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We performed a comparison between Impulse Point SafeConnect and Sophos Network Access Control based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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"It is very easy to scale the product."

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"The scalability of the system and the performance of the system and the solution's most valuable features.""What Sophos has done is integrate almost the entire OSI layer infrastructure. It gives me visibility across my infrastructure. It gives me visibility into all the mobile devices that are on my network and into the security I have on those mobile devices.""We have had interactions with the technical support team through the Xnet platform. It's good.""The pricing is very reasonable and you can negotiate on the price.""There is really good visibility for the appliance.""Sophos has helped us to save time and money and to better manage web activities. It has also helped us to reduce misuse of the network and restrict hacking attempts.""I found all Sophos Network Access Control features valuable, but IP blocking is the most useful.""Sophos' technical support is great, very fast and responsive, and they always know how to fix the problem."

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"The solution would be much better if it offered self-service onboarding."

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"The user interface, in terms of managing the product, could be better.""An area that could be improved is the information about licensing, which is fairly confusing at present.""The solution can improve the for applying policies. They can be complex depending don't the group they are applied to.""The difficult thing was finding the metrics.""The solution could offer more useful documentation.""Sophos Network Access Control needs improvement regarding its slow interface, loading time, and reporting.""Sophos Network Access Control requires a lot of resources to work, which is an area for improvement. Pricing could also be improved because it's costly.""I would like more details on the incoming connection, like what is the download speed and how it fluctuates. If Sophos can give that information, it would be really good."

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  • "For our tier group, for one year, the cost is probably around $10,000 for the license. If you do multi-year, you could get two years, and you could get it for about $8,000 per year. If you do three years, you get it around $7,000 a year."
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  • "Sophos Network Access Control is costly but has a similar price range as CrowdStrike and Check Point. The product can get more market share if Sophos can play around with Sophos Network Access Control pricing and improve it."
  • "I rate the price of Sophos Network Access Control a five out of ten."
  • "Sophos Network Access Control is very cheap compared to other solutions like Cisco, Barracuda, and Palo Alto."
  • "It provides a moderate pricing option for all of its features and benefits."
  • "It is quite expensive."
  • "Sophos Network Access Control is an expensive solution."
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    Top Answer:Sophos Network Access Control has a useful interface, and I like its dashboard, which is very useful for us to check everything.
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    Overview

    SafeConnect provides the ability to automate the enforcement of security compliance and network access control policies (based on identity, device type, location, and ownership), and gathers a wealth of real-time and historical context-aware device data so you can make more informed and intelligent decisions.

    Sophos NAC Provides comprehensive, easy-to-deploy network access control that protects enterprise networks from the threats posed by non-compliant, compromised, or misconfigured endpoint computers. The software solution is vendor-neutral and works with existing network infrastructure and security applications. Computers are permitted or denied access to the network, based on a centrally defined, policy-driven assessment - and isolated, quarantined for remediation, automatically remediated, or sent alerts. Administrators can define and manage policies uniquely for managed and guest computers, including checking their security status and ensuring that no unwanted applications are run.
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    Financial Services Firm43%
    Manufacturing Company29%
    University14%
    Energy/Utilities Company14%
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    Computer Software Company14%
    Government10%
    Comms Service Provider8%
    Real Estate/Law Firm7%
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    Small Business75%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise13%
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    Large Enterprise55%
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    Impulse Point SafeConnect is ranked 17th in Network Access Control (NAC) while Sophos Network Access Control is ranked 7th in Network Access Control (NAC) with 18 reviews. Impulse Point SafeConnect is rated 8.0, while Sophos Network Access Control is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Impulse Point SafeConnect writes "Easy to scale, enforces policies well, and has responsive technical support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Network Access Control writes "An affordable solution that provides web protection, URL filtering, and application filtering". Impulse Point SafeConnect is most compared with Forescout Platform, whereas Sophos Network Access Control is most compared with Aruba ClearPass, Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Fortinet FortiNAC, F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) and Forescout Platform.

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