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.

• A good package overall
• A nice UTM appliance with a good GUI and reports.
• Configuring web access controls in the appliance is a bit typical and requires debarring and listing separately. Once configured, the solution works beautifully.

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.

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

It is stable.

The solution is scalable. 

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. 

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

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

The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the endpoint protection feature.

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

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

Sophos UTM is the simplest of these products to setup. If you follow the instructions using the wizard, which is just a few steps, then you will have a firewall to protect you and your customer.

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

It's easy to use.

The solution's user interface is very user-friendly. It's very easy to navigate.

They have an all-in-one product for small businesses. Basically, I do not want to manage the firewall for four products. I'll take it all in one. It makes everything easier to manage. 

It's really good and it's been working really well over the last few years. 

The initial setup has been very simple and straightforward. 

The stability, overall, is excellent. I haven't had a problem in the last two years.

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. 

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

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.

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

All of Sophos UTM's features are valuable. The intrusion prevention is great, and I like dual virus scanning on the network layer because we scan it through Avira and Sophos. Web filtering is also a fantastic option for clients who want to really lock down internet access. And of course, it has the basic firewall features like port blocking and all of the stuff that most standard firewalls include.

The isolation of infected machines is a big feature. Also, the ability to detect external sources that change files on a file server is really big.

The third key feature is something called EDR. It's a type of advanced file analysis. If you aren't sure what a file is you can click on it and it will upload a sample to Sophos and it will respond saying, "That's malicious," or "Not malicious." You can see every individual file and registry key that that file has ever interacted with, and what they did. It will show you every single thing it's done to the machine so you can clean up everything or check everything that it has ever touched. You don't have to worry about, "Oh, did I clean everything up?"

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.

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.

The solution is quite stable. 

The scalability has been great.

The initial setup is straightforward.

Technical support is very responsive.

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.

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

The fact that it's on the cloud means we don't have to administer it on our network or deal with a physical machine, which saves us money.

The solution has many great features.

From the console, we can start different scannings on different machines. We enjoy the centralized reporting part of it. 

The initial setup is simple.

We enjoy its general stability.

The solution can scale.

So far, the solution has been problem-free.

To be quite honest, from my personal experience all the features of Sophos UTM are useful, which includes publishing templates and the ease of publishing any servicing needs. 

From the VPN side, all the VPN protocols are available so you can choose from SSVPN to PPTP to other versions of VPN, and it's easy to deploy within minutes.

The firewall includes very good logging where you can see what's hacking your network. The IDS and IPS settings are based on your reliance and also alerts you if there is an attack. 

We're happy with Sophos and we also have an XG version being used for other services, because we are a company that provides services. We have two versions, we have the XG and the latest one. 

The Sophos UTM which is the previous version but still being in production is our main firewall for the company.

We happy with all the features, we have no negative comments on any of the features except that the XG has more ability to block based on countries.

On the previous model, the blocking of countries we had a problem with, i.e. if you use the NAT feature, you can't block countries. You have to enter the IP network. 

With the XG version, you can just select when you publish via NAT not via WAF. You can select the countries. 

That is the only difference between XG and the UTM which we did not really like, but other than that its all cool.

The solution has many good features. There was a steep learning curve moving to version 18 but we're now at a point where the solution is more efficient and effective. When talking about VLANs the solution makes it easy to separate rules for everything. The solution is easy to use with simple implementation.  

Proven UTM technology, excellent security and threat management are valuable features. The fact that I can provide scalable solutions for a SoHo environment on a small appliance, run on my own PC/server or even a virtualized environment allows me to accommodate almost any business, regardless of size. The software works in the same way across all the models. I have managed all my clients via the Sophos UTM Manager, a centralized console. I am a MSP, so having a centralized system to managed and maintain all of my client UTM firewalls is just gravy.

Customers appreciate the extensive built in reporting, rock solid IPS and security features. Coupled with a centralized Wireless and Remote Ethernet Device (RED) Device extends my service offerings. Lastly, the Total Protect bundle offers an affordable, comprehensive solution for the SMB market.

