We migrated to Sophos Central. This is a single online, internet-facing portal that now contains both our Anti Virus and Encryption solutions. We are also a global business and can now have a single global system, with different 'region specific' policies that are applied by putting the endpoint into the region's group. This is much better for administering the systems and also for the users not having to connect to the VPN.
  • Centralised portal for both Anti Virus and Encryption
  • Internet-facing with the ability for global / multi region access for large organizations
  • Multi-level, built-in admin roles for different access levels for your Support Team. Also, you can define new roles to tailor to your organization
  • You will probably need to define some admin roles to suit your business unless you are a very large organization. The built-in roles are very siloed. For example, the Helpdesk role that your normal technician would probably be assigned cannot add nor move computers between groups.
  • Good for multi-region organization
  • Good for standardization across those regions
  • Internet-facing for users and support staff
  • Incorporates both AV and Encryption
  • One bill for your AV and Encryption solutions
  • Central portal for your AV reporting
  • The ability to have Sophos assist you (for extra cost) to help you identify and react to threats in real time
This was a natural progression for us, as we have multiple Sophos products. We did not look to any other product.

Do you think Sophos Central Device Encryption delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Sophos Central Device Encryption's feature set?

Yes

Did Sophos Central Device Encryption live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Sophos Central Device Encryption go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Sophos Central Device Encryption again?

Yes

SolarWinds Dameware Remote Everywhere (DRE)
We found the incorporated system of both AV and Encryption to be an absolute breath of fresh air for us.
It is great for small and mid-sized companies. We rolled this out across our 4 global regions. We created region-specific groups for our endpoints and placed the appropriate endpoints into those groups. [Then] we defined policies for AV and Encryption that would be used inter-region and assigned roles to the different regions' support staff. Great stuff.