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Sophos Network Access Control pros and cons

Vendor: Sophos
4.2 out of 5

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PROS

Sophos Network Access Control provides excellent scalability and system performance, integrating the entire OSI layer infrastructure and offering comprehensive visibility across networks.
The platform offers fantastic wifi control, making administration easy and installation straightforward.
Pricing is reasonable, with room for negotiation, and technical support is fast, responsive, and knowledgeable.
Valuable features include IP blocking, quick threat response times, and reliable security, as well as web protection, URL filtering, and application filtering.
The role-based access controls allow for tailored access within organizations, and robust reporting and analytics provide deep insights into performance and behavior.

CONS

Sophos Network Access Control could improve its integration with other platforms or systems.
There is a need for more useful documentation and clearer information about licensing.
Resource consumption is high, with significant processor and RAM usage during scans.
Pricing is considered costly, and there's room for improvement in understanding policy application complexities.
It would be beneficial for Sophos Network Access Control to provide more details on incoming connections, such as download speed and fluctuations.
 

Sophos Network Access Control Pros review quotes

Marco-VIVALDELLI - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at MARVIV SRLS
Oct 28, 2019
The scalability of the system and the performance of the system and the solution's most valuable features.
IO
Manager at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
Jan 12, 2020
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.
it_user1306257 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Analyst at a tech company with 11-50 employees
Mar 16, 2020
There is really good visibility for the appliance.
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it_user1306257 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Analyst at a tech company with 11-50 employees
Mar 16, 2020
The solution offers very good visibility.
reviewer1345065 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Network Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
May 20, 2020
The user interface makes it easy to configure and use.
DH
Technical Operations Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Sep 30, 2020
The wifi control is fantastic and makes it very easy to administer.
Marco-VIVALDELLI - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at MARVIV SRLS
Mar 11, 2021
The installation is very straightforward.
KM
Network Engineer at kamla raheja vidyanidhi institute for architecture
Sep 2, 2021
The pricing is very reasonable and you can negotiate on the price.
JA
Works at Inertia holding group
Apr 30, 2022
Sophos' technical support is great, very fast and responsive, and they always know how to fix the problem.
IO
Founder at itservicedeskafrika
Nov 18, 2022
I found all Sophos Network Access Control features valuable, but IP blocking is the most useful.
 

Sophos Network Access Control Cons review quotes

Marco-VIVALDELLI - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at MARVIV SRLS
Oct 28, 2019
The solution could increase the integration with other platforms or other systems. This would be very useful.
IO
Manager at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
Jan 12, 2020
What needs to be improved on is the fact that Sophos consumes a lot of processor resources and, once it starts scanning, the RAM utilization is very high.
it_user1306257 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Analyst at a tech company with 11-50 employees
Mar 16, 2020
The difficult thing was finding the metrics.
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it_user1306257 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Analyst at a tech company with 11-50 employees
Mar 16, 2020
The solution could offer more useful documentation.
reviewer1345065 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Network Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
May 20, 2020
I would like to be able to fully customize the reports.
DH
Technical Operations Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Sep 30, 2020
I would like to see mobile administration capabilities in the next release so that we can administer the device from a mobile device.
Marco-VIVALDELLI - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at MARVIV SRLS
Mar 11, 2021
The interface on the cloud could be a bit better - just to give more performance on it.
KM
Network Engineer at kamla raheja vidyanidhi institute for architecture
Sep 2, 2021
In order to provide better management, it would be ideal with they offered better plugins for their firewall.
JA
Works at Inertia holding group
Apr 30, 2022
An area that could be improved is the information about licensing, which is fairly confusing at present.
IO
Founder at itservicedeskafrika
Nov 18, 2022
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.