What advice do you have for others considering Sophos UTM?

The customer support for Sophos UTM used to be better when it was still Astaro, but those days are long gone. The customer support has been good to mediocre, but not very good. In my opinion, the best features Sophos UTM offers are part of the firewall itself, so we don't need an extra appliance, we don't need to set up extra open-source VMs or anything. It's just part of the gateway that is connected to the internet anyway, and we protect our Exchange servers with it. I choose a rating of nine out of ten for Sophos UTM because, as I mentioned, the graphical user interface is stuck in the past, and some things here and there are not implemented to the full, such as the reverse gateway thing, reverse proxy, and web application firewall. What I appreciate most about the features is that you can have modules with Sophos UTM, so network protection including the reverse proxy, or that you can have a module for the email protection, a module for the network protection, and so on. At our own company, we also use Sophos UTM as a mail gateway, and we use it for the VPNs for the road warriors, providing remote access for employees. In terms of scalability, Sophos UTM is very good. You can have large appliances or small appliances, you can change them, you can have high availability clusters, so very, very scalable in my opinion. I can share specific outcomes regarding Sophos UTM; we've seen reduced costs certainly. Either the clients wouldn't have any security measures at all, just an ISP provided router, but those don't serve very well security-wise. Before choosing Sophos UTM, I evaluated other options including FortiGate, OPNsense, and SonicWall. My advice for others looking into using Sophos UTM is that it's really good to have fairly good knowledge of Linux because Sophos UTM is built on Linux and it helps debugging, it helps, for example, network tracing, and issue fixing. Other than that, get the introduction course and get ready to deploy. It's really easy. I give Sophos UTM an overall rating of nine out of ten.

I have experience with Sophos and other similar network products because we are a reseller of both Sophos and Huawei. I can answer questions about my opinions on Sophos or my experience. I have limited familiarity with the application control feature of Sophos UTM, as I only know and have experience observing it, not the management part. Some of my clients' companies use Amazon Web Services as a main cloud provider for their solutions. Sophos UTM pricing is competitive for both the license and the box from software and hardware perspectives. I would rate this review an 8 overall.

For an organization similar to ours, we recommend working directly with Sophos instead of going through a partner. Additionally, having regular webinars would be beneficial so that people can be trained and given insights. On a scale of 1-10, I rate Sophos UTM a 10.

Compared to other OEMs and other vendors' firewalls, Sophos UTM is very user-friendly. It has a user-friendly dashboard so that anyone, even a new beginner, can easily learn where the options are and how to configure UTM profiles. Different industries such as hospitality and manufacturing can have customized UTM profiles. The UTM is a granular and easy step, and non-standard categories can be manually added. Regarding pricing, it's affordable for the features that Sophos UTM provides; there is no higher price, it is affordable. When deploying on-premises, all customers have suggested this deployment type. Occasionally, there are certain failures; however, it's mostly user-friendly and reliable, with no major challenges in configuration. I definitely suggest checking it out. On a scale from one to ten, I rate Sophos UTM a nine.

I definitely recommend Sophos. I rate it a nine out of ten. Other firewall companies do not have antivirus development as well as Sophos. Sophos is unique in this regard, having developed its antivirus before the firewall, and now both are very good.

I've been recommending Sophos UTM to others, and I would continue to do so. Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten.

The platform requires regular monitoring. Overall, I rate it a ten.

Sophos UTM has improved our network's threat detection and response. It has been good so far because we don't have many attacks. We use the solution's web filtering feature for our organization's security. We use the firewall to protect our endpoint equipment and protect against any infiltration in our network. We also use the solution’s VPN feature. Around one or two people are required for the solution’s maintenance. I would recommend the solution to other users because it has helped us. The solution's installation and deployment are seamless, and its protection is secure. Overall, I rate the solution ten out of ten.

Sophos UTM is a good tool, especially for SMBs. Sophos UTM has a lot of features that enterprise-sized businesses ask for, but they don't really work very well. For SMBs, the product's features are very good. The setup phase of Sophos UTM can be carried out quickly. In Sophos UTM, it is easy to troubleshoot. I rate the overall tool a seven out of ten.

Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten. It's a good firewall solution for small and medium businesses, but it's not the best choice for businesses with complex security requirements. I would recommend that businesses carefully consider their requirements before choosing Sophos UTM. If you need advanced application control, you should look for a different firewall solution.

I'd not recommend this solution. I'd rate it a four out of ten.

It is easy to install and transparent solution. I would recommend using the solution. I would rate it a ten out of ten.

I recommend Sophos UTM, Sophos Access Points, Sophos Endpoint, and Sophos Switches to other users. Overall, I rate this solution a ten out of ten.

I recommend you complete the solution's training because it is pretty good. Rely on the documentation and any tech training available. I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

For sharing and mail security, the solution is very good. I'd recommend it to other users. I'd rate the solution seven out of ten. If they offered a better user interface, I would rate them higher.

