Sophos XG Stability

MG
Owner at Dinamica en Microsistemas de Informatica, S.A. de C.V.

The solution is quite stable. There are no bugs and glitches. It doesn't crash and freeze. It's quite reliable. We don't have problems with it.

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SL
Owner / IT operator at Fairview Schools

The stability of this solution is excellent. 

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RC
Manager of Sales Operations at Nexsus Cyber Solutions

Sophos XG is a stable solution.

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Buyer's Guide
Sophos XG
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Sophos XG. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
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BO
Network consultant at Juniper Solutions Ltd

It is quite stable.

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AS
Manager, Information Technology at Travel Food Services Pvt ltd

It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution an eight to nine out of ten.

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Saurabh Bhansali - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT at Venus Jewel

The stability of Sophos XG has been exceptional, and we have not encountered any issues. 

I would rate the stability of Sophos XG a ten out of ten.

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MA
Director Of Information Technology at 2B

This product is usually stable. In the past few days, I have found problems where some services are not stable. This is something that I have used the portal to submit a ticket for.

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VY
IT Manager at Jabalpur Motors Ltd

There are no stability issues in the product.

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Akshit Chhokar - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Solutions Specialist - Networking at Google

At times, there are some issues that I have faced with the stability of the product. Not many firmware updates pushed into the tool are bug-free, and because of this, I face issues.

I rate the tool's stability a seven out of ten.

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Ahmed Mrosy - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Lead at Mega Trust

It is a very stable solution. In my company, we have had a reason to restart the product for a long time since the services offered by the tool have been fine enough for our organization.

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AS
Information Technology Department at Sunflag Iron and Steel Co Ltd

It is a very stable solution.

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HA
IT Manager at Saknafta Egypt

I have found the stability to be very good. There have been no hiccups, no restarts, nothing like that. It doesn't hang and there are barely any bugs. 

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Asad Fida - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager MIS at a non-profit with 1-10 employees

There are several glitches in the new firewall. One particular issue arises when applying filtering settings. The firewall fails to unblock sites without requiring a restart to save and execute the changes properly.

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Paul Ojil - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at Blue Neuron Limited

I would rate the stability a ten out of ten. It is very stable. 

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Bernard Otieno - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Engineer at Harnssen Group Limited

In terms of when it's in the network, it's stable compared to other firewalls, where I have had some issues. I had a case with another firewall, which the client changed to Sophos and it was not that stable as the client had to go and actually restart the firewall. The challenge comes in terms of stability when, let's say, the engineer doing the scoping does the round-sizing for the firewall. This causes the IPS to become overloaded or overworked, so it disconnects the traffic at the port level. In terms of stability, I might say sometimes we might experience challenges maybe when the sizing is not done correctly. That's why we might experience that disconnect at the interface level where the internet gets disconnected, however, that's the case of sizing, not the product itself. In terms of stability, it's stable in the network.

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Akshay Y P - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Support Engineer at Digitaltrack

I rate the product’s stability an eight out of ten.

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SK
Senior Consultant at Wavednet Group

The solution has been highly stable.

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KS
IT Consultant at Crotus

The product is stable, but by stable, I mean that we still have issues. The issues are more technical, which is why they suggest that we change the device to fix the problems.

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SK
Network Engineer at The Shri Ram School

I rate the tool’s stability a seven or eight out of ten.

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RU
CEO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

This solution is very stable. We have not had any problems in the three years we have been using Sophos XG. We did have one infection that gained access to one server in the DMZ but it was because the rules were not well configured and not because of the product.

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RQ
Infrastructure/Telcom Coordinator at Schnellecke Group AG & Co. KG

I think Sophos XG is stable.

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GB
Manager of Information Technology at Sundown M Ranch

The stability is great. There are no bugs or glitches and it doesn't crash or freeze. It's a reliable firewall. 

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AK
Senior Network Security Engineer | Project Manager at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees

The solution is stable.

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MV
CEO at MARVIV SRLS

The solution is very stable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's very reliable.

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ManojNair2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder/Director at Augesys Solutions Pvt Ltd

As for stability, I'd give it a high score, maybe a nine, because it keeps running without much downtime.

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Surendra Golchha - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at Bhudeo Khadya Udyog Pvt Ltd

I rate the product’s stability an eight or nine out of ten.

