Intercept X Endpoint Reviews

The solution is useful for protecting against ransomware and malwares.

The performance is very slow and should be faster. 

Data resources will be consumed, affecting the performance, when there is a concurrent login involving a server with multiple RDP users. 

The installation of the solution will start the 17 services involved. 

While the tech support is knowledgeable, it's response time should be faster, as it will only get back to us the day after raising a ticket. 

We have been using Sophos Intercept X for around two years.

Technical support, while knowledgeable, is not adequately responsive, as it will take a day from when the ticket was raised to receive a response. This needs improving. 

The solution is easy to install. Downloading time takes only 15 minutes.

Our technical team consists of a team leader, team manager and administrators.

The solution has around 60 licenses. 

It is cloud-based.

We have around 10 clients making use of the solution.

We would recommend the solution to others.

I rate Sophos Intercept X as a seven out of ten.

We're currently implementing this solution in our company, but we generally implement it for our clients. I'm a director and we are resellers of Sophos Intercept X.

The product is very stable which is great. 

The after sales service and support could be improved, particularly on the technical side. The solution has room for additional features. 

I've been using this solution for two years. 

The product is stable, although one of my clients suffered a bit from downtime. The clients are happy with it. 

We purchase different boxes according to the needs of the client, because every single box  has a limitation on number of users. The lowest one, which is 110, supports up to 20 users, 10 to 20 users. 125 supports around 30 users and so on. Most of our clients are medium and enterprise size companies. 

I'd like to see the price lowered. 

Although this is quite an expensive solution when you compare it to products like Automate or Cisco, Sophos does better on pricing.  

I rate this solution a seven out of 10. 

We are using Sophos Intercept X for network and system security.

The key factor that attracted me to Sophos Intercept X was the multi-platform. I have multiple clients that have mixed environments of Mac and Windows. I am able to deliver a standard solution, regardless of the platform.

Most of my clients I have central management, they receive updates automatically.

There are not any solutions that are a 10 out of 10. A 10 would be perfect protection with no impact on the performance of the device. This is not the case, there is some impact on the performance of the device.

I have been using Sophos Intercept X since it has been released, it has been many years.

Sophos Intercept X is very stable. However, we had a few issues when Apple released Big Sur. At the time the version of Sophos Intercept X that was running on the Macs wouldn't work properly with Big Sur. We had to install a beta, but that problem was resolved fairly quickly.

Sophos Intercept X is highly scalable.

I have found the Sophos office staff to be far more responsive than other vendors, such as Sonic Wall which is awful. I dealt with them for a number of years and I finally couldn't stand it anymore. I felt that Dell destroyed them.

I have been very pleased with tech support. As a partner, I have access directly to their engineers and developers. Their technical support is superior.

The initial setup is very straightforward.

In the centrally managed environments, you create a downloadable install that you can either email to the end-user or, can have available on thumb drives for customers to install. Once it's installed, it's automatically kept up to date with the most current version.

The price of Sophos Intercept X is competitive.

I'm looking at moving to the EDR version of Sophos because I have a number of clients that have extremely critical data. One of them handles a lot of money for their clients, and the others are lawyers. The security of not only their own information, but their client information, is critical to them. The Intercept X EDR offering is starting to look like it might be a good solution for several of them because of the live monitoring of the threat attempts on their endpoints.

The EDR is an additional managed service that's a component of the antivirus, where depending upon which level you choose, you either have a team that is monitoring responses from your system, or at a higher level, you have dedicated resources that are monitoring your systems. If there's an alert, they immediately respond to that alert and research it, not only quarantine it, the AV quarantines it, but with the EDR function, it alerts the Sophos team that there has been a potential issue, and they'll immediately begin to research it.

My advice to others would be to use centralized management because it makes it much easier to implement, manage, track the installations, and the day-to-day usage. With the central management, you can see every PC or Mac that's connected, any activity, and any issues. You can narrow any issue down to the computer if it's had to quarantine anything. Additionally, you can tell how long it's been since the computer last communicated. It's a very powerful tool, I would recommend it. To the extent their clients are willing to accept the central manager, it is the best option.

