Intercept X Endpoint Reviews

We primarily use the solution for endpoint protection. 

The endpoint protection capabilities are great. 

The security on offer is pretty good. We are happy with it. 

I love the threat management on offer.

Their AI is quite good.

We haven't had any issues with stability so far.

Sophos has a central management dashboard, which I'm happy about.

The installation process is very straightforward. 

I'm mostly quite happy with the solution. I haven't had any issues with it. 

From the firewall side, from the Intercept X to endpoint protection, everything is there, so there's nothing much that I can complain about.

The solution can be expensive, although we do see the value in it.

I've used the solution for over a year now. 

The stability has been good. There are no bugs or glitches. it doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable. 

We have over 200 employees on the solution currently. I haven't had any issues with scaling. 

I'm quite happy with the level of support on offer. 

We've used also AVG. We've used it in quite a few different places for different systems.

I found the implementation process sot be easy. It wasn't a problem at all. I did not find it to be overly complex or difficult. 

We have administrators and managers that can handle any technical stuff. 

We were able to handle the setup ourselves, in-house. We didn't need any integrator or consultant assistance. 

We have paid for three years of licensing. 

It is expensive, however, for what you getting out of it, from the firewall side and to endpoint protection, everything seems to be worth it.

I'd recommend the solution to other users and organizations. I'd rate it at a ten out of ten. 

We use a normal EDR solution in the office: Sophos Intercept X, for endpoint detection and response, email protection, and data loss prevention.

I've been using Sophos Intercept X for a long time, and I'm currently in my second year of using the solution.

Sophos Intercept X is a very stable solution.

My impression of Sophos Intercept X is that it's a scalable solution.

For the installation of Sophos Intercept X, we had to ask support from their sales staff. The installation process didn't take much time, as it was completed within an hour.

We implemented the solution through an integrator.

We pay for the Sophos Intercept X license annually.

We were initially using ESET.

I'm not yet satisfied with Sophos Intercept X, but I know how to use it. It's good for now, so I can't think of what I'd like to change in the solution.

We have up to 25 users of Sophos Intercept X, and one person in charge of the deployment and maintenance of the solution. For the installation, that person works with an external consultant.

I'm recommending this solution to others who may want to start using it.

I'm rating Sophos Intercept X an eight out of ten.

I find the security heartbeat feature with synchronized security very useful. It's a very nice feature that allows you to basically switch off an endpoint. When an endpoint has got a virus or something like that, or it's infected or compromised, you can isolate it from the network, but only if you've got an XG Firewall as well. 

It also provides ease of use. It is the only antivirus that can recognize 25 out of the 36 ransomware and virus techniques that have been often used in terms of the behavior base using heuristics. It's beautiful, utterly amazing. No other antivirus can do that. 

The pricing could be a bit lower to match the normal retail pricing.

I have been using this solution for the last four months. Currently, I am using the latest version.

It's really scalable. We easily did 5,000 installations in six hours. It's good at scalability.

Some of our SMB clients have 20 users, and some have around 200 to 300 users. A big enterprise client has around 5,000 users.

I don't set these products up, but they look pretty straightforward and simple to set up. The deployment of 5,000 users happened in around six hours. The deployment was obviously automated a little bit.

When you start going to the EDR technologies and the MTR, it is a little bit expensive. It's a very good technology, and obviously, you're going to pay for it, but the pricing could do a little bit of work.

I would definitely recommend Sophos Intercept X. It's the number one product in my go-to-market strategy. 

I haven't used it so much, but from what I've seen and played around with, it's a brilliant product. It has already got everything. It does what it's supposed to do and does it better than anyone else out there. If you look at Gartner Quadrants, they are at number three in terms of leaders. The Microsoft Defender ATP is number one.

I would rate Sophos Intercept X a nine out of ten. It is a beautiful product, and I love it.

Our primary use case is the interception solution in Sophos Intercept X.

We use Sophos Intercept X for Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) in our organization.

The future's about anti-malware, next-generation firewalls, and IPS. We value the IDS features of Sophos Intercept X the most. This is the best solution that we use and need.

Sophos Intercept X has room for improvement in the user management of live events.

They should work on the logs and events. Sophos Intercept X needs to increase the interface test so that it can export to a live event.

The stability of this solution was great. Sophos is a very powerful tool for all of our needs.

We have an enterprise company. There are branches all over the world. Support for 50 schools over the internet is what we're supposed to intercept. It is scalable.

We have about 500 end users. For deployment and maintenance, we require just a few people. It is done by me and one of my colleagues.

The technical support is not good because we are in Iran. We don't have any solidarity support from the company. We have some sanctions on. We just handle everything by ourselves.

Before Sophos, we had older hardware that was not able to handle this software. We decided to change the solution to the Sophos device.

The setup of Sophos Intercept X was straightforward. Our deployment took about two days, each day six to seven hours of work.

We have used both consultants and a reseller.

We renew the license for one year at $10,000.

Sophos Intercept X is easy to deploy. It has all the features for a small, medium, or large scale business. On a scale from 1 to 10, I would rate this product an eight. 

