Sophos SafeGuard Reviews

Name: Sophos SafeGuard
Brand: Sophos
Rating: 4 (11 reviews)

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Yovana Julio

IT Manager at Bpolabs

Dec 19, 2022

A disadvantage of Sophos SafeGuard is the partner here in Colombia that takes so long to provide a quote or product information to you. It should be easier to get access to Sophos SafeGuard. My company communicated with three different Sophos partners to get a quote for the product, but it took too long to get the quotes, which is an area for improvement. My company only received the quote more quickly with the help of a friend working with one of the Sophos partners in the area. Another area for improvement in Sophos SafeGuard is the pricing. Pricing should be better when adding a new account or scaling the product.

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Miyoba Sichimwi

Information Technology Security Officer at South African National Accreditation System (sanas)

Jun 21, 2023

The lack of need for the patch for an extra password is a shortcoming. It will be a great improvement if the patch requires an extra password so that they can find out how to synchronize your Windows password with the same password for Sophos SafeGuard. I would like to suggest some features that should be included in the next release of Sophos SafeGuard. It is a simple product that accomplishes its basic requirements, which is fine. I don't think implementing complicated solutions that may introduce other issues is necessary. Let it focus on doing what it's meant to do, which is to protect data, and that's all.

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Mohamed Abdel Hassanein

Managing Director at FORESEC

Nov 26, 2022

What is our primary use case The use cases for Sophos SafeGuard include protecting customer data and securing customer premises. What is most valuable? I like that Sophos SafeGuard provides excellent technical support. What needs improvement? What would make Sophos SafeGuard better than…

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Pricing

"The licensing costs depend on the series. For example, XG 85 can be around $200. If you go to ACC or to a four or five-year enterprise solution, you will find these devices can cost $10,000. It depends on the series."
"We have a yearly license with Sophos which is around $1000-$1200 or so per annum. There are no additional costs beyond the standard licensing fee."
"Licensing for this solution is on a yearly basis."

Valuable Features

"The Intercept X feature is the most valuable feature. You can't find this feature in other firewalls because Intercept X works as if it has an interaction between the endpoint and the firewall."
"With Sophos, I only need to generate the password and give that to a user to be able to allow them to login to the admin page of the Endpoint and do whatever they need to do. The user cannot go ahead and uninstall it. It's kept us much more secure because of this. Should any event happen on a particular system, I'm given the username and the system IP address. I get notifications and can deal with issues right away."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the fact that they are able to encrypt the hard disk and to encrypt USB sticks."

Room For Improvement

"Sophos SafeGuard is a German product. Sophos isn't really active in Europe. The Middle East, Africa, South Africa works with Sophos but their primary users aren't in Europe. They should market and push this solution to the European market."
"If it's possible, they should make all the features available because it's got a lot of features on offer, but you have to buy the license in order to add those features to the normal Endpoint. If they could make all those features available and/or offer a bundling option it would be better."
"The solution is not using other features like booting encryption, because it causes very heavy processing of the workstation. If they could find some way to handle the encryption and decryption to be lighter on the workstation it would be better."

Pricing

"The licensing costs depend on the series. For example, XG 85 can be around $200. If you go to ACC or to a four or five-year enterprise solution, you will find these devices can cost $10,000. It depends on the series."
"We have a yearly license with Sophos which is around $1000-$1200 or so per annum. There are no additional costs beyond the standard licensing fee."
"Licensing for this solution is on a yearly basis."

Valuable Features

"The Intercept X feature is the most valuable feature. You can't find this feature in other firewalls because Intercept X works as if it has an interaction between the endpoint and the firewall."
"With Sophos, I only need to generate the password and give that to a user to be able to allow them to login to the admin page of the Endpoint and do whatever they need to do. The user cannot go ahead and uninstall it. It's kept us much more secure because of this. Should any event happen on a particular system, I'm given the username and the system IP address. I get notifications and can deal with issues right away."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the fact that they are able to encrypt the hard disk and to encrypt USB sticks."

Room For Improvement

"Sophos SafeGuard is a German product. Sophos isn't really active in Europe. The Middle East, Africa, South Africa works with Sophos but their primary users aren't in Europe. They should market and push this solution to the European market."
"If it's possible, they should make all the features available because it's got a lot of features on offer, but you have to buy the license in order to add those features to the normal Endpoint. If they could make all those features available and/or offer a bundling option it would be better."
"The solution is not using other features like booting encryption, because it causes very heavy processing of the workstation. If they could find some way to handle the encryption and decryption to be lighter on the workstation it would be better."

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Sophos SafeGuard was previously known as SafeGuard, SafeGuard Encryption.

Sophos SafeGuard is the #3 ranked solution in top Mobile Data Protection tools and #4 ranked solution in top Endpoint Encryption tools. PeerSpot users give Sophos SafeGuard an average rating of 9.0 out of 10. Sophos SafeGuard is most commonly compared to Microsoft BitLocker: Sophos SafeGuard vs Microsoft BitLocker. Sophos SafeGuard is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 54% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 13% of all views.