I would rate Sophos UTM eight out of ten.

I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

For the time being, it is enough for us. As I previously stated, some companies that use Sophos may be unfamiliar with the full range of Sophos protocol offerings. Before you start implementing Sophos UTM be aware of the protocols. I would rate Sophos UTM an eight out of ten.

The maintenance of the solution is easy, the documentation is very rich in content, and the report information is good. I rate Sophos UTM an eight out of ten.

I'd rate the solution a seven out of ten. It's been okay. We are a partner of the product.

I'm a user and a consultant. I'd advise potential new users that they should let someone that knows how to do it set it up fast. You should work with someone that knows how to do it. I'd rate it an eight out of ten.

I recommend testing this product before purchase. It's a good solution and I rate it 10 out of 10.

I would only recommend this product to small businesses. I would rate this solution as a seven out of ten.

I'd recommend the solution to others. I would rate it nine out of ten.

I would advise starting with the basic firewall before adding other features. I would give Sophos UTM a rating of seven out of ten.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten. We are satisfied with Sophos UTM and will continue implementing it for the foreseeable future.

I would rate Sophos UTM as seven out of ten.

I rate Sophos UTM eight out of 10.

I would advise others that the Sophos Academy is really good. You can receive certifications from them. It is important to understand the requirements because some people who don't know much are afraid to use firewalls, and that's a problem. It's important to use firewalls and ask questions proactively about them. I rate Sophos UTM an eight out of ten.

I rate Sophos UTM seven out of 10.

I rate Sophos UTM 10 out of 10. If you're considering Sophos UTM, I would say go for it.

I rate this solution eight out of 10.

Sophos has an aggressive 360-degree security deployment. They are securing your mobile phone and data, both data security and also device security. They're on the cloud too, if you look at the company they really working hard on a 360 approach for security. The coverages they offer makes them robust. You can always start from somewhere, and then you scale up. You can start with their device management solution, or with their firewall, and then you begin to scale up with other features seamlessly. The flexibility they provide is also very good with Sophos, I can recommend Sophos confidently. I rate Sophos UTM a nine out of ten.

I rate Sophos UTM 10 out of 10. It's the most reliable solution in the firewall market. Considering the price and quality of the product, Sophos UTM is the best solution.

We are on the latest version of the solution. We are customers. I would rate the solution at a nine out of ten. We are very happy with it. I would recommend it to others. I'd advise new users that, if they are going to go with the cloud option, that issues related to maintenance is actually handled within the cloud. The rollout is pretty smooth.

We are a partner for all these products. We market these products to the end customers or the end users. We are both selling and implementing these products. We're partners with Sophos. There's a distributor in Pakistan called Softech Microsystems, and we have a silver-level partnership with them. We've been working with Sophos since 2019. In the financial market, however, Kaspersky is being used more than Sophos because of its credibility, integration, and extra features offered by Kaspersky. We always try to recommend Sophos as it's what we want, but sometimes, because we also carry a Kaspersky partnership, when a customer demands for Kaspersky, we have to let the customer test it and we have to give them a quote for Kaspersky. We also carry another product, e.g. McAfee, aside from Kaspersky and Sophos. Sophos UTM is a product I want to go further. I try to pitch Sophos UTM rather than Kaspersky or McAfee. I'm giving this solution a nine out of ten. Whenever we go for the public tenders, because there's no price flexibility, most of the time I find other products win. Although we have completed our POCs and all that, convincing customers to go with our product, but when it goes to the tenders: in the tenders they mention specification rather than mentioning a particular product, so we'll have to qualify. We qualify technically, but when it comes to the commercial opening or the financial opening, we fail.

I would rate Sophos UTM a strong eight. I'm not giving it a ten because they're putting all their efforts into the XG model, so the UTM model will probably be phased out before long. I love the security of the XG. It's better with artificial intelligence and all of this type of stuff, and you can manage it from the Sophos Central Cloud. But Astaro ASG, now Sophos UTM, was the first unified threat management system and everybody else was copycatted it. I think its web filtering's great. If there are any security vulnerabilities, it's the fault of the administrator configuring the product, not the solution itself. You can lock networks down tight with this if you know what you're doing.

We are customers and end-users. We came into the pandemic situation needing a VPN and the one offered by the Sophos behaves quite well. From the point of view of our users, it has been a positive experience. I don't quite know by heart the version of the solution, however, it's quite recent. It's not the newest one. I saw that the brand new one which came out this year and we don't have that. I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten.

I rate the solution eight out of 10.