The security of other devices on Cisco is more reliable and stable, but the user control in Sophos is a feature that Cisco doesn't have.

Sophos Intercept X is primarily used as an antivirus. It's a next-generation antivirus solution.

It's quite useful.

The performance is good.

The installation process could be faster.

They can reduce the size of the software that is required. 

It would be beneficial if you could expand support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 without charging an additional fee.

I have been providing Sophos Intercept X for more than two years.

We began with an on-premises installation, the endpoint devices and PCs on the server, but the console is hosted in the cloud.

Sophos Intercept X is a stable solution.

Sophos Intercept X is scalable.

We have a few hundred users.

Our clients have contacted technical support.

The installation is straightforward, but occasionally, you encounter issues, and you have to perform the installation again.

We have two or three administrators to manage Sophos Intercept X.

Clients have to pay licensing fees. They offer both monthly and yearly licenses.

We sell MSP, manage service provider perpetual licenses.

On top of that, they have the option of purchasing additional features. They now include HDR, endpoint detection, and response features. That is an additional license that you can purchase and use with the same software.

I would recommend this solution to others who are considering using it.

It is cost-effective, I would rate Sophos Intercept X an eight out of ten.

This solution can be used with any device including mobiles, desktops, or any appliances.

When I use a proxy, I can bypass Sophos, which is an area that needs improvement.

We have been providing this solution for one year.

It's a stable product.

It's scalable. We have 50 customers.

Technical support should be faster.

The initial setup is straightforward. The installation is easy, and it's faster than SAP.

Sophos Intercept can be deployed in a couple of minutes.

It will take one hour to deploy it for a firewall, and only 15 minutes for the endpoint protection.

We need one engineer to deploy this solution.

The price is okay. It's comparable with other solutions.

You can purchase a license for one to three years.

I would recommend this solution.

I have no issues with this solution, I would rate it a nine out of ten.

We primarily use the solution for malware protection.

Without a doubt, this product has helped our organization. We've been deploying Sophos Firewall for probably 15 years now. We haven't had a lot of trouble, and prior to using the Sophos product, we were using a lot of Symantec products and occasionally some others. We have not had a lot of problems with infections. By that I mean, if we had three attacks over the 15 years I'd be kind of surprised, That's usually due to the fact that somebody was doing something stupid. Otherwise, we've been very well protected. Basically, if a lot of people are looking maliciously at any of our clients, they aren't getting very far.

The reporting is pretty good up on the Sophos side. We can see if anything's going on, at least from Sophos' perspective. 

The updates and a lot of the day-to-day fiddling that you would have to do with it, can all be done from the cloud so it's easy to manage, and very easy to administer. 

Occasionally, we do get noticed, however, we don't always get noticed, and I sometimes wonder is that just due to the fact that our client computers are tough to get at? We also deploy the Sophos Firewall on client sites, and it's relatively difficult for a bad guy to get in there.

We've been happy with it and we've been happy with the training that Sophos has. They keep us up to date on any changes that the solution has.

I don't know how many infections this protected us from. It might be nice to have a view of what has come at us. You're blocking certain types of traffic. It's not malware per se. You would get a message for this, however, you never really know if this was really a bad guy or just some 16-year-old who knows computers.

There's always room for improvement in pricing. 

From a corporate perspective and from a customer perspective, switching is very difficult to do. It's not an easy task. 

The number one thing I would like is if their support could be a little faster and it would be a little easier to get a hold of support when you need them.

I would like to see a templated selection of items that ought to be implemented, that right out of the gate, you can just turn on. This is what we recommend for standard workstations that are running under normal circumstances. It's not that you can't have a template in there. You can create your own template and stuff like that, however, they haven't yet spent a whole lot of time figuring out if you're in the, I don't know, medical business and you need HIPAA and you need this and that, these are all the standard things you ought to deploy. It would be ideal if you could just flip the switch, and it turns them all on.

Also, after you've turned this stuff on in mass like that, you sometimes don't immediately know what the problem is if they all of a sudden can't talk to vendor X. Like in banking, they get a lot of offsite services. You should be able to say "Okay, so I blocked them somehow with one of these things. I don't know which one it is, Help me find it so I don't have to turn everything off." Otherwise, I've got to turn off the whole thing and switch them on one by one, which is time-consuming.

I've been dealing with the solution for a year and a half. The company has been deploying Sophos for 15 years or so.

Thinking back on it, we only ran into maybe one bug in the whole time we've used the product. One time, when we upgraded Windows, it wasn't compliant and I remembered that my business partner told me that he had to go to Sophos for help. They quickly resolved the problem.

We've had very few issues. A company should not fear installing it. It's pretty reliable.

Our clients are all small businesses generally. The solution seems to be quite easy to scale in the market that we serve, which would be up to a hundred or so users. We haven't had any problems, however, I haven't deployed it for 10,000 users -which would be a totally different thing. Therefore, while it scales well for small businesses, I can't speak to how it would scale at an enterprise-level.

