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Sophos UTM Primary Use Case

Samaila Yusuf - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Director - Management Support Services at CIHP

I have been using Sophos UTM for the past six years to protect the network at my organization. I use it for my customers and to secure our internal infrastructure.

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Daniel  Elías - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a training & coaching company with 11-50 employees

Currently, I have Sophos UTM. I don't remember the details. I know it's about management. I have monitoring from Sophos, alongside the Sophos firewall and Sophos antivirus. Sophos manages the service, with people monitoring my network, including the data from my endpoints and firewalls. They can alert me if there is a security risk. I purchase this service through a distributor in Colombia because the service offers direct management and monitoring.

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Emanuele-Gnali - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at NetArt

The primary use case for the solution is as a perimeter protection firewall, which includes functionalities such as VPN, web control, and traffic inspection. It is used in various customer environments, providing comprehensive security management and network protection.

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Sophos UTM
June 2025
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AH
Owner / Network Security Engineer at Texarkana IT

I deploy Sophos UTM FullGuard for each of my clients. It is a complete bundle of security subscriptions that include web filtering, dual inline antivirus, etc.

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JN
Technical Services Lead at Telenet Solutions

My company deals with eight clients who use Sophos UTM. My company's clients mainly use Sophos UTM for protection against threats and for other purposes like content filtering, web filtering, and VPNs.

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

We have deployed Sophos UTM on cloud and on-premises. The cloud provider is Azure.

There are about 200 people who are using this solution in my organization.

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ML
Network and Infrastructure Manager at Sonysugar

We use Sophos UTM for our organization's network security.

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NAGESWARARAO KORUKONDA - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager IT at KMV Group

We primarily use the solution for firewall security.

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Mohammed_Sajid - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Network Administrator at abl

Our company uses the solution as an edge firewall. 

We have 500 users and the solution is managed by five technicians. 

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BS
IT Administrator at Vegol

The solution is used mainly for user management and access control. 

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Fathi Kharfi - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Network & Technical Support at Tadhamon International Islamic Bank

We primarily use the solution for security purposes. 

We use it as a WAF with an application firewall.

We can use it for VPN SSL as a remote-access VPN. We have used it on the internet for applications and web servers.

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TG
It manager at MMA2

This solution can be deployed on-premise and on the cloud.

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Walid Fawzy - PeerSpot reviewer
Network and System Engineer at Al-Watania Poultry (Egypt)

We use all features of Sophos UTM, for example, application control and URL filtering.

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AH
Head of IT at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We use Sophos UTM for endpoint antivirus.

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YA
Network and Security Engineer at ONB

We use Sophos UTM for firewall management and for some of the other modules it provides, such as email and firewall proxies.

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NA
Head of Operations at Intersect Technologies

There are multiple use cases, and a few examples would be its use in the education, banking, or financial sectors. There are so many other locations and sectors where they deploy this solution.

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sugoi - PeerSpot reviewer
Server analyst at EJCLME Inc.

Our company is a partner and reseller of the solution. We lease, sell, and license boxes for our clients. Use cases are rather unique and not uniform. 

We provide support for a few SMBs around the country. 

Some customers are heavy users, with involved configurations, and the setup may include high availability configured with two boxes. 

Others use it as just a gateway between their infrastructure and the internet with very simple configurations that don't include web filtering. 

Active directory integration domain is used for some, but not all customers. Common items include DNATs and SSL VPN. Most customers use VPNs, and site-to-site connections (REDs or IPsec).

We also use virtualized UTMs for LABs.

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WY
IT Engineer at Wise Communication

We mostly use UTM for the protection of our network and the web. Some of our customers use it for email protection. We work mainly with governmental organizations. Our company was initially a distributor of the forerunner to UTM, a company called Astaro. We provide UTM to our customers and we are now partners with Sophos. 

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NO
CEO at Tomans Consulting

We use Sophos UTM as a firewall and access control. The firewall has web filtering and anti-fishing tools. We synced Sophos UTM with our Microsoft Windows Active Directory.

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JD
IT Manager at Manual Workers Union

The features that we're currently using are mainly just for the endpoint protection, which is for the service and the workstations. We basically use it for the servers, the main servers, and then from there for the client, which is basically the laptops and the PCs.

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AH
Owner / Network Security Engineer at Texarkana IT

We use Sophos UTM as an on-premise firewall.

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AM
IT Head at Dee Development

I'm IT head at our company in India and we are customers of Sophos UTM.

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reviewer1640424 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Director at a security firm with 1-10 employees

Sophos UTM is a virtual appliance used for network security.

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Hassan Moussafir - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Senior Expert at Wafaassurance

We implemented the solution into our infrastructure here in the insurance company, to protect the flow between the company and its partner.

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Rana Chaudhury - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at KARLE INFRA PRIVATE LIMITED

It is used to protect the servers. It is a very transparent solution. 

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FR
Occupational safety technician at Concremat

We primarily use the solution for the firewall and VPN.