I rate Sophos Intercept X a nine out of ten.

We use it mostly for software protection. 

It's quite simple to use and user friendly.

The EDR could be improved, and perhaps the User Interface. EDR machine learning could be included.

We have been using Sophos Intercept X for about two years. It is the latest cloud version. We have about 200 people using it, daily. We are a Sophos customer.

It is a stable product.

It is reasonable scalable. So, somewhere in the middle in terms of scalability.

We have not needed to use support so far.

We have been using Sophos since day one.

The setup was simple. It took us about one day to set up and configure the software.

The setup was done internally. We also perform maintenance internally.

The pricing is average for software like this, but you can purchase additional services if you wish.

In the future, we may evaluate SentinelOne.

I would recommend this to other users, and I would give the product 7 out of 10.

One of the best use cases involves synchronized security staff, which allows us to manage both the firewall and the anti-virus features from the cloud. They work in tandem with each other. So, if there is any threat detected by the endpoint, it communicates information concerning this change to the firewall. For that particular client, at the firewall, it can update all other endpoints into the network to check if the same threat is visible on any other machine. Then, corrective action can be taken collectively with a single click.

We have not encountered any issues involving the solution. A point in its favor is that it has not slowed down our systems, such as occurred with McAfee, Symantec or even Quick Heal. This has been a positive experience for us. Also, the synchronized security, in which things work with each other, provides us with a pretty automated remediation methodology which cuts down on much of the manual steps and workload. 

At present, the solution meets the needs of our business scale. Perhaps in the future, as we grow and face increased challenges, there would be a need to explore other options. 

We've been using Sophos Intercept X for around six months.

The solution is pretty stable. 

The solution is, indeed, scalable. As a cloud-based solution, it is all about scalability. 

We have yet to encounter a situation in which we had a need to call tech support. 

The solution is pretty straightforward and very easy to configure.

Installation took no more than two or three minutes. 

We, ourselves, are system integrators and we have a staff of around seven people, consisting of eight engineers and a person who is responsible for the accounts, meaning the support staff. 

One can pay for the license annually, or at two and five year intervals. 

The solution is cloud-based.

I would absolutely recommend this solution to others. So far, so good. 

There are roughly 25 people making use of the solution in our organization. 

I rate Sophos Intercept X as a ten out of ten. 

We primarily brought on the solution to replace Symantec's product, as Symantec was purchased by Broadcom. The company in question has a lot of stuff, and 40 users, and is a pure Windows environment. They don't do anything on Mac or Linux, for example.

So far, the solution has been working quite well.

Sophos offers a manuscript response. 

The product has three tiers that you can choose from when you buy. The highest is a Managed Threat Response. We chose the middle range, which offers Intercept X and is more than just Malware protection.

This solution is a kind of Next-Gen anti-virus.

The product has some web filtering, which blocks people from going to websites they shouldn't be going to. 

It supports the Windows 10 server platform. 

The solution offers a centralized view of the status of protection, via a central console for users to check the status or the health of the endpoints.

So far, the solution has met all our expectations. It's blocked malicious websites effectively and stopped people from going to places online that they shouldn't be going to. It's automatic. We simply took the default settings and we were finding people right away that were going to illicit sites, and we were able to see that easily in the console.

The package we use also comes with spam filtering features, which are quite useful.

We're still new to the solution. We haven't come across any weakness yet. There aren't features that are missing.

The initial setup can be a bit challenging.

I just deployed the solution a few weeks ago. It's quite new at this point. We've had it now for a little over a month.

The solution is extremely stable. It doesn't crash or freeze. There aren't bugs and glitches. It's kept us safe. Nothing has gotten through. It's reliable.

Currently, the company only has 40 users, and therefore there are no scalability issues so far. However, it's a cloud-based centralized console, so that will help with scaling in the future if the company decides to expand. It wouldn't be hard to do. It's completely achievable.

Technical support is okay. I'd give them higher scores if I didn't have to contact them about the initial console setup. That said, they were helpful. Their service so far has been about average.

We previously used Symantec.

