Sophos XGS Reviews

Sophos XGS can be deployed on the cloud or on-premise.

Sophos XGS can be used as a firewall, secured appliance firewall, routing, and depending on the licensing on it, to secure web servers.

The most valuable features of Sophos XGS are a set of functionalities that are quite commendable, they call it synchronized security, where all the solutions share defense lines with each other.

Sophos XGS could improve the price.

I have been using Sophos XGS for approximately four years.

Sophos XGS is reliable.

The scalability of Sophos XGS is good.

We have approximately 1,000 cumulative users using the solution. We have approximately 15 customers using this solution.

The support from Sophos XGS is great.

The initial setup of Sophos XGS is straightforward, but if you are not experienced it would be difficult.

The licensing cost for Sophos XGS is high. However, they do apply competitive discounts and different layers of discounts.

Sophos XGS is rated number one on the Gartner Magic Quadrant for the current year. They are doing well with respect to innovations.

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate Sophos XGS an eight out of ten.

We are happy and satisfied with all the features. There is nothing special there.

The main thing that we would like to see improved is ransom. They could provide something better. We are not using a public IP. 

I have been using Sophos XGS for the past year.

It is stable for our intended purposes.

Sophos XGS is scalable.

Technical support is very good.

It depends upon the requirement you may have. If we see that it is a straightforward requirement, it will be easy to implement.

Compared to Fortinet, the cost is high. Even compared to the U.S. market the market price is high.

We work with SonicWall and Fortinet. This depends upon the requirements you have. Sometimes the client wants a particular price, sometimes they are considering a solution, and sometimes it is pricing. It's based on the distributors, support, and installers.

I would rate Sophos XGS a seven out of ten.

We did buy access points, and we did use the WiFi configuration. We did create a configuration for the WiFi to the access points on the same interface. It's great for access point integration.

The user interface is fine.  

The configuration and customization capabilities are good.

It is very lovely to work with Sophos in general. It's easy to use and user-friendly.

There is a lot of great documentation available to users. 

The stability is good. 

It's scalable. 

The licensing prices are too high.

There are a lot of false-positive cases. 

We'd like to see access point integration. 

I've been using the solution for four months.

The solution is stable and reliable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. 

The product can scale. 

We have about 150 users on the solution right now. 

I have not used any technical support services. There is so much documentation online, I do not need assistance. 

I also use Microsoft products. I prefer Sophos for on-premises and Microsoft for cloud and antivirus products. 

Microsoft Defender and the Microsoft Defender cloud panels admin portal are native, and we are using many Microsoft products, so it just makes sense due to the environment to use Microsoft products. 

While the deployment was done before I began work in the organization, I reset it and configured it completely.

There are a lot of Sophos post-configuration documents, Sophos videos, et cetera. It was the first time that I configured Sophos. However, it was all good.

The product is very easy to maintain. 

The cost to license the product is a bit expensive. I'd rate the cost at a four out of five in terms of affordability. We pay about $150.

I'm a consultant. I'm using the latest version of the solution.

Sophos is good for smaller companies. It might not be suitable for large ones. 

I'd rate it seven out of ten.

I mainly use Sophos XGS for content filtering and reporting.

Sophos XGS's most valuable feature is content filtering.

There are some bugs relating to the product that allow VPN users to bypass the firewall.

I've been using Sophos XGS for about eight years.

Sophos XGS is stable.

Sophos XGS is scalable.

Sophos' technical support is not good and needs to improve responsiveness, integration, and knowledge.

Negative

The initial setup is complex as Sophos doesn't support the installation or configuration. I would rate the ease of setup as one out of five.

Sophos XGS costs around $75,000 for fifty units. Its pricing isn't very expensive - I'd rate it four out of five. 

I would give Sophos XGS a rating of eight out of ten.

I am a user and we are also resellers of this solution. Our company is in the Ivory Coast, we are partners with Sophos and I'm a technician.

It's very easy to manage this solution. 

There are issues with some designs being able to work on high availability. We design our architecture in three tiers on the network. There is the core tier, the distribution tier, and the access tier. We haven't succeeded in our attempts to configure this and haven't been able to find documentation on how to go about it. Sophos has a single sign-on, but it requires configuration to communicate with the firewall and that is lacking. The configuration on Sophos is well described, but the configuration on the Windows system is not well described in relation to the Sophos knowledge base. It took a lot of my own research to figure out what was wrong. I'm a cyber security guy so it's very difficult for me to implement the solution.

I've been using this solution for seven years. 

My customers find the product to be stable.

I believe that the solution is scalable. 

We now have access to French support, English support, and Indian support. We had great support from India and we worked well together. I now choose French support, because that's my mother tongue but it's quite difficult to work with them.

The initial setup is simple and straightforward. When you connect on the wizard, you just click through and you're there. 

The pricing has changed a lot over the years. Sophos says they are less expensive than other solutions in the marketplace, but that's not my experience. I believe this product is more expensive. 

If you're looking for equipment that's easy to manage, this is a good product. I rate this solution eight out of 10. 

Sophos XGS's best features are its VPN and ATPR1 cert protection. It's also very user-friendly and makes managing roles and policies very easy.

There are some issues with conversion and user roles when upgrading to Cyberoam.

I've been using Sophos XGS for two years.

Sophos XGS is stable.

Sophos XGS is scalable.

Sophos's technical support is excellent.

I previously used Cyberoam, but Sophos XGS's licensing is easier.

Sophos XGS's pricing is very affordable.

I would give Sophos XGS a rating of ten out of ten.

Our team of implementation partners serve as consultants and resellers of the solution. 

The solution offers more antimalware and antivirus feeds than others and it is simple to implement the application from one rule. 

The solution's interface is very good. 

The solution could improve inspection processes and troubleshooting for VPNs because this area is very weak. 

Improvement in VNET protection is also needed. 

I have been using the solution for five years. 

The solution is stable. 

The solution is scalable. 

Technical support is very good. 

We implement this solution and other firewalls such as WatchGuard. A company's size such as small, medium, or enterprise determines the best solution. 

The setup is simple but troubleshooting is complex. 

The pricing is very good. 

I rate the solution an eight out of ten. 

Sophos XGS can be deployed on the cloud or on-premise.

Sophos XGS is used as a perimeter security solution.

The most valuable features in Sophos XGS are identity and VPN. It is a very good solution that is able to detect and prevent a lot of malicious activity.

Sophos XGS could improve the automation system. It could be better if there was some level of automation, attacks automation, meaning if this happens, then it automatically executes a particular process.

I have been using Sophos XGS for approximately five years.

Sophos XGS is stable.

The stability of Sophos XGS is good.

We have approximately 200 people using this solution in my organization. The users are edge devices using the solution. 

Sophos XGS has good support.

I have previously used Fortinet and MikroTik.

The initial setup of Sophos XGS is easy for network engineers. The time it takes to deploy the solution depends on many factors. However, on average it takes approximately two hours.

The price of Sophos XGS is average compared to other offers from other OEMs.

I would recommend that others consider using the endpoint solution from the same OEM.

I rate Sophos XGS a nine out of ten.