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AlaaMady - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

We use it as an internet firewall, and as our web application firewall.

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Saurabh Bhansali - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT at Venus Jewel

We use Sophos to protect the entire network, including the web servers and everything else. 

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GM
Owner at supernovatel

Most of our clients use Sophos UTM as a perimeter firewall for branch offices. Additionally, we use the Sophos XG, RED firewall for extending the network, and the Sophos Intercept X to complement the firewalls.

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RobertMaalouf - PeerSpot reviewer
Network and Security Specialist at Tetracom S.A.L

We use Sophos UTM for multi-site VPN, quarantine, sandboxing, and IPF. It blocks malware and other unauthorized apps. 

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RR
Owner at Perspectiva company

I use the solution in my home premises to protect my internal network. I am a customer of Sophos. 

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SI
General manager at DotCom, Lda.

Sophos UTM is a complete firewall we use to protect from internet threats and check traffic from our network to the internet. It's a firewall covering all layers of protection.

Sophos has some plugins that run on the cloud, but it's transparent to the end-user. For example, there is something to identify threats on an email system called SenseStorm, which is connected to the Sophos Cloud and identifies new threats then spreads the same pattern to all Sophos installations in real-time. I can say that almost 100 percent of our customer companies who have a file solution use Sophos.

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reviewer1292835 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

We primarily used the solution to replace Cyberoam. For a client recently, we replaced their old SD device with the latest version, XG 210.

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CA
System Analyst at Abbey Mortgage Bank

I use this solution for my severs.

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JK
Technical Manager at Digital World

We use this solution as a firewall, for DCP filtering, applications, and training.

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Dana Bailes - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

We primarily use the solution for a number of use cases, including the firewall, web filtering, email filtering, and email encryption. UTM does it all. The only thing that we don't use it for is web application and protection. We don't really have any web servers in-house.

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MM
Senior Network Engineer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

We are a solution provider and I am the architect of solutions that employ Sophos UTM.

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ZE
Pre-sales manager at National Information Technology Company

We are partners with Palo Alto and several IT certificate vendors, like Sophos. We deploy Sophos UTM for customers.

Internally we use Sophos, but we deploy solutions including both Sophos and Palo Alto Networks to our customers. We are an IT integration company. Our services include the deployment of security appliances.

Our environment includes Sophos UTM for internal use, which means it is protecting the network. It is protecting our environment.

We publish our services like the help desk, mail server, and other servers. Sophos UTM offers us protection for publishing and the VPN.

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WA
Management Board Member and Network Engineer at NewLogics

Sophos UTM offers considerable protection and employs a very well-structured pricing scheme.

It's a good choice for businesses that need a basic security solution with a good price-performance ratio. However, it's not a good choice for businesses that need a complex security solution. That's why I'm also considering Fortinet, which can provide a more comprehensive security solution.

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Daniel  Elías - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a training & coaching company with 11-50 employees

We use Sophos UTM to secure Internet connection inside our company and to provide secure remote access to the in-office network.

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FS
Account Executive at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We primarily use the solution for firewalls. 

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MA
Senior Network Engineer at Dejpaad

This is a next-generation firewall. I use it for mail security for clients. 

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Faruk Ahmed - PeerSpot reviewer
Support Engineer at Ensure Support Services Limited

I mainly use Sophos UTM to provide network security.

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reviewer1019058 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Sales Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Mostly when we see that the client has no security product, we offer both of the products: firewall and endpoint security. We offer endpoint security solutions: EDR and XDR.

Most of the time, we offer Sophos UTM and firewall products, but when we see that the customer has a firewall already deployed, we pitch endpoint security. If they're already using a different product, we cross-sell a product. For example, if someone has an environment with just endpoint security and doesn't have XDR or EDR, we'll suggest upgrading to XDR or we'll upsell XDR.

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reviewer1042635 - PeerSpot reviewer
Science Technician at a government with 201-500 employees

The primary use of the solution is to create a firewall, web filters, and load balance. We also use it as an IPS.

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MS
Senior IT Specialist at Shabana Group

We use Sophos UTM to protect our infrastructure.

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reviewer1452492 - PeerSpot reviewer
President at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees

We use this solution ourselves and we also deploy to our clients. It is a capable, general-purpose firewall with VPN tunneling built in, and a lot of web features if you're hosting a website. We are resellers of Sophos and I'm a partner in our company. 

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it_user1143483 - PeerSpot reviewer
Digital Transformation and Technological Innovation Manager at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees

We primarily use the solution for perimeter security in order to protect content. We also use it for the XG firewall.

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JM
Cyber Security Officer at Grupo Vision

Our primary use cases include: 

  • Remote SSL connection
  • Web-filtering
  • Web server protection
  • WAF application.
  • Firewall rules
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reviewer1420764 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at a real estate/law firm with 51-200 employees

We use it for email security, malware protection, IPS, and filtering.

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

We mainly use it for web filtration — we have a number of small websites. It's also a VPN — that's filtering, firewalling, and IPS.

