We used to use Cyberoam 200ia. It required to an upgrade due to end of life and the changed requirement of its organisation.

I've used multiple other solutions. At one point in time, we were going to replace all of our Sophos units with Meraki, but I canned that completely because they're incomparable. I also compared the Sophos firewall with other virtual firewalls, but that's a bit unfair because that's an on-premises device and the others are virtual. I've used Microsoft Azure Firewall and Sophos Azure Firewall, but I canceled Microsoft Azure Firewall.

We compared Sophos with Cisco Meraki, and we chose Sophos. On the virtual side as a UTM, I compared Sophos XG for Azure with the Microsoft firewall for Azure. Sophos won on the cost side, which I consider to be a minor cost. 

In terms of benefits, features, and ease of configuration, Sophos won.

We have the Juniper SRX firewall, for local zones, process zones, and server zones.

I previously used Kaspersky. I switched to Sophos UTM because of the features that it is offering.

I have experience with Fortinet FortiGate, Check Point, and Cisco ASA. My company uses different products depending on the preferences of our customers.

We use Sophos Access Point, Sophos Firewall, Sophos Switches, Sophos MDR, and Sophos XDR. We have been using Sophos MDR for three years.

When compared to Trend Micro has a compact and bundle layer, whereas Sophos allows us to select the module. The module layer can be separated. For Trend Micro, we buy as a bundle purchase and they will give us everything.

The solution is being discontinued. Hopefully, whatever they replace it with will be very good for small businesses as well. 

Before Sophos UTM, my company used Cyberoam. Sophos UTM has more than one feature, such as VPN, application access, NAT, and SSL inspection. It has more features than Cyberoam, and I can find all that I need in Sophos UTM compared to Cyberoam.

I have used Fortinet previously and I found it to be easier to deploy and maintain than Sophos UTM

We worked with Cisco mainly in the past. When we went to renew with Cisco, we found the pricing to be quite high. We're happy now with Sophos. We have no interest in switching to anything else.

We have used other solutions. We have various levels of firewalls. 

I also use FortiGate.

We worked with SonicWall many years ago. We then switched to Cyberoam and then we primarily used Cisco Firepower. There were support issues with Cisco and it wasn't easy to find the KB articles and training was lacking. Even the training personnel had problems when we had issues with implementation. The same thing happened when we used Palo Alto with the support being the biggest problem. It was so unstructured and I hope that has changed in the last 12 months. When it comes to firewalls we are happy with two products; Fortinet is our preference but when you take cost into account, we prefer Sophos. 

I have used many, such as SonicWALL, Cisco, Juniper, WatchGuard, and FortiGate. Sophos is consistent and deep in their solutions and I like a consistent platform and support.

I have previously used Sophos Cyberoam, XGS, and XG solutions. Additionally, I have used Check Point solutions.

Recently, I've used a lot of Fortinet products. 

I am currently using Symantec for my own workstations and I use Sophos for my server Endpoint protection.

SonicWall used to be our primary choice of firewall. I am just an engineer and I do not have control over which products we use. We started using Sophos Antivirus, then they eventually sold us on firewalls, encryption, mobile control, and a lot more of their products. The synchronized security model is really what was sold flexible to the product.

I have used other Sophos solutions, such as Sophos XG UTM.

We currently use a few Cusco solutions. We had a SurfControl web filter previously - a standalone server for that. We also had an email filtering package, that was on a separate server by itself. We found that the Sophos UTM did both of those things, and it gave us a firewall, and it saved us money. That's largely why we switched. The downside to Sophos is the reporting wasn't as good, however, everything else was better.

There was nothing wrong with the other solutions that we had other than it would cost us twice as much money to get a lot fewer capabilities. We don't really have the manpower to fully utilize those other solutions in great detail, which is why a simple web filter and email filter that was built into the Sophos solution worked for us. Plus, it does a lot more than that. We could run everything through it. We could - and we may do this - move away from using the Cisco solutions altogether, and just use the two Sophos firewalls. Once we get the XG up and running, we can upgrade the UTM to XG also and have the two XG firewalls in our two locations, and use it for the LAN connection between the locations. I don't know that we'll do that, however, it's definitely something that we can do. It's just a lot of additional capability and flexibility. 

I'm also familiar with Meraki. Sophos, however, has the ability to talk to other Sophos products. 

Meraki would be all isolated, meaning you have a different antivirus. It'll try to block and scan and do its thing, however, the firewall will always allow the connection to go through. Nothing is stopping it from isolating it. From a Sophos perspective, every single thing talks to each other, whether it's Sophos Central, Sophos email security, Sophos antivirus, or Sophos firewall.