We do work with a university, and we do some work with a couple of different school districts in the San Diego area. We do some consulting for all three of those. If they asked us to recommend a product, we do recommend a product like this and we help people out with that sort of thing.

Technical support could be faster. We can't really get a hold of them when we need to. They really need to improve their services.

Issues get resolved quick enough. However, there are just issues that cause a lot of unnecessary back and forth. For example, we had a client for who we had installed a temporary license for Intercept X, and then subsequent to that, when we tried to put on the real license, bought it, paid for it, got the key, tried to plug it in, that worked fine. However, all of a sudden it started telling us it was having problems with the temporary license, which was supposed to have been replaced. That was a back and forth. It really took us about two weeks to get that resolved with them. Not a huge problem, not causing alarms that people were getting in, that shouldn't get in, however, I kind of thought somebody would get back to me in a day or two. It didn't take them two weeks to get back to me, but there was a fair amount of back and forth about how to resolve this.

I would say that the quality of the support when you talk to them is very good. I would rate that a nine out of ten. That said, the lack of availability at times of support is concerning, particularly if we were to have an ongoing hack. Sophos now offers a service where they will jump in there for quite a large fee and mitigate everything quickly. However, when you already have bought a product that's supposed to be doing that same job, it seems strange they would charge you again to actually do the job.

Having talked to some of those guys on the tech side, they are extreme. Those guys on that side are super knowledgeable and they can jump in there quickly and check a lot of things way faster than I could ever do it, simply due to the fact that they're so much more familiar with the product and with the way that attacks run.

I don't see them every day so, even though I go to training and I watch it on the training and so forth, it's not something that I fiddle with all the time. I simply don't need to, which is great. It keeps me a step removed from it.

We previously used Symantec among other products.

Symantec has changed a lot over the last 10 years. They used to be a totally different company. We were not only concerned about the product and the quality of the product and the availability of support and all of these sorts of things at first. However, they were also beginning to fall behind in terms of their technical capabilities on their product, and then we also already had a relationship with Sophos because of the firewalls, so it was a natural transition away from Symantec.

We were deploying the UTMs or what they call the SG line, and they've subsequently come out with the XG line, and if you have their cloud-based management solution, you can manage the XG line of firewalls with Intercept X, and they can look at each other's data and make decisions, AI kinds of decisions, or just scripted decisions, based on what the other is finding. It's much more advanced.

The initial setup isn't too difficult. Once you learn it, it's pretty straightforward.

There is a learning curve, and if you haven't learned it, and I would assume this is the same with anybody's product, then you're not really sure what options you want to enable and not enable and so forth. If you turn on too much stuff, let's put it that way, your end user's computer ends up running slowly. You have to be smart about what you're doing.

It doesn't have every function that's out there in the universe. However, it's really quite good and it's a reasonable value for the money compared to some of the alternatives that I've seen. However, I'm not super familiar with the alternatives. I know their names, I kind of know what they do, I read the reviews on your site and others, and we're always looking at it, however, I haven't really studied them.

We're Sophos partners and resellers.

We always deploy the latest version of the solution. We deploy the Intercept X Advanced with EDR.

All the management is done through the cloud. Then there's a client piece you put on, on-premises. We do the management through the cloud and we put the client piece on the premises.

I like a lot of the things that Sophos is doing. They didn't have one this year, however, they have an annual conference, and one of the things they had done, this was right before they got bought by this other company, is they had hired a lot of really top talent. These guys, when I was at the conference for a few days, just listening to them talk, you're mesmerized with how sharp and bright these guys are and what they're adding into the program. Not to say that others aren't getting some of this stuff too, however, it was really impressive. You felt like they had it together. You trust that by sticking with these guys, you're absolutely going to have minimal, to no issues at all.

I'd recommend the solution. It's a really good product. I realized that there are other good products out there and it's not that other companies shouldn't take a look at other products. However, it works, it does what it's supposed to do, and, once you learn it, it's easy to manage and the link to the firewall is really good and a great idea. It's smart to implement a single plan across people's networks. It just makes a lot of sense.

Overall, I would rate the solution nine out of ten.

Our primary use case is endpoint protection.

The most valuable features are the anti-ransomware engine, deep learning, web filtering, and the cloud manageability.

I would like to have a built-in firewall, rather than having to integrate one. Having both a personal firewall and an endpoint firewall would be an improvement. It does have firewall monitoring capability but it is integrated with the Windows firewall. Having their own endpoint firewall would be better.

We have been working with Sophos Intercept X for about two weeks.

With respect to stability, given that we have only been using it for a couple of weeks, it is too early to tell. That said, we have not experienced any issues so far.

Scalability has not been a problem.

I have not had any issues, yet, that necessitated contacting technical support.

Prior to Sophos, we were using a product by Symantec. The first difference is the deep learning or machine learning aspect. The second is the cloud administration capabilities. They both support cloud but the administration is better in Sophos.

The initial setup is straightforward.

I find the pricing to be a little bit expensive, although it is acceptable, for now.

The suitability of this product depends on the company and its environment, but for a company like us, I recommend Sophos. 

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.