Overview
What is Sophos SG Firewall Appliances?
Sophos SG Firewall Appliances are designed to provide optimal protection for organizations of all sixes from small remote offices, to global organizations requiring high-availability and
Advanced vpn,powerful ips engines,best in the business.
A review from an admin who have used a lot of firewall products.
Sophos SG - The firewall that other firewalls look up to
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What is Sophos SG Firewall Appliances?
Sophos SG Firewall Appliances are designed to provide optimal protection for organizations of all sixes from small remote offices, to global organizations requiring high-availability and
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(1-3 of 3)Review for Sophos SG Firewall Appliances
- Excellent Network Firewall
- Good IPS detection
- Good VPN capabilities
- Inbuilt AV detection capabilities
- I have had major issues integrating this with SIEM solution as the device is not CEF compliant
- Vendor support has been not on par with other major NGFW vendors like Palo Alto
- Documentation and troubleshooting content on forums is lacking
- Identification Technologies
- 80%8.0
- Visualization Tools
- 60%6.0
- Content Inspection
- 80%8.0
- Policy-based Controls
- 70%7.0
- Active Directory and LDAP
- 60%6.0
- Firewall Management Console
- 70%7.0
- Reporting and Logging
- 60%6.0
- VPN
- 80%8.0
- High Availability
- 80%8.0
- Stateful Inspection
- 70%7.0
- Proxy Server
- 60%6.0
- Positive ROI due to the competitiveness of the product.
- Positive impact as the device is fully functional and easy to operate.
- Negative impact when it comes to log integration as it does not support industry logging standards.
- Ips engines are efficient and have important updates.
- Vpn for clients are professional and user friendly.
- Advanced authentication mechanism for user authentication.
- Web interface is not data oriented,missed out a good dashboard
- Report generation is less professional
- Surfing quota feature has to be more precise,not working as intended.
- Identification Technologies
- 90%9.0
- Visualization Tools
- 90%9.0
- Content Inspection
- 100%10.0
- Policy-based Controls
- 80%8.0
- Active Directory and LDAP
- 90%9.0
- Firewall Management Console
- 90%9.0
- Reporting and Logging
- 90%9.0
- VPN
- 90%9.0
- High Availability
- 100%10.0
- Stateful Inspection
- 90%9.0
- Proxy Server
- 90%9.0
- We don't require external web authentication servers after this purchase.
- Diagnostics are proper and do not require a third party tool.
- Web quote helped us to effectively manage payments.
- Sophos' support is actually pretty decent compared to Fortinet. We as a customer who uses both have first-hand experience in that. Sophos' way of support is much more hands-on. For instance, if you raise a ticket, they will contact you via chat, email, or phone in a timely manner and based on your SLA.
- Sophos antivirus can speak with your firewall natively so that when a threat happens it can be blocked on a network level. We had first-hand experience of this where there was a potential outbreak on the network but the machines were getting isolated and prevented the spreading of malware.
- Sophos comes with a whole suite of products like Intercept X, MDM, Antivirus, On-premise, and a virtual firewall. So they are like a one shop stop for all your security needs. We liked Sophos compared to our other firewall, which only had on-premise and virtual firewall boxes.
- Sophos did come a long way from the time they bought out Cyberoam. But the thing with Sophos is it is concentrated on SMBs. You cannot put a Sophos Firewall on a very large organization with thousands of users because the hardware simply cannot take that much load. They normally fall flat against the likes of Palo Alto's or Fortinet's when it comes to large enterprises. But with the world moving to cloud and remote working being a thing I doubt it would be an issue.
- If you do a side-by-side comparison I always felt Sophos Firewall breaks faster under load compared to Fortinet Firewall on an OS level. For example, Fortinet devices are like once you set it up it will keep doing what it's supposed to do until you change it. But Sophos Firewall configs do seem to give problems when you are hammering your firewall. But if the firewall does break you have wonderful support which will assist you to fix the issues.
- Very poor Ansible Support. Most of the companies are heavily invested in DevOps and CICD. Sophos has very little support for Ansible compared to its peers. In this day and age, no one really wants to go into firewalls to make changes. Sophos really needs to invest in ansible support so that admins can simply write playbooks to get things done and add them to the CI/CD pipeline or Jenkins.
- Identification Technologies
- 70%7.0
- Visualization Tools
- 70%7.0
- Content Inspection
- 80%8.0
- Policy-based Controls
- 80%8.0
- Active Directory and LDAP
- 80%8.0
- Firewall Management Console
- 60%6.0
- Reporting and Logging
- 60%6.0
- VPN
- 80%8.0
- High Availability
- 80%8.0
- Stateful Inspection
- 80%8.0
- One positive impact that i really need to mention is with our AV talking to our firewall we dont need to manage them separately. When malicious contents are detected they get blocked automatically on the firewall as well. This really saves a lot of time and effort.
- There is a good centralised platform from sophos which collets metrics from all your end devices. Compared to the old symantec type of products where you had to maintain the onpremise solution for management this is an upgrade.You can simply run basic analysis from this platform or push data to a SIEM from your centralised solution.
- You can manage your AV's and your firewall from your centralised cloud solution. You can do some tasks like update/run scans etc from the cloud. You dont need to login to end user devices to do this. This features help in reducing the time that we have to spend on each end points.
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