We performed a comparison between Forescout Platform and Sophos Network Access Control based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Access Control (NAC) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The user management has been very easy for the most part."
"The most valuable features of ForeScout is the fact that it can do network access control either with 802.1x or without 802.1x."
"Provides a good overview of all devices on a network."
"The most valuable features of the Forescout Platform are ease of management and outstanding visibility. The visibility is simple to obtain."
"The product is very easy to work with and easy to deploy."
"The 802.1X compliance authentication feature of this solution is very good."
"The most valuable features of the Forescout Platform are NAC for sharing, Network Access Control, and port sharing of the devices."
"Obtaining visibility into the network and connected devices is very simple with this tool. It takes me three minutes to do a base deployment when all the parameters are available."
"The solution offers very good visibility."
"Web protection, URL filtering, and application filtering are the most valuable features of Sophos Network Access Control."
"Sophos has helped us to save time and money and to better manage web activities. It has also helped us to reduce misuse of the network and restrict hacking attempts."
"The most valuable features of Sophos Network Access Control are the quick response times to threats and reliable security."
"The installation is very straightforward."
"There is really good visibility for the appliance."
"Sophos' technical support is great, very fast and responsive, and they always know how to fix the problem."
"I found all Sophos Network Access Control features valuable, but IP blocking is the most useful."
"The fact that Forescout Platform doesn't have a presence in the South African region is a weakness because of which you can't ask for help from them if you have any problems."
"Although Forescout manages endpoints and network devices, there is no capability for user management."
"The reporting feature needs improvement."
"They need to handle their Tier 1 cases differently. The biggest negative regarding Forescout is their support. Not having the ability to get instantly transferred to a support engineer for Tier 1 cases is pretty ridiculous."
"As a product, there is nothing to complain about. However, they should improve their overall support. You need that level of knowledge, that level of information is clearly not available. First and foremost, that information is not accessible. The second point to mention is that once you purchase the later support and services. That is, they will continue to charge you for every service."
"Forescout Platform could improve the vulnerability management as well as the control on the endpoint, which needs to be connected to my network."
"In the next release of the solution, it could benefit from being more flexible to allow for more freedom."
"The licensing costs are quite high. With the amount of hardware we have, we need too many licenses to make the product effective and it's ultimately just too costly."
"The solution could increase the integration with other platforms or other systems. This would be very useful."
"I would like more details on the incoming connection, like what is the download speed and how it fluctuates. If Sophos can give that information, it would be really good."
"It would be beneficial to consider some improvements regarding the dashboard."
"It would be good if Sophos Network Access Control had better integration with other devices."
"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."
"In order to provide better management, it would be ideal with they offered better plugins for their firewall."
"Sophos Network Access Control requires a lot of resources to work, which is an area for improvement. Pricing could also be improved because it's costly."
"The interface on the cloud could be a bit better - just to give more performance on it."
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Forescout Platform is ranked 3rd in Network Access Control (NAC) with 69 reviews while Sophos Network Access Control is ranked 8th in Network Access Control (NAC) with 18 reviews. Forescout Platform is rated 8.4, while Sophos Network Access Control is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Forescout Platform writes "We can go granular on each endpoint, quarantine non-compliant machines, and target vulnerabilities through scripting". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Network Access Control writes "Reliable with good security capabilities and an easy setup". Forescout Platform is most compared with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Aruba ClearPass, Fortinet FortiNAC, Nozomi Networks and Armis, whereas Sophos Network Access Control is most compared with Aruba ClearPass, Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Fortinet FortiNAC, F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) and Ruckus Cloudpath. See our Forescout Platform vs. Sophos Network Access Control report.
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