XG Firewall

Better insight to Network and internet usage

Kommentare: Bandwidth control, intrusion prevention and network security

Vorteile:

The indepth reports on the users activity with ability tonrestrict access to specific network resource in a user friendly interface.

Nachteile:

The enduser access to their usage report. It would be great if the user can have a portal to check on activities on their account

Sophos XG Firewall

Kommentare: Le rapport qualité/prix comparé à ceux des autres marques offrant des produits de cette qualité fait de Sophos un très bon choix en matière de pare-feu.

Vorteile:

La gamme XG des pare-feu Sophos comporte des produits de qualité et aux performances très élevées. La gestion intégrée des Access Points Wifi pour le mesh est un plus intéressant pour les environnements comportement de nombreux AP.

Nachteile:

Les sites devant permettre la gestion distantes des équipements est actuellement très lent et compliqué à utiliser.

Disappointing

Kommentare: Not good. Used it for a year, before that used Kerio Control, after many problems and failures went back to Kerio.

Vorteile:

Support is good, also the warranty. Bought 2 XG 210 appliances for HA, had to replace them on warranty 3 times, it was done without issues. Antivirus and overall filtering is good.

Nachteile:

Used it on versions 15 and 16, each update broke something, even minor ones. HA in paper sounds good but it was a risk, almost every time we updated it crashed and had to force a restart. Interface is slow and poorly designed. Its almost impossible to get a clear view of what traffic is passing in real time. Overly complex and limited at the same time.

XG- Review

Vorteile:

The XG firewall have a good user-friendly interface to navigate, it is has a robust interface and it solved many of our network security problems.

Nachteile:

Setting up different network interface seems a little stressful in XG

Takes Getting Used To...

Kommentare: I realize that it sounds overall negative, but I do actually expect to have a positive term (committed to a minimum of 3 years). Learning curves are inevitable. I really enjoy the flexibility, the power, and the ability to keep multiple firewalls in sync with each other. Security is complicated, and so far I feel like it will get the job done, and done well.

Vorteile:

I feel pretty confident in its ability to keep the network secure. Ours is connected to the Sophos UTM and Endpoint Protection software, and I do really like how they are able to talk to each other. There is good amount of customizability, and since switching to Sophos from our previous vendor, I've enjoyed that ability to better differentiate the networks and even time-based access on a per network basis.

Nachteile:

There's a few things I wish were different. The biggest gap is that it doesn't have any sort of mDNS reflector. Our previous router had that, and needing to configure a separate server for that purpose has been far more involved that I would like. If the router had the feature built-in, it would bring me much joy. The other big one is the logging. It's really designed more for a business environment where you "trust" your employees. So the logs aren't designed to help you figure out if someone is trying to break rules, but rather to find potentially compromised devices. Since I work at a boarding school, we really want to work with the families to correct bad behavior, not just set up some obstacles and walk away. And then, coming from Ubiquiti, I have found the interface cumbersome to understand. It's taken a fair amount of getting used to. While there are many features, I feel like I have to do a lot of clicking and hunting to get changes implemented, confirmed, and troubleshot.