Sophos UTM is a robust solution and it provides flexibility.

Its scaling capability.

Sophos has a single pane of glass which allows me to manage all my VPCs from a single instance, managing all my firewall from one place, which is huge for me. When you have multiple VPCs and multiple accounts, it becomes too cumbersome to use a product that you have to look at individually. With Sophos, I can look at one place and see everything: my logs, filters, firewall rules, etc.

The most valuable features of Sophos UTM are the ease of use, it is very user-friendly. You can understand what they implement in the new firmware, and it's easy to manage the firewalls.

When I implement a solution, I have to teach the customers how to use it and when I have used other solutions, such as Check Point, it was difficult.

Sophos UTM has good integration with wireless and endpoint solutions

At the moment we have deployed the web filtering application as they have their own web servers and their email protection. The web filtering is great. At the moment, we haven't heard any negative feedback from the client.

There is plenty of documentation that can help you check scenarios or different situations that might you have.

The stability is great.

The cost of the solution is very reasonable.

The UTM/SG platform starts off with the basic functionality of being a good Firewall, adding the additional modules opens up the products set and allows for full web filtering and application control, reverse proxy, APT detection, IPS, VPNs, User portal etc.

The licensing model works very nicely to allow you to get the right protection at the right price point for the right deployment size.

In the increasingly cloud focused word the Sophos UTM’s ability to deliver Safe web access, Web Filter and Cloud Application control has gone from being a nice to have to being a must have for any size company or organization. The rich access logs it records allows you to get real insight into what your users and devices are accessing on the cloud. Native reporting is basic, but can easily be improved by adding Fastvue Sophos Reporter.

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

The most valuable feature is ransomware protection. It is known for ransomware protection.

In terms of additional features, I'm still getting to understand more about how it works.

Classic defence in depth, with layered features. 

• SPI (stateful packet inspection)
• IPS
• WAF 
• VPN capability with built-in load balancer

Nothing out of the ordinary these days, but the fact Sophos has such a big name and good support was a big plus for the client who already had a relationship with Sophos support. Also, auto-scaling of UTM workers using EC2 is a nice and handy feature.

UTM 9 brings along IPSec as well as iPhone and iPad support. This seems small but it’s useful. 
Finally, Cold Standby CloudFormation script to one node, with persistent info in S3, is a convenient feature.

The most valuable to features are: Web Application Firewall, Sophos UTM Manager, IDS/IPS, Remote Access, and RED.

1. WAF: This is excellent for hardening web servers. The firewall will reverse proxy your web servers, eliminating the need to open ports. Instead the firewall will run an instance of Apache and proxy all traffic to and from the real web servers. (This is also handy when you have a single public IP.)
2. SUM: The Sophos UTM Manager is a must have for any MSP. The SUM is a centralized portal for quick access to all the firewalls you manage. This also keeps track of who logs into the firewall by AD account. It is great for keeping track of a help desk, and who is making changes.
3. IDS/IPS: General Intrusion Prevention and detection. It works very well.
4. Remote Access: VPN access is always a need, and the UTM includes this free with all their license models. A very nice feature that I use a lot is the HTML5 portal. The portal allows you to have web-based access to resources behind the firewall. The best use for this would be when a client does not have any servers on-site. You can set up the HTML5 portal with SSH/Telnet to manage switches on-site, all done through the browser.
5. RED: REDs simplify the setup for multi-location clients. A license is not required for a RED, and only one UTM is needed. REDs are great for mobile sites, as they can be tossed in a bag and can run off 4G/LTE. Configuration is effortless, and they create a direct tunnel back to the main office, getting you up and online in no time.

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.

Sophos SG UTM had all the basic functionality that you needed. It is user-friendly and easy to manage for any integrator.

The web and email filtering are the two biggest and most valuable aspects of the solution for us.  

The solution overall has just been a good, cost-effective solution for us.

The solution offers a lot of functionality.

The solution scales well.

We've found the technical support to be helpful.

The stability and performance are quite good.

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

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

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. 

The web filtering is great.

The initial setup has been fine. 

You can increase usage if you need to.