There are two versions of the Sophos UTM. The old one is the SG, and the newer ones are the XG and XGS UTM, the next-generation firewalls. Sophos UTM was a rebranded solution that was bought from the Astaro company. It was one of the first UTM and was a very stable solution. Everything was inside a small box, you could start to enable or disable some functions, such as TCP, HTTP proxy, or firewalling. It allowed you to manage everything you wanted in this Unified Threat Management solution. It was a very nice multi-functioning security tool. If you adapted to the way of working with the UTM you could do everything with it. It was a nice solution. Sophos still allows the use of the SG UTM. For example, if you want to buy an XG Firewall, which is their new next-generation firewall, you still can purchase the older SG UTM. Sophos is able to still deliver this solution. I rate Sophos UTM a seven out of ten.

We're a custoer and an end-user. When Cyberoam was acquired by Sophos, we migrated to the new hardware and new solution in Sophos. We've been very happy with its capabilities. We would rate the solution at a nine out of ten. I'd recommend, if a company sincerely wants to try out Sophos, that they test everything before implementation. It will help them understand what the solution can do and how to implement it into their infrastructure.

My company is a reseller of Sophos. I haven't deployed one of their latest solutions yet. We just had a recent project for a basic firewall, and they were actually 210. That's the last project I had with Sophos. We are in the process of taking up certification exams for Sophos. I definitely recommend Sophos. It's one of our top products in the company. I'd rate the solution at a nine out of ten.

You are on the right track with Sophos UTM, but you should keep up with the trends as they become available. I would rate Sophos UTM a nine out of ten.

I am a Sophos customer. I'm using UTM for home use only. It's only four 50 IPS. I'd rate the solution at a ten out of ten. Overall, it's worked really really well. Everything from the updates to the signatures has been very helpful for our business. I would recommend this product to other users and other organizations.

We recommend this solution. We complete between 20 and 30 installations per month. I would rate Sophos UTM a nine out of ten.

I will continue to use and recommend the solution. I rate Sophos UTM a seven out of ten.

We are a manufacturing company. We're not a technology company. We don't need to have the very latest state-of-the-art technology, however, we want to try to be close to it. For us, Sophos is perfect. We also plan to use Sophos XG, however, we haven't implemented it yet. We're hoping it might be easier to configure and set up than UTM. Our antivirus, actually, was the antivirus that was managed by the UTM. Now they've since retired that capability, and they've gone to endpoint security software being managed in the cloud. Sophos Central can manage all of the Sophos security products, including all the firewalls, the endpoint security. Basically, you end up with one web interface for all of your security stuff. That's actually going to be a big feature, especially moving forward with XG, due to the fact that, if XG detects anything fishy going on, you can shut down individual client networks, and not allow any traffic to go through. Our Exchange ActiveSync is actually behind a Cisco firewall. We have a Cisco ASA also. We use the latest version of the solution. I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten. We've largely been satisfied with the product. As a company, you're looking to get the best solution out there. Once you have something in place, and it's worked well for you, and it hasn't cost you any excess money, you don't need to have too much contact with anyone. I rarely contact Sophos. That's a good indication of how good the product is working for us. If I was looking for something new, or if when maintenance comes up, and we've had hardware that's been in operation for a while, maybe we just need something new. Then you look and see if there's something out there that works better for you. That's basically it. We're not looking for anything new. We've actually been very happy with Sophos. I liked the way that there's a lot of good stuff there.

Sophos is good for small and mid-sized organizations. Big companies need solutions with layered security. Overall, on a scale from one to ten, I would give Sophos a rating of eight.

Sophos UTM is a comprehensive product that does the job that it should. They have another product now, called the XG firewall, that covers everything that UTM does not. The best part about this is that you can run the XG firewall on the same hardware where UTM is installed. This means that if you're thinking that Sophos UTM is not good for you, you can always migrate to the XG firewall. That said, I have never had a problem setting up UTM and can't think of a problem that I couldn't solve with it. Overall, UTM is good, but if you want something better that can handle more complex rules then you can use the XG firewall. My only complaint is that they limit the bandwidth, depending on the model. The suitability of this product depends on the customer's needs. If they don't need really complicated firewall rules, yet want to protect the network and want really good web filtering, then I recommend using Meraki. If on the other hand, they have a really complicated setup and want better filtering, then Sophos is the better option. Also, if you have your own web server or mail server on-site, then I recommend Sophos. If instead, you have a normal office network with mail stored in the cloud, then I recommend Meraki. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

This is a good product but there is always room for improvement. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

Overall, this product is very good and I recommend it for other users. I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

The solution has email firewall built in with all sorts of functionality, it is an absolutely excellent firewall, the logging is really good, you get great information about what's going on. It does things like GeoIP tracking and you can make decisions based on where people are coming from. It's just really a complete firewall. I would say if you're just starting right now, get the XG. Not that the UPM isn't outstanding, but it's disappearing. You might as well learn the XG. The product still works really well, although it's getting a bit long in the tooth. The sooner that they come out with the XG that can do everything that the UTM does, the faster the rest of the world will make the jump. I would rate this solution an eight out of 10.