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ZE
Pre-sales manager at National Information Technology Company

Sophos XG is very stable. We haven't had a single issue with stability in the nine years we have been using Sophos.

All electric appliances rely on a stable electric current, which requires the use of a UPS, and a backup power supply. The main issue is the stability of the power.

All Sophos appliances are SSD-based, which means the hard drive in the appliance is solid-state.

we have deployed more than 50, 60 for our customers in Kuwait and we haven't had an issue or, any RMA.

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Benjamin Bodenehim - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technology Officer at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

It has its bugs and we can't get answers due to the fact that technical support is outsourced. There are some bugs that we keep running into that tech support can't figure out what to do. The bigger problem is the log systems aren't big enough for them to actually capture all the logs that happen.

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KhalidOmer - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Center Engineer at Arabianoud.com

The solution is very stable. We haven't dealt with bugs or glitches and it doesn't crash or freeze. It's pretty reliable.

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SK
IT Manager at k sera sera

We have no complaints in regards to the stability. It doesn't crash or freeze. There are no bugs or glitches. It's good. We find it to be reliable in terms of performance.

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MA
Technical Presales Consultant/ Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

I rate the stability of Sophos XG a six out of ten.

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NB
Information Technology Support Manager at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

The solution has better stability than Cisco, which is why I prefer it over other firewalls. 

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WM
Head of ICT Infrastructure and Security at City of Harare

We are very satisfied with the functionality. We are very satisfied with the way that it is securing our environment. The stability has been excellent.

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JN
Senior Engineer at a engineering company with 11-50 employees

It has been up and running for probably three weeks and hasn't had any issues. I didn't have a lot of time on it yet to make a good call about that, but so far, so good.

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SF
Project Manager at a mining and metals company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sophos XG is stable enough for our requirements.

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NiteshSharma - PeerSpot reviewer
Pre-Sales Architect at Network Techlab (I) Pvt. Ltd

I rate the tool's stability an eight point five out of ten. 

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BO
Adjunct Professor, Cybersecurity at a university with 1-10 employees

I would rate the stability of the solution as a ten out of ten.

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Mikko Mäki-Valkama - PeerSpot reviewer
System Specialist at Databros

Overall, the solution is stable, and we rarely encounter glitches. Any issues that arise are usually related to Microsoft updates rather than the Sophos software itself.

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RI
Owner at Computer Services Professionals

The tool’s stability is good. I rate the tool’s stability a ten out of ten.

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VV
CIO at Nuotek Limited

I rate the solution an eight out of ten for stability.

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NA
Head of Operations at Intersect Technologies

Stability and performance is good.

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HP
Senior Network Architect at Virtua Technologies

Stability-wise, it's almost as good as FortiGate.

I've been selling FortiGate for 10 years and Sophos for two and a half years. I think that Sophos is just about on par with FortiGate. We just had a small thing with a client, but I don't know if that's really going to be reason enough. In terms of stability, I think they are quite good. The issue we had was the locks, and it was causing slowness or interruptions, but that was really not an issue. It's a small thing.

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AA141 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Specialist at Bioland Energy

I rate the solution an eight out of ten for stability.

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PB
Tech Doctor at a recruiting/HR firm with 11-50 employees

It is very stable.

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Muhammad_Irfan - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Network Administrator at ACMC

The stability of Sophos XG is great!

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CB
IT Manager at Thyme IT

It is stable. We've been dealing with it for such a long time. We know exactly how to set it up. Sometimes, clients have got funny ideas, and I just say to them, "You tell me what you need, and I'll do the config and set it up." I've got two clients who have got technical skills. One of them is fairly proficient on Sophos, so he does the work as well, but for most of our other clients, we set it up, and there are no issues. It just works.

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ML
Chef IT at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees

It's a stable product.

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UD
CTO at Kingsway Hospitals

This is a stable solution. I haven't had any firewall crashes or any non-performing rules for over two years. We are a hospital so all the lights of all the devices should be on 24/7, 365 days a year.

We manage and control around 250-300 internal users. There would probably be another 75-100 logging in externally.

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OA
Chief Technology Officer at Leystel Nigeria Limited

There are no issues with stability. It's a very stable system and you almost never have serious problems for any reason. It's only when you do an upgrade that you have to restart. Stability-wise, for the on-premise solution, I'd give it 4 stars.