The three most important features for us are web protection, web server protection, and network protection.

The features that I've known to be the most valuable are both the web security features as well as the web firewall capabilities. As a partner of Sophos firewall, we have some clients that are using Sophos firewall UTM and we use it as well.

As both a firewall and UTM it's perfect.

1. The VPN side of it.
2. The ease of configuration of the VPN.
3. Some of the end user self-serviceability of it without having to have a whole lot of touch from our operational group

• The combination of server protection
• Seamless incorporation with AWS
• Its VPN feature

The most valuable features of this solution are:

• High Availability between IPsec site tunnels provides a valid continuous connection and ensures we have no downtime affecting our business.
• Log Viewer allows me to monitor all incoming and outgoing traffic, as well as view and block vulnerabilities.

During the pandemic, telework grew, however, so did attacks. There was a higher degree of ransomware and so on. With Sophos, we have not had any incidents this year. The security provided has been good. It has proven to be okay for our needs.

The initial setup is very simple.

The solution is stable.

the scalability is good.

Valuable Features include Sophos Remote Access VPN, Country Based Firewall, Web Application Firewall, Ease of access (via browser) and Reporting.

Sophos UTM provides security for our network here and access through a VPN connection for our remote users. It also offers the flexibility to create different tools for accessibility.

Sophos has great security features and does a good job of protecting my network. The firewall feature is very, very good. 

The web filter and the ATP (Advanced Threat Protection) are great and easy to manage, and the integrated WAF (Web Application Firewall) allows the administrator to seamlessly protect HTTP/S services without having to pay thousands of dollars. The just introduced Sandstorm system for protection, is awesome as well.

It provides a solid firewall.

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.

The content filtering is the solution's most valuable aspect.

The initial setup is pretty easy.

The solution is pretty easy to manage.

Application layer filtering.

• Email and web proxy: for filtering unwanted emails and spam, and for web content and malicious url filtering
• SSL VPN and two-factor authentication: for secure remote access
• Layer 7 app control: for blocking P2P (ex. BitTorrent) and media streaming content 
• WAF/reverse proxy: for securely publishing web applications and protecting Exchange services 
• WAN load balancing: for multiple Internet connection management

• Firewall
• NAT
• Intrusion prevention
• Site-to-Site VPN
• Web filter
• Anti-virus

All the features are valuable.

• Web protection: Allows me to control unnecessary web traffic into the company network.
• Email protection: Protects the company from spam and malicious emails.
• RED and VPN: Provides an easy and secure way to connect branch offices so I can easily control them.
• WAF and DMZ: Provides an easy and very secure way to publish your internal servers. Enables you to have more than one WAN and to use them for load balancing and controlling the traffic through them.

Firewall and Web Protection

Advanced Threat Protection is a good "dashboard" feature to see if there is any network issues

Sophos UTM's best feature is synchronized security.

The overall visibility of the console is what I find most valuable, plus it's very user-friendly. It can be integrated with other solutions such as SOAR, SIEM, etc., even when you have an existing firewall. I really like that the console can be integrated. You'll see everything on the same window, and the single window feature of the machine is so good. These are the features I really like.

It meets our compliance needs for antivirus.

Our policy is launch and forget. It works well without any maintenance. So far, it has worked pretty well regardless of the traffic.

Reverse proxy, SSL VPN, web & email protection

For me, those features were most valuable from a security point of view;

• Reverse proxy is very important for shielding application frameworks.

• For VPN, we all knew that PPTP was broken and is not secure anymore. For Ipsec, you need to have opened ports, and if you are in a hotel who only has ports 80 and 443 opened, you can’t do anything.

SSLVPN is one of the solutions. Yes, you can use DirectAccess, but there are some limitations, too.

For DirectAccess, you need to have all those computers joined in one domain.

• Web & email protection is a nice feature because you have all of those controls in one dashboard. This is of course for small and maybe some mid-size companies. For larger and enterprise, it’s another story.

I would say the email for sure and the basic firewall functions are great features. It also has advanced firewall scanning. If you receive a file, you can have it scanned through Sophos. It's a really complete product.

