Sophos Network Access Control Reviews

• Comprehensive threat analysis
• Network access compliance'
• Ease of endpoint management
• Low resource utilization

It provides email alerts to the End User Computing team when endpoints have been compromised, and enables network remediation for unknown endpoints.

I'd like to see them include direct integration with Active Directory.

I've used it for five years.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

Their customer support is really good and so is their documentation and knowledge base site.

It’s excellent, at one point our licensing lapsed and they still helped us with a complex virus outbreak.

Previously used McAfee and evaluated Kaspersky, we switched from McAfee to Sophos because of price and features.

The initial setup was straightforward, server deployment was easy and policy creation and templates were easy to setup with selection items from a list.

We implemented it in-house, just read the documentation and check the knowledge base, most of the issues that you’ll run into are documented.

The return on our investment was huge, mostly due to the time saved in managing thousands of physical endpoints.

Test your remediation policy thoroughly before instituting it house wide.

I primarily use the solution to manage all of our devices.

The scalability of the system and the performance of the system and the solution's most valuable features.

The solution could increase the integration with other platforms or other systems. This would be very useful.

The solution is quite stable.

The solution is quite scalable. We have plans to increase and to distribute the system into other departments internally within the company in the near future.

Technical support is good. There is a chat system that is very useful and it's quite easy to receive support on different questions through it.

For on-premises I used a different solution but it's not so easy to compare the solutions because they are both on a different level. We used a Bitdefender-like private solution, but this solution is not really comparable. With Sophos, you have data control also on their hardware interface because the system is completely integrated with the infrastructure of the company. And the private solution doesn't provide the same level for infrastructure. This feature is not so easy to make a one-to-one comparison.

If you have the correct knowledge base, the initial setup is not complex. Deployment took less than a week and took about three people. For maintenance, we only need one person to manage it.

I handled the implementation myself apart from one section that was related to the hardware, but mainly for the integration with the other devices internally to the company. In this case, I needed to have a person with more expertise in charge. 

Licensing is on a yearly basis.

We didn't evaluate other options before choosing Sophos.

We're a Sophos partner. We tend to use both deployment models. Mainly, the hardware is on-premise, but all the management is on the cloud. For me, it's a better way to use this solution.

The system right now covers all my needs and it's very comfortable to work with.

For those considering implementing the solution, they need to be sure to have a complete overview of the system at the beginning. They need to know how they want to solve the need and the problems that they have. Everyone should start with an overview from the top.

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.

An area that could be improved is the information about licensing, which is fairly confusing at present. I've also had some issues with disabling ports.

I've been working with this solution for almost six years.

Network Access Control provides great stability and performance.

This solution is scalable.

Sophos' technical support is great, very fast and responsive, and they always know how to fix the problem.

I would advise anybody considering using this solution to go for it. I'd rate it as nine out of ten.

I found all Sophos Network Access Control features valuable, but IP blocking is the most useful.

Sophos Network Access Control requires a lot of resources to work, which is an area for improvement. The primary concern is that it has a lot of agents running as it's an endpoint solution, so when you apply the solution on a 4 GB system, you'd need to upgrade to an 8 GB system. At times, you'd even need to upgrade to 16 GB so the agents can run confidently without impacting your operations.

I understand that one of the reasons why Sophos Network Access Control uses up more resources is because of all the patches added over time. Still, I wonder what will happen in the next four years. It could mean that you'd need to buy a 16 GB system to ensure that Sophos Network Access Control runs very well, so Sophos needs to work on this area to ensure that the system uses up fewer resources when agents run.

The Sophos Network Access Control pricing also has room for improvement, but I know there's not much you can do about it. Sophos recently had a fifty percent off promo, but here in Nigeria, there have been some FX issues, so if you pay $10, for example, years back, that could be the maximum price, so about ten thousand Nairas. That no longer applies today because Nigeria's FX issues have affected Sophos products' pricing significantly.

If you're buying Sophos Network Access Control here in Nigeria, you have to pay based on the black market exchange rate and not on the interbank exchange rate, so you can't even blame the channel partners who earn that way. I'm unsure if Sophos can work on the pricing because many users find Sophos Network Access Control very expensive. Two customers who have used it for one year stopped using the product and decided to try Norton because Sophos Network Access Control is very expensive.

I've been using Sophos Network Access Control for the last two years, and I'm still using it.

Sophos Network Access Control is stable, and I've used other solutions before I used this solution. It's exceptionally stable if you're using different Sophos products within one environment, similar to a unified solution, because communication becomes easier and better.

From what I've seen so far, Sophos Network Access Control is scalable. It has to do with the improvement plan for Sophos products because, initially, the product wasn't as scalable. Still, over time, you'd see the improvement in scalability and the various patches to Sophos Network Access Control.

I'd rate the Sophos Network Access Control technical support as three out of five because I've never really experienced a serious technical issue with it.

The initial setup for Sophos Network Access Control is straightforward, so on a scale of one to five, I'd rate it a four.

Sophos Network Access Control is costly but has a similar price range as CrowdStrike and Check Point. The three solutions have more agents added because of endpoint coverage, while Norton doesn't cover endpoints, so Norton is very cheap over Sophos Network Access Control, Check Point, and CrowdStrike.

The product can get more market share if Sophos can play around with Sophos Network Access Control pricing and improve it.

I'm a partner of Sophos Network Access Control.

