Let Sophos tame your WWW, (wild wild web) traffic...
January 17, 2023

Let Sophos tame your WWW, (wild wild web) traffic...

Rob Domenico | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Sophos Web Content Filtering

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
  • Preset categories for different organizations
  • Exceptions for groups
  • User activity monitoring
  • Reporting of suspicious activity and risky user/sites
  • Less web traffic efforts for overall security of users (along with Sophos Central)
  • Can add to overall protection cost for firewall initial purchase option
Sophos has been a much easier product to configure and eventually manage, with preset rules and policies to start off right out of the box, saving administrators time from adding every category and or site. However you can add/import all know good company sites (internal url's) as well as local sites for a safer settings. (know sites)

Do you think Sophos Web Content Filtering delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Sophos Web Content Filtering's feature set?

Yes

Did Sophos Web Content Filtering live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Sophos Web Content Filtering go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Sophos Web Content Filtering again?

Yes

For web content settings per type of traffic and also ability to have protected groups for easy deployment to large groups. safer searching tools for web users could be implemented if possible. Allow a warning for user to proceed with adding exception text to override, may be a nice to have.