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NK
Consultant at Hitech Network Solution

I rate the tool’s stability a seven out of ten.

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ML
Associate Technical Director at INTELEC3

It is very stable.

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TO
Managing Director at a comms service provider with 1-10 employees

The stability is based on the environment.

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NK
PPC at EMMVEE Photovoltaic Power Private Limited

The stability and performance are excellent. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's very reliable. 

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NS
Sr Information technology consultant at onkar international pvt ltd

The stability is very good. It does not crash or freeze. There are no bugs or glitches. the solution is reliable. 

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CM
Revenue Development Manager at Integrity by CELT

This is a very stable solution.

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Jorge Costa Neves - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Advisor at Silopor SA

It is stable. We receive the updates online. They provide the updates at a good frequency. 

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GD
Head of Cybersecurity at mundo credito

The solution has been stable in my experience.

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it_user1363380 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager IT at QPS Bioserve Pvt Ltd.

I have not heard complaints of bugs or glitches occurring.

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BR
Faculty of Technical Sciences at a university with 201-500 employees

Stability-wise, I rate the solution a six out of ten.

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AM
Head of Information Technology at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees

So far, so good. Sophos XG has been stable, and we have not had any challenges.

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VG
Co-Founder at Multitechservers

This is a reliable solution.

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KM
Programmer / Analyst at Maridive & Oil Services

Sophos XG is a very powerful and stable solution. It's more stable than Cyberoam.

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Ryan Dominic Momblan - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at Microgenesis Business Systems

The solution is very stable. There aren't bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's very reliable overall.

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

Stability is good. I was so happy with the Cyberoam iNG unit, and I think the Sophos XG series is exactly the same as the Cyberoam iNG unit. It's a very good unit for a smaller or medium business. It's very stable and it takes overload easily, so it can add to the throughput. It has versatility, it will support extra users, it will support extra bandwidth, to a limit, and it keeps on working as a monster. I have barely replaced any of those units through the years.

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Manojkumar Deshmukh - PeerSpot reviewer
VP of Operations at Caprihans India Ltd

Sophos XG is a stable product.

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Nadeem Syed - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at Haniya Technologies

It is stable. Its performance is very good. They have now stopped calling it a firewall. They're calling it a Unified Threat Management (UTM) solution.

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GM
Owner at supernovatel

I have no issues with the stability. No reboots are needed, and there hasn't been a problem with that.

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SA
IT Executive at Hotel Maluri Kuala Lumpur

The stability is great. We don't have any issues. I haven't come across bugs or glitches. There isn't crashing or freezing. It's reliable.

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AS
Director, Middle East, East India & SAARC at DMX Technologies

We have not had many issues, perhaps two or three of them, when using Sophos XG.

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it_user1359756 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner/President at TeamLogic IT of Oklahoma City

This solution has been very stable and it's a good product, otherwise, I wouldn't be using it.

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HS
IT Infrastructure & Security Manager at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's stable. So far we haven't experienced any instability issues with. 

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JR
IT Support Engineer at odak bilisim

The Stability and performance are quite good. We haven't seen any problems.

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AS
Senior System & Security Administrator at a legal firm with 51-200 employees

I think Sophos XG is very stable because the users who have installed it never mention any issues. It's very stable and scalable. 

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KV
IT support officer at a wholesaler/distributor with 51-200 employees

Sophos is stable.

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RathinVaidya - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President (Technical) at Shaligram Infotech LLP

The solution is stable. 

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TG
Chairman at BASL

There is something that have observed and I don't know what exactly the problem is. Right now, from my ISP I'm supposed to have unlimited bandwidth, but I observed behind the firewall my bandwidth seems low. I'm not exhausting what I have from my ISP. I've checked the TOS and there's no limit. When I spoke with one of the resellers they said that they too had experienced it before and that probably I should restart the device.

That they observed that the clients that restarted had their internet service improve. I don't think that is a good solution. I don't want to have to restart my device to have the internet service improved.

I've checked the setup. I even checked with the reseller, who told me everything is okay. I've gone for XG training. Even after the XG training, I've gone back to look at my setup. I can't see anywhere the bandwidth is being shared. I'm not sure if it's the device itself, but I've checked everything.