My advice to anyone looking to implement Sophos Network Access Control is that it's better to have an entire ecosystem of Sophos products because Sophos even covers the entire OSI layer. You get protection for the OSI layer and can secure your entire network. Sophos can provide MDM, firewall, endpoint-to-endpoint protection, etc. If you use Sophos, you will get general coverage for your system, so my advice to anybody who wants to use Sophos Network Access Control is to use it. As your company, services, and operations keep expanding, keep adding different Sophos products, and your network will be fine.

I'd rate Sophos Network Access Control as six out of ten because the product will struggle in enterprise-level environments, such as banks. Still, Sophos has done a lot of work on the product, so for an average user, Sophos Network Access Control works fine.

There is room for improvement in pricing. 

We have been working with this solution for six years. We have Sophos 310 UTM.

It's stable.

We have only one box, but we have around 150 end users. 

We have had interactions with the technical support team through the Xnet platform.

It's good.

Positive

We have access controls on this Sophos machine.

The licensing cost is too much. 

Overall, I would rate the solution a ten out of ten. 

If there is an infected system, the firewall will alert me and we can actually take that system off the network and isolate it. The Sophos people will resolve that issue and then bring the system back to the network.

Sophos has an endpoint side, a firewall side, access control, and a phishing side. It is an entire network security solution.

What Sophos has done is integrate almost the entire OSI layer infrastructure. It gives me visibility across my infrastructure. It gives me visibility into all the mobile devices that are on my network and into the security I have on those mobile devices. I also have visibility into my users, my servers, and into what is happening at all my gateways, as well as visibility on my switches. So it gives me a global view of my infrastructure.

The beautiful thing about it is that it has an integration between the endpoint and the firewall. So if any of my endpoints, systems like desktops or laptops, does not have an updated patch, it will be disconnected from the network.

What needs to be improved on is the fact that Sophos consumes a lot of processor resources and, once it starts scanning, the RAM utilization is very high. I am a little bit worried about where Sophos is. A system with 4 GB would struggle. Even when it scans systems that have 8 GB, they struggle.

Also, one of the things that Sophos has not been able to tidy up properly — and I asked them about it — is that it would be nice if a person who is using Sophos on mobile devices could connect to the office using some type of multi-factor authentication. I would like to see a mobile app that generates a token inside our system and then it signs you into our network.

We have been using Sophos for a few years.

It's stable.

It is easy to scale the product.

Sophos support is okay because we have people here, Sophos technical partners, in Nigeria. We are not really dependent on Sophos outside the country. They are in UK, but we have not had to depend on them there to resolve many issues. We have asked them to help one or two times.

The initial setup is straightforward.

I would recommend Sophos, including Intercept X which is their anti-virus software for endpoints. I would also advise, if you are getting Sophos, to make sure you upgrade systems from 4 GB to 8 GB and make sure you upgrade your systems from Windows 7 to Windows 10, so you will be fully protected.

There is good documentation that helps to deploy a new wireless access point and a controller in a very easy way.

The initial setup is very easy.

We've found the solution to be very reliable.

The scalability is quite good.

Technical support has been very good so far. 

The pricing is very reasonable and you can negotiate on the price. 

We would like to be able to implement an access point range. There are a number of clients we have at one time and only one access point.

In order to provide better management, it would be ideal with they offered better plugins for their firewall. 

The solution could always offer better security.

I've only been using the solution for one year at this point. It hasn't been that long. 

The solution is very stable and very reliable. The performance is good. There are no bugs or glitches and the solution does not crash or freeze. 

A company can easily scale the solution If it needs to. The scalability is very good.

We've been in touch with technical support and they are very helpful. they respond in a timely manner. We are quite satisfied with their level of attention. 

I'm also familiar with Ruckus and Aruba.

The initial setup is not too complex and we did not find it to be difficult. The solution is easy to set up and deploy. A company shouldn't have any issues with the process. 

The solution requires us to pay an annual license fee. I'm happy with the pricing. Basically, we negotiate the pricing and they provide for our needs.

We're just a customer and an end-user. We're an educational institution. We don't have a business relationship with Sophos. 

We are using the Sophos Firewall model number XG 310. The Access Point model number is 740.

The client has many options when it comes to solutions like this. Other options include Ruckus and Aruba. 

I'd rate the solution at a seven out of ten. It's been okay.

Within our organization, there are roughly 450 users, using this solution.

Currently, I would say we're only using about 50% of the full functionality of the device. We definitely will keep using this solution in the future. 

The feature I love the most is probably the wifi. The wifi control is fantastic and makes it very easy to administer. The security is also top-notch. Since we've been using this product, we've not had any problems with regards to threats. I'm very happy with this solution.

I would like to see mobile administration capabilities in the next release so that we can administer the device from a mobile device.

I have been using Sophos Network Access Control for three years. 

Sophos Network Access Control is both very scalable and stable.

We've only ever needed technical support once and we resolved the problem in about half an hour. I am very pleased with the customer support.

The customer support speed is good. The only problem I had was my time zone because I am in Africa and we don't have any local support in Africa. So the support I receive is always via Europe, so Internet access always causes some delays.

We used to use Cisco; and before Cisco, we used Microsoft Proxy Server. We moved from Microsoft to Cisco, and then from Cisco to Sophos. We switched because Cisco was too expensive and complex.

The initial setup was very easy. That was one of the reasons why we selected the product — it's both easy and reliable.

I believe we deployed all three sites in just two days.

We implemented the solution internally — I did it myself. 

I would absolutely recommend this solution, 100%. On a scale from one to ten, I would give this solution a rating of ten. I think this is one of the best products I've discovered in the last few years. I love this product, I just wish there was a bigger footprint in Africa.