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Sophos Firewall

Composite Score
8.4 /10
CX Score
8.6 /10
Category
Sophos Firewall
8.4 /10

What is Sophos Firewall?

Sophos Firewall’s Xstream architecture protects your network from the latest threats while accelerating your important SaaS, SD-WAN, and cloud application traffic. Sophos Firewall network security platform helps you consolidate and simplify your cybersecurity with a single vendor, cloud management console, and agent.

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Awards & Recognition

Sophos Firewall won the following awards in the Next Generation Firewall category

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Sophos Firewall Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

87 Likeliness to Recommend

97 Plan to Renew

83 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value


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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+91 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Sophos Firewall?

2% Negative
8% Neutral
90% Positive

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Respectful
  • Security Protects
  • Acts with Integrity

Feature Ratings

Average 82

Web Content Filtering

85

Virtual Firewall

84

Virtual Private Network

83

Network Access Control

83

Advanced Threat Protection

82

Application Control

82

Encrypted Data Control

82

Off Premise Cloud Firewalls

82

Sandboxing

81

Identity Based Control

80

DLP Functionality

75

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 80

Ease of IT Administration

84

Ease of Implementation

83

Usability and Intuitiveness

81

Quality of Features

81

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

81

Vendor Support

80

Breadth of Features

80

Business Value Created

80

Ease of Data Integration

80

Ease of Customization

78

Availability and Quality of Training

77

Sophos Firewall Reviews

Mohit S.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2025

A Scalable and user-friendly Sophos NGFW.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Sophos Firewall from other similar products?

Its built in VPN features which easy to configure and provide secure VPN capabilities, allowing users to access corporate resources remotely.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Sophos Provide affordable license pricing making very favorable for small and mid range companies.

What do you dislike most about this product?

As of now, there are no aspects of the product to dislike.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Highly recommended for its ease of deployment, user-friendly interface, and affordable pricing.

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy

Dhanaji M.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2025

A Cost-Effective Security device: Sophos Firewall

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Sophos Firewall from other similar products?

The deployment or configuration of Sophos Firewall is very easy and user-friendly. It is very cost-effective for small organizations.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Its ISP load balancing is very easy to configure. The license activation part is very simple and easy to activate.

What do you dislike most about this product?

As of now, there is no point in disliking the product.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Highly recommended for network security. It is cost-effective.

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Effective Service
  • Fair

Kyle l.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Dec 2024

A Security Powerhouse for Developers

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Sophos Firewall from other similar products?

It provides a single dashboard to monitor both, ensuring cohesive protection—a critical feature in a software development environment where sensitive client data is exchanged.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

In our development company, it flagged suspicious traffic from a misconfigured CI/CD pipeline trying to access unauthorized resources, which we resolved before any damage occurred.

What do you dislike most about this product?

setting up custom policies for our staging and production environments required considerable trial and error to align with our workflows.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Sophos Firewall is great for engineering teams that need robust security with visibility across endpoints and networks

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Enables Productivity
  • Efficient Service
  • Effective Service

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