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Md. Shirajur Rahman Akash - PeerSpot reviewer
Branch Manager at Shakti Foundation

Sophos XG is a stable solution.

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MA
Technical Support Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

The solution is stable.

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UD
CTO at Kingsway Hospitals

This is a stable solution, it's a nice robust firewall. We love using it. 

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TC
Information Systems Infrastructure Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is stable. I have managed to secure my network. It has been good so far.

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MM
Architect of solutions at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

This is a stable solution, I have not had any issues in regards to stability.

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KA
Director

This is a stable product and we use it on a daily basis.

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SN
Network Administrator at chegus infotech

This is a product that we use every day. Without it, it is very difficult for us to work. I really like the reliability and the performance of the Sophos device, but I'm facing a few issues with my Wi-Fi networks. This device supports the Wi-Fi network, but it's not quite as good as we expected. I'm not sure why it is not working so well for me.

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JR
Founder and Managing Partner at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

The stability is what I have found attractive with the whole Sophos product line. You can have a client that starts with a three-person office and grow it to a 10,000 person operation and you keep moving the configuration to the next level of power.

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Mohamed Abozied - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at Alsafy

The stability is good.

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MG
Chief-Information-Technology-Officer at ABIG

We encountered an issue with the hardware when we first purchased this solution. We called Sophos, who replaced the device, and we have not had any issues since.

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MY
CEO at Tawassul Technology

Sophos XG is a stable product.

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KC
Information Security Manager at a recruiting/HR firm with 201-500 employees

The product is reliable and stable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. 

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TA
Senior solution architect at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

The solution has been stable. However, two years ago there were some issues causing stability concerns.

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AM
Network Engineer at Vibs

It's a stable solution.

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Mohamed Abdel Hassanein - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at FORESEC

This solution is stable.

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SK
Operations Manager at VL Toolbox Express Computer Solutions

The solution is quite stable. 

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BS
Data Professional at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is stable.

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AM
Creative Head/Director at a marketing services firm with 1-10 employees

When compared with other firewalls, such as that of SonicWall, we have had no issues with the solution's stability. It works very well.

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OO
Network Administrator at a construction company with 51-200 employees

It is stable.

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AM
ICT/HMIS Supervisor at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

It has been very stable. We haven't had any outages. It has been seamless.

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Miyoba Sichimwi - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Security Officer at South African National Accreditation System (sanas)

This is a very stable platform. In the four years that we have had it, it's never gone down.

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SB
Network Team Lead at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Its stability and reliability are fine.

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LauriLaanenurm - PeerSpot reviewer
Network and Security Engineer at Datafox OÜ

The stability of Sophos XG is very good. However, there have been some issues with other weaker models because they are limited in hardware in resources.

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PV
Senior Executive IT at Mattsen Kumar LLC

This solution is both stable and secure.

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MA
Head of Network Department at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sophos XG is stable. 

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Alex Clerici - PeerSpot reviewer
System Integrator IT Manager at Tecnimex S.r.l.

We've found the stability to be very good. It doesn't crash or freeze. There are no glitches. The performance and reliability are excellent. 

Occasionally, we do have to do a debug, however, that's typical of all firewall solutions.

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IC
CIO LATAM at i-Track Systems Development, S.A. de C.V.

The stability is very good. Stability is the main reason we use Sophos.

We have no complaints about the reliability, performance, or stability. It's a very strong product.

We are currently building the security architecture and we are trying to build according to the customer's requirements. The plan is for 35% growth in the next three years.

Our clients are usually medium to large-sized businesses. 

We currently have 23 engineers to maintain this solution.

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DM
ICT Manager at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It has been fairly stable.

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it_user633438 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information security specialist at a non-tech company with 201-500 employees

The stability of the solution is excellent.

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HB
Lead Advance Engineer at IHCC

I've used FortiGate before and I would say that Sophos is just as stable, both being around 70% as stable as other products on the market.

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SG
Lead NOC Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees

There were no stability issues.

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MR
Gerente de Atendimento na Introduce at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Sophos XG is really robust because of all the implementations you currently have active. We don't have problems on the hardware or a bug on the software or anything like that. It's really, really rare. Most of the problems are from requests for our customers asking to make a particular website available for some parts of the company and things like this. Just some little configurations on the web filter.

