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We performed a comparison between Ruckus Cloudpath 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.
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Pros
"Ruckus technical support is very good and helpful whenever we need them.""The solution has good features for authentication, policies, and allowing users to self-provision devices for network access via their logins.""The tool's most valuable features include the phenomenal functionality of DPSK. The ease of use, particularly when it is correctly set up, is remarkably simple. Tracking users is straightforward and dynamic. This allows us to identify where a user might encounter issues within the process.""I find the solution to be very rich in features.""The ease of use is great, and the automation wizards can do a lot.""The solution is easy to use, well designed, robust, and has good traffic capacity."

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"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 solution offers very good visibility.""The installation is very straightforward.""I found all Sophos Network Access Control features valuable, but IP blocking is the most useful.""Sophos Network Access Control has a useful interface, and I like its dashboard, which is very useful for us to check everything.""I am very satisfied with this solution overall. All of the features that we use have been working successfully.""There is really good visibility for the appliance.""Web protection, URL filtering, and application filtering are the most valuable features of Sophos Network Access Control."

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Cons
"The tool needs to support multi-vendor environments. Currently, my experience with it has been primarily within Ruckus environments. However, I haven't explored it for multi-vendor scenarios. It would be great to see newer builds that are multi-vendor capable of full integration.""I believe the solution is missing some great features which are present in other solutions like Aruba, UiPath, and Cisco ISE.""The hardest part we've had to deal with is trying to find some physical product recently as everything is going like hotcakes.""The setup process is a bit complex.""The solution could improve by adding more detailed information that customers have available on the dashboards.""The scalability could be better."

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"It would be good if Sophos Network Access Control had better integration with other devices.""The solution can improve the for applying policies. They can be complex depending don't the group they are applied to.""I would like to be able to fully customize the reports.""I would like to see mobile administration capabilities in the next release so that we can administer the device from a mobile device.""It would be beneficial to consider some improvements regarding the dashboard.""In order to provide better management, it would be ideal with they offered better plugins for their firewall.""The difficult thing was finding the metrics.""An area that could be improved is the information about licensing, which is fairly confusing at present."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The licensing of the solution is user-based and the price is good."
  • "The cost was somewhere around $700 for the access points, however, there was a discount."
  • "The pricing is a little bit high."
  • "I would rate the tool's pricing as a seven on a scale of one to ten. Compared to others, it's not overly expensive, but it does come with a cost. Since it's a licensed-based product, it can become expensive, especially if there is a need for additional licenses."
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  • "Sophos Network Access Control is costly but has a similar price range as CrowdStrike and Check Point. The product can get more market share if Sophos can play around with Sophos Network Access Control pricing and improve it."
  • "I rate the price of Sophos Network Access Control a five out of ten."
  • "Sophos Network Access Control is very cheap compared to other solutions like Cisco, Barracuda, and Palo Alto."
  • "It provides a moderate pricing option for all of its features and benefits."
  • "It is quite expensive."
  • "Sophos Network Access Control is an expensive solution."
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    Top Answer:The ease of use is great, and the automation wizards can do a lot.
    Top Answer:There are annual licensing costs and some extra costs for support fees. We have a bundle of licencing, including the support.
    Top Answer:Sophos Network Access Control has a useful interface, and I like its dashboard, which is very useful for us to check everything.
    Top Answer:I last used Sophos Network Access Control for user access control. I expected the solution to combine all of the network devices in our organization. We sometimes have problems with the solution's… more »
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    Overview

    Cloudpath Enrollment System is a software/SaaS platform that delivers secure wired and wireless network access for BYOD, guest users and IT-owned devices. It streamlines getting devices on the network and secures every connection with powerful encryption. Cloudpath software gives you granular policy control over what network resources users can access. It lets you deliver a great end-user experience and virtually eliminates helpdesk tickets related to network access. Choose from cloud-based or virtualized on-premises deployment. Cloudpath software supports any user, any device, and any network infrastructure.

    Sophos NAC Provides comprehensive, easy-to-deploy network access control that protects enterprise networks from the threats posed by non-compliant, compromised, or misconfigured endpoint computers. The software solution is vendor-neutral and works with existing network infrastructure and security applications. Computers are permitted or denied access to the network, based on a centrally defined, policy-driven assessment - and isolated, quarantined for remediation, automatically remediated, or sent alerts. Administrators can define and manage policies uniquely for managed and guest computers, including checking their security status and ensuring that no unwanted applications are run.
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    Top Industries
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    Computer Software Company15%
    Comms Service Provider12%
    Educational Organization9%
    Government7%
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    Financial Services Firm43%
    Manufacturing Company29%
    University14%
    Energy/Utilities Company14%
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    Computer Software Company14%
    Government10%
    Real Estate/Law Firm8%
    Comms Service Provider8%
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    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise19%
    Large Enterprise52%
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    Small Business75%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise13%
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    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise20%
    Large Enterprise54%
    Buyer's Guide
    Ruckus Cloudpath vs. Sophos Network Access Control
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Ruckus Cloudpath vs. Sophos Network Access Control and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
    763,955 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Ruckus Cloudpath is ranked 10th in Network Access Control (NAC) with 3 reviews while Sophos Network Access Control is ranked 7th in Network Access Control (NAC) with 9 reviews. Ruckus Cloudpath is rated 8.4, while Sophos Network Access Control is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Ruckus Cloudpath writes "Helps to onboard corporate users based on certificate-based authentication". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Network Access Control writes "Reliable with good security capabilities and an easy setup". Ruckus Cloudpath is most compared with Aruba ClearPass, Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Fortinet FortiNAC and Forescout Platform, whereas Sophos Network Access Control is most compared with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Aruba ClearPass, Fortinet FortiNAC, F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) and Forescout Platform. See our Ruckus Cloudpath vs. Sophos Network Access Control report.

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