They all talk to each other and look at how attackers come in because attackers don't just, poof, appear on a computer. There's a route it needs to take and different layers of protection it has to go through. If all of your layers, your roads, and everything is all Sophos, they all jive, and that's great.

We also use Fortinet and pfSense.

We previously used Cyberoam but Sophos acquired Cyberoam. That's why we migrated to Sophos.

As we are a service provider, we offer various other products to our customer:

• Astaro ASG
• Avaya/Netscreen
• Fortinet
• HP Switches & WiFi
• Juniper SSG
• Juniper SRX 210 & 240
• Juniper WXC
• Sophos next generation SG, including RED, SG, and WiFi
• Telindus Crocus E1Q

No, we didn't. It was our first choice and it was definitely a good one.

I switched to Sophos as it is more reliable.

We were using something else, but we switched to Sophos because it's politically neutral. 

Previously we did not have any integrated solutions. We had an antivirus of one kind, and a firewall of another. It was a good step for us to integrate all these features into one solution.

Yes. Earlier, we had used Checkpoint. But the deployment procedure and user interface for Checkpoint was very complicated. The amount of time to invest in checkpoint is nearly 2x than Sophos. Checkpoint requires tool to be installed on your system while Sophos is a browser based tool.

We previously had Cyberoam. After Sophos acquired Cyberoam, we purchased new Sophos hardware devices.

We used a commercial product, Untangle, with our own brand called Rhino Box. Untangle did not invest in the development of features as we expected, such as the adoption of IPSec VPNs (they had it but very limited), and IPv6. This was what made us do research for our SMB/Enterprise market offering. We tried out Sophos UTM (recently purchased as Astaro UTM) and it was really easy to deploy and came with Sophos Support, which is awesome.

I previously worked with Microsoft BMG. At the time we switched, Sophos was the better option. We needed a solution that was easy to manage and Sophos fit the bill in that sense. Microsoft didn't really offer any support. Sophos also was integrated with a directory and a single sign-on.

We're actually looking at switching to Sophos XG in the near future. The main difference between the two lines of Sophos products is the level of support provided. XG offers more of what we need. We may also eventually move to a Huawei firewall.

Before we were using Cisco solutions, we switched because of the lack of UTM features.

We did originally try to use PFSense. The software was hard to use, and the level of technical expertise was not good. Ultimately, after several demos of both products, we decided that Astaro (at the time we purchased our original device) was the right vendor to work with. Since that time, Sophos purchased Astaro and it would appear that they kept a lot of the same people working on these devices because the transition was smooth, and the level of knowledge never faltered.

We did not use a different solution before this one.

We used to use SonicWall. I still think its a good product though its web filtering and SMTP filtering were no where near as good as Sophos UTM. The reason we switched was the partner relationship between Dell and the IT Solutions company soured.

Cisco (didn’t achieve expectations), Microsoft TMG (end of life).

We've tried numerous other solutions. Cisco, and some of the other major ones that were out there, but once we started using this, it was so much better in so many ways, we just dumped all the others.

I did. Sophos UTM is far more easier to configure and it is very intuitive with configuration.

For this project, the Sophos infrastructure has been planned and deployed from the start and there has been no need to change it

SonicWALL was our previous product, and we switched to Sophos because of its ease of use.

We have experience with Sophus, as well.

Originally Cisco 871 IOS IP Advanced Security, then Juniper SSG20, which was getting old and service contracts were too expensive.

I did take a look at other open source solutions, but found the Sophos UTM, being the best professional free for Home UTM solutions, full blown, and updated daily, to be the best solution.

i used PFSense, the capabilities of UTM sophos y very much higher and powerfull.

No previous solution. For next-gen firewalls, I began with Sophos.

Previously, we were using WatchGuard UTM. The pricing and ease of use of the configuration were the reasons as to why we moved over to this solution.

It was not a change; in general, we have used many firewall vendors, but no one is as good as Sophos UTM.

Previously used the OpenSource pfSense which works great, but Sophos adds the little extra that is needed in security.

We have been using this solution since it was the Astaro Security Gateway (/products/sophos-utm-reviews ).

We did, and we switched due to the costs and the functionalities.

We were using an offsite solution that was at least 20 times the cost over a year.

I’ve used other products like NetboxBlue, SonicWALL in my previous roles. We chose the Sophos UTM because of pricing, rich feature set and the fact that it can be either a Virtual App or Hardware Appliance.