We're just customers. We don't have a business relationship with Sophos. I can't remember the exact version of the solution I am currently using, however, I believe it to be around version 9. It's a good product, and I would recommend it, however, I would advise other potential users to instead maybe consider Sophos XG. Overall, I would rate the solution at an eight out of ten.

I would recommend Sophos, it is easy besides for the five-factor authentication. It is good for my needs. I would rate it a seven out of ten.

I would rate Sophos UTM a ten out of ten.

It's a good solution, I would say to go for it. I would rate Sophos UTM a nine out of ten.

I would recommend UTM over XG because it's easier to manage. On a scale from one to ten, I would give XG a rating of 6. Conversely, I would give UTM a rating of nine.

My recommendation is that businesses should go for the XG version, not the SG because the XG version of Sophos offers next-generation firewall support and has more improvements. Sophos XG is the next generation firewall that is not available on the UTM version. The difference is in the features between the two and how you deploy them. Sophos XG version covers what is in the SG version plus additional bonuses: the dashboard, the heartbeat between the firewall and the input, etc. I advise first evaluate, know your network, know your needs, and plan for the upcoming two or three years before you purchase. Get in touch with the vendors because these days every vendor wants to sell. They are willing to help the customers and willing to show them what they will get. Make sure you evaluate properly many platforms. Don't just go with one vendor. Go with two or three vendors. Evaluate and then short-list and choose the best for you. The rating has to have criteria: * On performance, I would give Sophos UTM a 10 out of 10 rating. * On price, it is a long discussion because you can get a discounted price if you are an integrator. * As a user and a customer, I would give Sophos UTM a 9 out of 10 rating.

Sophos UTM is a good product for security purposes and maybe if Sophos provided another company option to implement their products then I would say that Sophos UTM is great. On a scale of one to ten with 10 being the best, I would give this solution a nine out of 10.

We didn’t find any issues but I know there have been some in the last few years. I can’t comment about Sophos on AWS previously but they seem fine now. There were no problems for our client so all I can comment on is the experience they had. I think it’s taken a little while for Sophos to get experience in solving problems with their product in the AWS environment, but they do seem to go the extra mile. This solution rates an eight out of ten, based on our experience. Support was good. You will always find problems with installations so it does hinge on support.

If you're running a full Windows-based shop you're going to have a lot more options, so make sure you shop around. If you're running a Mac-based shop like we are, Sophos is definitely the way to go. Just make sure you can afford it. Regarding how well Sophos integrates with other products, so far we haven't integrated it with anything. We have it on the servers and we have it scanning our Amazon accounts, but that's it. The integration with Amazon is cool. Maybe they could work on that because it seems like a newer feature. You can see what's available but not really do anything yet. For the features, how well it works, and how easy it is to use, I would give Sophos a ten out of ten. Overall, I would give it a nine because it is very costly compared to all competitors.

When considering a new solution, I always make sure that there is good technical support. Also, the pricing is an important aspect.

The product works. It helps you identify threats within the environment. We were able to integrate it with different devices and the installation is straightforward. We are using the cloud-based version, but it is through Sophos directly. We are not using AWS. A lot of this stuff is also on-premise.

Consider the product, as it seems to be one of the top four. We use the both the AWS and on-premise versions. They are both good and about the same.

Going forward, we need to look at the provisioning pieces and the resource utilization. The AWS version is easier to provision than the on-premise version.

Do your homework. Compare products. Use what you need depending on your needs. We are only using the AWS version of the product.

It is definitely worth looking at. It is a pretty good product. It is integrated with our LDAP solution, and that integration is okay. Any LDAP integration can be hit or miss. It doesn't matter what it is, because it's LDAP. Since we use LDAP as a service, it's a little different, but it does work well. We use it for the AWS version.

I would recommend to take a look a product, as it is a good product apart from the improvements that I mentioned. We are very happy with the product so far. It is used as a standalone. We don't integrate it with other systems. We are using the AWS version of this product.

If you haven't tried it, do so. Amazon has their products (e.g., Amazon GuardDuty). However, when you are working in a multiple VPC environment along with digital enhancements and features, some of those enhancements and features are not always available with Amazon, but are with Sophos.

In India Cyberoam, which has been taken over by Sophos, has a vast support network and loyal user base. Migration to Sophos was the logical path. Further, pricing for the upgrade was very competitive as Sophos wanted to retain existing customers.

We do not use this on AWS. Before implementing the SG appliance, completely prepare the rules for your network; know what and where you want to implement.

They have supported our business venture since 2010, and will do for many years. We have studied closely the different product portfolio, and each one of them, are carefully developed.

Give us 10 minutes of your time, and we will show you the differences. When I do presentations, I give potential clients demo access to the solution(s) I am presenting.