F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition vs Sophos Central comparison

F5 and Sophos are both solutions in the AWS Marketplace category. F5 is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.7, while Sophos is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.3. F5 holds a 0.5% mindshare in AWSM, compared to Sophos’s 0.3% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of F5 users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Sophos users who would recommend it.

F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition

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100% willing to recommend

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94% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition and Sophos Central based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two AWS Marketplace solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition vs. Sophos Central

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Categories and Ranking

F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition

Ranking in AWS Marketplace

12th

Average Rating

8.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Sophos Central

Ranking in AWS Marketplace

8th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

8.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the AWS Marketplace category, the mindshare of F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is 0.5%, down from 2.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sophos Central is 0.3%, down from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Kodanda Ramji C.S

Manager | Engineering | Cloud Managed Services at Sify Technologies

Offers easy-to-use integration capabilities

It is a scalable solution. In F5 BIG-IP i5800, if you have assigned a single CPU and memory for a virtual instance and if it increases, you can just add a CPU and memory to the existing vCMP. What you have to do is spin one more virtual instance with the two CPUs and double the memory, like eight GB memory, for example. You can't just increase the existing VirtualBox. You have to create another VirtualBox parallel, download the configurations, and import it. My company provides one banking application to around ten customers. My company has around seven virtual instances and seven applications, each application having around 70 customers running on one F5 BIG-IP i5800. My company has created seven VirtualBox.

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Sandeepraj Gatla

SOC Analyst at Wydur

Cost-effective security management with a user-friendly interface, efficient resource utilization, and rapid response capabilities

While Sophos Central has demonstrated commendable functionality, there is room for improvement in the realm of automation. Specifically, addressing ransomware attacks often requires leveraging external tools, deploying virtual machines, and utilizing supplementary tools like Caliper Analytics for operations and security communication. The integration of these essential functionalities directly into the software would represent a significant enhancement, streamlining the incident response process and bolstering the platform's comprehensive threat mitigation capabilities. Furthermore, a valuable addition to future releases could involve augmenting the new screen component with advanced capabilities such as XML utilization and rule integration. This enhancement, especially pertinent to tools involved in sandboxing and virtual machines within the investigation process, would greatly streamline the analysis of logs and reports. This would prove particularly beneficial in the context of email analysis, spam attack detection, and other critical security aspects. By incorporating these features, Sophos Central could further elevate its utility in facilitating in-depth security analyses and response strategies.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"I have a specific issue with the network interface connector, the NIC. We're limited to a maximum of two NICs in a virtualized environment. It's a limitation of the tool."

"It has DoS layer 7 protection, which not many vendors have."

"The tool's investment is less than a physical device."

"The features that I like include LTM and Global Traffic Manager (GTM)."

"It's easy to use, and they have good support."

"The integration capabilities of the product are easy to use, and there is no complexity involved in it."

"The product is easy to use."

"The standout feature is its focus on indexing, primarily designed for managing reports and logs from 500 to 1,000 endpoints, including Windows 10 hosts within the network."

"Sophos Central is a good and easy-to-manage product."

"The product has valuable rules and policies and user-friendly dashboard features."

"The tool improves security and saves time."

"The level of protection offered by this antivirus product is highly commendable."

"One of the most valuable features of Sophos Central is its Synchronized Security."

"The most valuable features of Sophos Central are total threat hunting and detection response."

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Cons

"On-the-go upgrades are an option that the tool currently lacks, making it an area where improvements are required."

"BIG-IP could improve in supporting microservices, for example, in Docker and Kubernetes environments."

"I have a specific issue with the network interface connector, the NIC. We're limited to a maximum of two NICs in a virtualized environment. It's a limitation of the tool."

"F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is a heavy system that needs a lot of CPU, memory, and hard disk."

"It's expensive and could be cheaper."

"The tool has limitations with respect to code and RAM."

"One area I would like to see improvement in Sophos Central is the multi-factor authentication process."

"Maybe the license pricing could be improved."

"Pushing global rules and policies to all devices from Central isn't easy. You can do it for all endpoints, which is fine. But you can't do the same with firewalls. Firewall management with Central is very limited. You can connect one firewall to another and tell it, "I want one policy for all my customer's firewalls," but that's not possible. For a customer with multiple firewalls, you can't say, "This works for France, Great Britain, Canada," and push it. It's not possible."

"The product must be made a little bit quicker."

"It's not well-marketed, so many customers don't know about this feature."

"The program slows down when you try to control or visualize multiple systems."

"The solution's performance drops at times because it is a SaaS-based tool, making it an area that requires improvement."

"Whenever a customer installs a Sophos Central agent on the end-user system, their system becomes slow."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I would rate the pricing a three out of ten, with ten being expensive."

"F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is an expensive solution, but it's worth the price."

"My company's customers need to make payments for the licensing charges attached to the product. It is an expensive product."

"The pricing is standard."

"The product is expensive. However, you can get discounts for over 100 users."

"The price is relatively affordable."

"Sophos Central is an affordable solution that any mid-level customer can buy."

"It is rather expensive."

"It offers the most competitive pricing compared to other vendors."

"Though I don't know the exact price of the product, I know that the tool is worth the money."

"There is a one-time fee for the hardware and an annual subscription fee, which is pretty good because we can get free updates."

"The product's pricing was somewhat high. We paid Rs. 1500 INR per license, approximately equivalent to 20 USD."

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Financial Services Firm

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition?

The integration capabilities of the product are easy to use, and there is no complexity involved in it.

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What needs improvement with F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition?

It's expensive and could be cheaper. At the moment, I can't think of anything to improve.

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What advice do you have for others considering F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition?

The solution is very good. I would rate the solution maybe ten out of ten.

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What do you like most about Sophos Central?

One of the significant advantages of Sophos is its affordability compared to other technologies like Check Point and Fortinet.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Sophos Central?

The product has a reasonable price considering the cybersecurity services it offers.

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What needs improvement with Sophos Central?

The firewall capabilities of Sophos Central need improvement. I have found it somewhat limited, and I prefer to work directly on the device for firewall management.

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Overview

When you need to move faster than hardware allows, BIG-IP Virtual Editions (VEs) deliver the application services you need in a more agile and flexible form factor. Get the scalability, security, and automatability BIG-IP products are known for—all in software designed for use in single-, hybrid-, or multi-cloud architectures.

Sophos Central allows you to manage our award-winning Synchronized Security platform. Advanced attacks are more coordinated than ever before. Now, your defenses are too. Our revolutionary Security Heartbeat™ ensures your endpoint protection and firewall are talking to each other. It’s a simple yet effective idea that means you get better protection against advanced threats and spend less time responding to incidents. It’s so simple, it makes you wonder why nobody did it before.

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