• SSL VPN
• HTML5 VPN portal
• Application control
• Reverse proxy
• Web filtering

• Reliability
• Usability
• Number of features that fully cover goals
• Perfect support
• Possibility to get “under the hood”

The web application firewall and web filtering. We are using the UTM to be the gateway for the private cloud solutions we offer.

The mail security is very good. 

It's quite stable.

The solution can scale. 

• Sophos UTM Manager (SUM): It allows us to manage over 50 Sophos UTM devices from a central management console. 
• Creating rules, exceptions, and managing most features from SUM, and pushing to all or a section of devices as needed.

The most valuable feature is that it is easy to administer. 

• Using the Home version to help Sophos develop the XG. I have not used the earlier UTM, which colleagues have recommended.
• The UTM features are reasonably strong and the patterns are updated on a regular basis
• Supports all the traditional firewall components

The IPS and endpoint protection function.

A standard Firewall of an access router, monitoring up to OSI level 4, is unacceptable anymore these days. The endpoint protection solution is integrated, thus running along with the notification function.

The solution is easy to handle and configure. 

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

The most valuable features are

• Web Protection - Protects you against problems originating from the internet.
• Advanced protection (Sophos Sandstorm) - Protects against crypto viruses in real-time.
• Email Protection - Really strong anti-spam.
• REDs (Remote Ethernet Device)  - Connects you from a remote workplace to your source network.

It can identify threats quickly, then find the affected devices and quarantine them.

It ease of use: The GUI is easy to maneuver through; it is not complicated.

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

The most valuable feature is the price. I've been requesting prices all over these years between different solutions like Fortinet, Palo Alto, and Check Point and Sophos has been the cheapest and the best of all of them that I have tried. I have been working with Fortinet, it's a fact that the sophos price is surprisingly better.

I have also worked with Check Point and it's not far enough from what Sophos can do. In terms of quality and functionality, Sophos is very useful and better than the competition.

The most valuable features are:

• Firewall protection
• Intrusion detection

They are all good, but most-used are the Network Protection and Web Filtering licenses.

The most valuable features are:

• Ease of configuration of the firewall rules and routing.

• The email alert on event triggers.

• Internal storage for logging, as you do not have to get another server to store the logs.

All the features are similar; we are real, hardcore users of the Sophos UTMs.

I think the RED appliances and APs make a difference, and add value to Sophos. Also, it is easy to configure, robust and is a stable appliance. The licensing is great, because you don't have to pay the same license fee for a standby appliance.

Great security and logging. Easy GUI.

What I like about the solution is the ease of use.

We find all of the features valuable because together they fit the needs of our customers.

The most valuable feature is the user interface, which is flexible, powerful, and easy to understand. Configuration troubleshooting is eased by the use of the color-coded, live firewall log. Live logs for most features are also available.

The most valuable feature is the IPS. It also protects us from malware. 

Sophos is a unified solution. We have anti-virus protection, firewall rules, knotting, and DACC all in one box. With Fortinet, everything is separate with multiple devices and solutions.  

It is easy to manage. 

The most valuable features of this solution are the firewall application and application control.

They are all valuable, but the most valuable is the uplink balancing. This is very useful when dealing with more than one ISP, and the wireless capability for our guests.

To me it is the Web Server Protection, it is not an easy task to protect your web servers from the big bad internet. This solution does it elegantly and, if configured correctly, even hides the server's base system from prying eyes.

RED remote Ethernet Device layer 2 site-to-site tunnel.

RED is a layer 2 tunnel based on SSL protocol that you can establish tunnel, with or without static public IP form provider and this is a feature you will not see among another vendor.

• Firewall
• Intrusion Prevention
• Web Filtering
• SMTP Proxy
• Red (VPN Appliance Box for remote sites)

• Ease of deployment
• Licensing
• The dashboards are good.

It is a very good product. The threat monitoring process is the most valuable feature. 

• Ease of use
• Rapid deployment with great logging and analysis features

The security is the most important, and without security, we cannot use our network on a weekly basis.