Sophos: Simple and efficient, does what it says
March 09, 2019

Sophos: Simple and efficient, does what it says

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

Overall Satisfaction with Sophos Endpoint Protection

Sophos is used globally across the entire company. We really on Sophos to provide endpoint protection to all desktops and servers plus the entire AWS estate. This provides us with our primary AV defense from internal users and malicious internet content. This is managed by multiple teams who can interact with the cloud-based solution and closely monitor all devices for compliance.

Pros

  • Simple to setup and configure leaving engineers free to worry about other tasks.
  • Sophos automatically discovered all our AWS servers with very little input enabling a clear picture of what servers we have over which sites and which are protected.
  • Very easy to configure specific policies either by server type, location or office specific for end users.

Cons

  • Automatic reporting of non-compliance devices could be improved as such that the engineer managing the estate can quickly see what is out of compliance and what needs to be done to fix it.
  • A single pane of glass interface to see all devices would be useful as switching between servers and desktops could be simplified.
  • With multiple policies being created the interface gets very busy and determining which policy is active for a particular device is not always clear.
  • Sophos provides a clear defense for all AV threats with a minimal input form engineering at a very reasonable price point
  • ROI was quick with saved engineering time, risk reduction and being cloud based meat no overhead for on premise solutions
  • The added benefit of then using Sophos to monitor internet access and usage was icing on the cake providing added benefits with little additional overheads
Sophos is by far the simplest of the products to setup and going in a very short period of time at a very similar price point. Trend is overly complex and relied on an appliance for each ESX node meaning you lose one appliance and then you lose protection across multiple devices. Installation and setup is complex and takes to much time. Traps is simple to use and setup, but still needs a lot of work on the interface and the ability to manage multiple policies is just not there, yet.
Sophos is particularly well suited to small engineering teams where a minimum amount of training is required and ongoing monitoring is simple and easy to conduct. The interface is intuitive (sometimes a little cluttered), easy to use and easy to quickly identify any potential issues and vulnerabilities that may be detected. When you have detected an issue, isolation and/or cleanup of the device is very simple with just a few mouse clicks and false positives are kept to a minimum

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