Sophos UTM Valuable Features

AH
Owner / Network Security Engineer at Texarkana IT

The packet filtering's great. You get out what you put into it. It works great as long as you know your security and configure everything adequately. If you just pop one in and it's not configured, then it's basically wide open. It kind of depends on the admin skill, but it's an excellent product.

UTM has sand-storming, got dual inline virus scanning, filtering, DNAT, translations, etc. You can implement Google Safe Search for schools and stuff.

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SherifFouad - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT Manager at a mining and metals company with 1,001-5,000 employees

From Cyberoam and the early builds of Sophos SG, they have developed higher integration between Sophos UTM and the computers' endpoint antiviruses. We can isolate the infected machine from the network, but an IT technician or cybersecurity professional can remove it from the machine and disinfect it. 

It has the capability of blocking HTTPS traffic, but you need the Sophos Central Intercept X subscription for that. It gives us the ability to manage our firewalls from the cloud and deploy a unified configuration onto them. Other competitors like Meraki have that ability, but they fail to optimize it in the way that Sophos has.

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FS
Account Executive at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The firewall in general is very good. It is comparable to other firewalls. 

Since any environment needs a firewall, it's been helpful in its ability to be highly granular in its configurations. 

Sophos is a security-focused company, which I like. I like that all Sophos products can essentially talk to each other. For example, if a computer has the Sophos antivirus, and it detects something, it actually talks to the Sophos firewall and says, "Hey, I think something is going wrong on this computer." Then, the firewall goes, "You know what? I'm going to shut it down for a while. I'm going to close off all incoming and outgoing connections from that unit until an IT admin comes in and tells me to release it."

It's very scalable.

The solution is stable. 

The initial setup is pretty straightforward. 

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JN
Technical Services Lead at Telenet Solutions

The most valuable features of the solution are application filtering and web filtering.

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BS
IT Administrator at Vegol

It's a little bit easier to use. It's user-friendly, and then there's a lot of documentation for it online, so it's easy to manage without necessarily dealing with a big learning curve. It is easy to understand, basically.

If you need to troubleshoot, everything is basically on Google. 

The solution is stable. 

It's a scalable product.

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sugoi - PeerSpot reviewer
Server analyst at EJCLME Inc.

The firewall itself is very strong and provides great security for the internet. Some clients don't use any other special feature but all customers depend on the firewall as a secure gateway.

A lot of thinking went into the user experience because the UTM interface is streamlined, good, and feels like a web application. It does have hiccups here and there but effectively treats everything as an object. You can quickly see where objects are being used or referred to and change them. 

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HP
Network Security Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

The features that I have found most valuable in Sophos UTM are its scalability and feasibility, as well as the quality of its customer service, followed by the ease of maintenance and configuration of the product itself.

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AH
Head of IT

The management suite is easy and the agent is easy to develop.

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NA
Head of Operations at Intersect Technologies

One of the features of Sophos UTM that I find valuable is its user authentication functionality.

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WA
Management Board Member and Network Engineer at NewLogics

I like the simplicity of Sophos UTM and the web filtering features.

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Walid Fawzy - PeerSpot reviewer
Network and System Engineer at Al-Watania Poultry (Egypt)

What I like about Sophos UTM is that it improves my company's security. The solution is easy to set up, which I like, and it's very stable.

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NAGESWARARAO KORUKONDA - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager IT at KMV Group

The protection on offer is pretty good.

Direct controller management has been quite useful.

It offers reasonable pricing.

The scalability is good.

It is stable. 

Technical support has been fine. 

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YA
Network and Security Engineer at ONB

The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the efficiency and mail filtering module.

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WY
IT Engineer at Wise Communication

It's an easy solution to learn because the graphics are very intuitive. I really like the log because of the amount of information it provides.

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Mohammed_Sajid - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Network Administrator at abl

The solution's sandboxing, application center, and database engine are good. 

The endpoint device detection tool integrates very well with Edge devices. 

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Fathi Kharfi - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Network & Technical Support at Tadhamon International Islamic Bank

The product is easy to manage and easy to install. It's straightforward to manage.

It is stable.

The solution is scalable. 

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TG
It manager

The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is reporting, it is flexible. I can monitor the end user's devices, even when they are not on my network. It has good drill-down capabilities.

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HS
IT Technician at Wm tech

The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the simple-to-use interface.

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Rana Chaudhury - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at KARLE INFRA PRIVATE LIMITED

Sophos integrates seamlessly and we don't even feel it is running in the background. 

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FR
Occupational safety technician at Concremat

The web filtering is great.

The initial setup has been fine. 

You can increase usage if you need to.

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Wisnu Nursahid - PeerSpot reviewer
General Manager of Technical Division at VTI

Sophos UTM's best feature is SIM in the cloud, which combines the gateway solution and endpoint solution to send telemetry data to the cloud and provides full contact visibility regarding security.

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VM
Assistant Manager IT Zircon Technology at Zircon Techonolgy

The solution is easy to handle and configure. 

The product also offers remote deployment capability with a Sophos SD-RED device. 

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MA
Senior Network Engineer at Dejpaad

The mail security is very good. 

It's quite stable.

The solution can scale. 

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RR
Head of Data Link at Telecom Egypt

It's easy to use.

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Saurabh Bhansali - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT at Venus Jewel

Sophos UTM has a good user interface and granular security controls.

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DE
System Administrator

I like the web filtering options and the link to Sophos antivirus (Close all connections from-to infected PC).

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Faruk Ahmed - PeerSpot reviewer
Support Engineer at Ensure Support Services Limited

Sophos UTM's best feature is synchronized security.

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TI
Senior Network Security Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Sophos UTM's most valuable features are profiling and its simple configuration.

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Buyer's Guide
Sophos UTM
February 2024
Learn what your peers think about Sophos UTM. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: February 2024.
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