We switched solutions for a few reasons. The first one is that Symantec was bought by Broadcom and there were some unknowns about what would happen with the product. Support typically gets worse when Broadcom buys a product, and we wanted to step away on the off-chance that could happen in the near future. 

We were also looking to consolidate and to find a replacement but to also get something that had spam protection and something that was easily obtainable for a small business. Sophos ultimately could hit all those checkmarks.

The initial setup with the centralized console was a little bit challenging. It wasn't complex per se, however, due to the fact that the instructions weren't clear, you can get stuck at certain points. I opened up a case for support, and at that point, I was able to get under the console. You could say the onboarding of additional administrators was a challenge. The centralized console was also a bit difficult.

After that, the implementation was pretty easy. You simply remove the old one, add the new one, and then, with the new one, you could send the user an email link, or you could send them a path to where the software is. 

I do not know the exact costs offhand, however, it's my understanding that their pricing is listed publicly on their site and would be easy to find. Sophos seemed surprised that their pricing was public. They were shocked that I could just Google it and it came up.

There are extra add-ons you can purchase over and above this product. The add-ons cost a bit more, however, they offer extra security advantages.

We are a reseller.

We deployed the latest version of the solution. I don't have the version number on hand, however.

It's a good product to consider if a company is looking to also do spam filtering. What Sophos has as well as a firewall, and it'll give a company a little bit of tighter integration, and that's good. Having those additional security tools as add-ons is an excellent option. We personally haven't gotten their firewall yet, however, it is nice that that is an option.

I would rate the solution at an eight out of ten. Overall, in the short amount of time we've used it, we've had a positive experience.

The most valuable feature is the supervisory side of it where we can watch the throughputs and even the loading of the device, to see how much traffic is happening.

In terms of the site-to-site VPN elements, they tend to concentrate. It's quite simple when there are Meraki devices at both ends of the VPN but if there is another user at one end, on another device, it can be a bit tricky. So they could really simplify that process a bit.

So far, the solution has been very stable.

At the moment, we have no plans to expand further. We might in the next six months or so. I believe it will easily scale. We've just not gone into that yet but it looks promising. At the moment, we have around 50 users.

I've only had to deal with technical support in relation to site-to-site VPN problems. I did find them to be very helpful.

At the moment, we don't have ROI because we've been given a very generous period of trial for this machine, we've not had to actually spend any money so far. So, in terms of return of the investment, it's not really applicable at the moment.

In terms of advice, I would make sure that, in terms of capacity, to get the right version, to find the right level of device. MX64 is a fairly small business-scale device. We were a bit hesitant about going for that, given the scalability of it at that point. But, obviously, make sure that you go in with enough extra capacity to deal with any increases you have in traffic demand.

If you're setting up a VPN on the MX64, if both ends end up being a Meraki device, then it's simple to set it up. But when it isn't, it's a bit more complex. Eventually, it causes a lot of statistical information that they could provide if the devices are Meraki at both ends. If they could provide that same facility for setups where the network doesn't involve an MX64 or a Meraki device at both ends, that would be great.

I would rate this solution an 8 out of 10.

We develop software for brands and some enterprise companies. We need Sophos Intercept X to create hardware and software solutions. 

We need to create research for a next-generation firewall security solution. We offer software and hardware solutions for banks, enterprises, and big companies.

We had some technical problems. Maybe in the new update of this solution, they could fix some technical bugs. 

Sophos Intercept X has slow internal processes that could be better. Because of this, it hasn't improved our organization.

We most value the price and interface quality with Sophos Intercept X. We focus on solution quality.

This product has room for improvement in business areas for brand enterprises. Sophos Intercept X could improve in areas dealing with business, i.e. their internal processes.

For the stability of the solution, I had some problems with uptime.

Technical support could be of better quality.

The initial setup was complex. Our deployment took six months to one year. It took us around one year to fully set up Sophos and get it running to take action for work.

For the deployment, I set it up myself.

Sophos needs to create a YouTube channel with educational material for technicians or engineers.

I would rate Sophos Intercept X at seven out of ten because of the technical problems that we have experienced.