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AE
Cyber Security Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

This solution is not as stable as other products. In terms of stability, our number one recommendation is Palo Alto, number two is FortiGate, and number three is Sophos. 

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SP
Head of Software department & Head of Security department at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The stability is quite good there are no major vulnerabilities. 

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NN
IT Manager at a hospitality company with 51-200 employees

This solution has been stable so far.

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US
Senior Manager, Information Technology at a university with 201-500 employees

It's stable. We have no problem at all with stability or with Sophos XG.

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MG
VP of Operations at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

This solution is stable. We haven't had any real issues.

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DP
IT Support Executive at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees

This is a stable solution. 

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AV
Support Services Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 51-200 employees

The solution seems pretty stable. We've had no issues so far.

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TP
IT Manager , SAP HANA Administrator at Tara Paints & Chemicals

There used to be problems with the stability of the solution a few years ago but now the solution is stable and reliable.

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MD
Sales Manager at INFOSEC

The stability is okay. That said, as an enterprise solution, it can be a bit unstable during the initial implementation.

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JT
Chief Operational Officer at Merchant Light LLC

The stability has been rock solid and it hasn't gone down once.

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GL
IT Architect at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

The performance of Sophos XG is generally good and it is stable. 

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VM
IT Technician at Zimbabwe School of MInes

The solution is stable.

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AK
RSI at a logistics company with 201-500 employees

The solution has been very stable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable in terms of the performance it offers.

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ZE
‎Chief Operating Officer at Al Manar

For the past seven years, we haven't had any issues with the hardware or software. It's stable. If a customer misconfigured it, they might face issues. Out of the box, however, it's stable; it is an appliance that customers can depend on.

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AT
Network Engineer at Spectrum Engineering Consortium Ltd.

Sophos XG is stable.

Maintenance, once it is established on the network, requires about two to three people dedicated to Sophos Firewall. We have to give about two to three days monthly.

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HA
Sr. Network Officer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sophos is quite stable.

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AS
Entrepreneur at Carmel Infotech Solutions

It's a stable product.

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AR
Senior IT Consultant - Sophos Architect at ARENTIA S.A.

Sophos XG is stable. I don't encounter problems that are typical with broken systems. But bugs in the system exists. Last example, I discovered a bug is in the asymmetric routing implementation. In a specific network configuration, asymmetric routing, with sub-net 25 doesn't work, but mask 24 and mask 26 works!!

But this is just a bug, and Sophos' support is very good to correct quickly, ASAP.

I only had a break function once because of the appliance BIOS. The Sophos support send me a new BIOS very quickly, and the problem was resolved.

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NM
Networking Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sophos XG is stable and we have no problems with it.

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KS
Manager IT at a retailer with 201-500 employees

Stability has not been a problem for us.

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DC
IT Project Consultant at a tech services company

Yes, on the SFOS Version 15, I had to upgrade the firmware of an appliance since it had a problem with the JAMVM process (an apparently known issue in which that process consumes almost all of the CPU resources).

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Terry Cheung - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at TopSOC

Sophos XG is a stable solution.

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WG
Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It is stable, but sometimes, there is an issue with anti-spam, and Sophos XG suddenly stops processing incoming or outgoing emails. This is the only issue that I have with the anti-spam solution on Sophos XG.

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SS
ICT Manager at toril community cooperative

It is very stable.

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Samir Shah - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at Infinity Access Technologies Pvt Ltd

I have found it to be a stable product.

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RL
Technical Department Manager at Direcbusiness Technologies, Inc.

It is a stable solution.

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MA
Technical Support Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

The solution has been stable. We haven't had any bugs or glitches and it doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable. 

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DC
Network Administrator at OM Networks Pvt Ltd

The solution is stable. 

Both Sophos XG and XGS offer a host of cloud-based security features. 

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AH
System Engineer at Dhanush Infosol

We have used many different versions. In some of the older versions, the refreshing time took approximately 20 min which is too long, and in other versions, we experienced other stability issues.

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RJ
Director at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

I am very happy with the stability of the solution.

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AdemolaOlamide - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Development Manager at Computer Learning centre

I have found Sophos XG to be very stable.

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AJ
Founder & Chief Operating Officer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

It's a stable solution.

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JB
Dipl. Ing. at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

From the update side, the last update didn't run successfully and this is not good for us as the customer needs this device to access the internet. If this device is failing and it has no connection to the internet  it is a great problem for the customer.

It may be possible to implement a second device in a fail-over cluster and this would avoid such a problem as then if one device fails in the updating process, the other device could be take over, and so it would be not such a great problem. That said, in this scenario, you have to sell two devices. That would be the best way to ensure stability, however.

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AP
IT Manager at a engineering company with 201-500 employees

The stability of Sophos XG is good, it has good performance.

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VA
Managing Director at Graftronics Pvt Ltd

The stability of this product is good, we've never had any complaints from our customers. 

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it_user1429977 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Administrator at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

The issue of stability is the reason that I'm trying to move away from using Sophos as our firewall. There were times where Sophos randomly cut some users off of the internet, which adversely affected business operations. It is important because our business relies on throughput and service, like the uptime of e-commerce servers.

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MT
IT Engineer at FormatPC

It's a stable solution. We have not experienced any issues.

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BK
System Administrator Server and Networks at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees

This is a stable product, although the web GUI is slow. We plan to use it for another couple of years.

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it_user306159 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at Makros SPA

There has been no issue with the stability.

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CE
CIO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Sophos XG is stable. We've been using it for a long time. We had a lot of proposals from other vendors, but we decided to stick with Sophos.

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KO
Network engineer at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees

The solution is definitely stable. 

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EM
Head ICT at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

It's very stable. It has never given us any problems.

When there are power failures, we have to reboot the network.

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JA
Network & System Administrator at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The stability could be better.

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DV
Senior System Administrator at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

They seem pretty stable. They're pretty good devices when they're up and running. Once you get them up and running they seem to work quite well. It runs 24/7.

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BA
Head Of Solutions at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Sophos XG is a reliable product.

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DP
IT Support Executive at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees

The solution is stable.

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it_user736143 - PeerSpot reviewer
Operations Manager at iBound

We do updates periodically, but the solution is very stable. We haven't had to go back to the site to reconfigure it or anything like that.

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FK
Head Of Network & Technical Support at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

I have found the solution to be stable.

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VG
Mr at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Nothing. No issues. It is quite stable.

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

Owing to the fast and adequate response time we get, we do not have complaints about the stability. 

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KN
Service Delivery Engineer - Network Security Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It is very stable. I've not had any issues with it.

In terms of bugs, I've not had any bugs, or I've not encountered any bugs when deploying Sophos or administering Sophos products. 

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SR
IT Security Manager at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

Stability is good, no problems. 

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AB
Owner at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Sophos XG is a stable solution.

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FA
Systems Administrator Team Leader at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

This is a stable solution.

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it_user431136 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant Information Technology at a tech company with 51-200 employees

No stability issues.

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it_user846270 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Infrastructure Solutions Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The stability, so far, is actually quite good. I think the only issue we have had is some flapping on the connection, but it was a bug. The support is quite good, so the issue was resolved in no time at all. We have not had many issues at all. It's been working fine.

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it_user704991 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer with 51-200 employees

The first firmware versions were not that stable and had a lot of bugs in it. From Version SF 16 and above, the stability has improved a lot.

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MR
Network Security Engineer at gofaster

For small to medium-sized businesses, Sophos XG works well, it is stable.

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KR
Network Engineer at a individual & family service with 11-50 employees

I haven't had any issues with stability. 

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PB
Project manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The solution's stability is fine. 

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MC
IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees

I do not feel that this is a stable product. URL filtering is not good.

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it_user1274955 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Director of IT Operations at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

This product is part of our infrastructure and we use it every day. The internet stays up with no outages, so I think that Sophos XG is a stable product.

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MF
Senior Information Technology Project Manager at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees

I think Sophos has to concentrate on the latest firmware's stability because we have version 18, and we have many problems with our customers who have this version. I think Sophos has to thoroughly test the firmware before launching it. When you get any update on any hardware device, you get many problems. It's not good.

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it_user1375350 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Analyst- Presales and delivery at TechNexa Technologies Private Limited

This product is stable.

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Buyer's Guide
Sophos XG
March 2024
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