Within our organization, there are roughly 250 people using Sophos UTM. Also, we have around 15 XG users.

We plan on using XG for the next few years, but we are going to stop using UTM on our main site.

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reviewer1223154 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Architect at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

We primarily use this solution for:

  • VLAN separated network
  • Proxy / SSL-Interception
  • VPN (IPsec and SSL)
  • Reverse Proxy / Webserver Security
  • Email Security / Mail gateway
  • HA (Hot-Standby)
  • IPS / ATP
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IH
Network & Hardware Administrator at Nile Projects & Trading Co.

We use this solution for IPsec & site-to-site SSL VPN.

My environment involves connecting all of our branches with the head office through one Sophos XG 210 device. This is done using IPsec and SSL VPN, after which we apply a web filter, as well as an application filter to ensure that we are getting a secure connection.

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it_user1104651 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at Robert Obrinsky Industries, LLC

I use this solution in both the home and office, and I am also a reseller of the product. It is used for Unified Threat Management for SMB to Mid-Size companies. It provides VPN solutions for our clients, and it has the absolute best UI in the industry.

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DI
CEO at NG

We use this solution for communication endpoint, encryption, and network security. We are focused on providing security software to the small to mid-market enterprises; the essence of our delivery is internet security.

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EC
Owner at Technologies International

SMB firewall.

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JR
IT Specialist at Arnett Carbis Toothman LLP
  • Network border protection for clients and internal company
  • It is used for small to medium-sized businesses and networks.
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MN
IT Security Specialist at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Our primary use case of this solution is IDS and IPS. We also use it for application availability. 

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it_user72771 - PeerSpot reviewer
Info Sec Consultant at Size 41 Digital

A client wanted to trial Sophos UTM 9 before deploying it into a production environment because, historically, Sophos has not had the best of reputations in AWS. The client had used Sophos in other environments, hence they wanted to stick to what they know.

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AP
Manager IT and Security at Health Street

Threat management for servers is our primary use case. We're not using it on all workstations, just a few. We're primarily using it on servers.

The version we're using is fully in the cloud, not on-prem.

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MG
Asst General Manager(C&IT) at NMDC Ltd

We were looking for a solution which provided a single view for both a wired and wireless network. We were previously using the Cyberoam 200ia firewall appliance and wanted an appliance which could support 1500 to 3000 corporate users. The solution also required a wireless access controller scalable to at least a 125 second wave 802.11 ac wireless access point. We purchased a Sophos XG 450 appliance with Sophos wireless access points.

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GlobalNe150a - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Network Security Admin at a consumer goods company with 501-1,000 employees

I am using it for security, antivirus, and malware detection.

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Securityde9c - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Architect at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

It is used as an antivirus.

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DW
Solutions Architect at National Renewable Energy Laboratory

We use it for antivirus.

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MP
DevOps at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
  • Firewalls
  • Developer access
  • VPN traffic
  • Rerouting and routing.

I am using it to route traffic for developer access or regular traffic for my instances. I have a web application, and I control access to and from it in one of my environments.

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SR
Architecture and DevOps at hc1.com

Our Sophos UTM provides a secure VPN solution. It allows us to have a VPN solution that limits access to certain sensitive areas in our environment.

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JX
CIO at Quartesian, LLC

We are using as a firewall product.

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FS
Director of Cloud Technology at Avalere Health\Inovalon

Every single Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) has Sophos in front of it. I also use it for Outbound Gateways in my WorkSpaces environment.

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MC
Senior Solutions Specialist at centerprise international

The primary use case for using this product is as a firewall.

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Todd285 - PeerSpot reviewer
Unified Communications Specialist at Agentra

My primary use case is as a VPN, a firewall and a web filter.

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NP
Cloud Network Administrator at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

It helps us with protection, with concurrent use of the VPN.

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it_user588840 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO with 501-1,000 employees

We use Sophos UTM as our main firewall with all its features included. Mainly, it controls all of our network perimeter security: firewall, IDS/IPS, and web application firewall (including VoIP).

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CTO0a65 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Currently, we are using the product on-premise. However, in the future, we would like to deploy an AWS instance too.

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it_user805347 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Engineer

We have been rolling out the Sophos UTM platform to our clients over the past two years. About 80% of our managed clients have been moved to Sophos UTM. We have been migrating them mostly from SonicWall and Cisco ASA.

We do not use Sophos UTM in AWS. However, we have deployed a few Sophos XGs in an Azure environment.

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it_user701427 - PeerSpot reviewer
Snr Dev Ops Engineer at a tech services company

We have quite a lot of web service hosting, either websites or hosting APIs. We use Sophos as a two-factor authentication process. So, if they are outside or working in a remote office, they will need to use the Sophos VPN, which is gotten from the Sophos UTM, then ideally they will be developers. However, they can also be BI guys, DevOps people, etc. 

Sophos UTM allows you to compartmentalize different sections or different people, having those people connect to different services.

We use it for primarily for two-factor authentication, for VPN to allow employees security access the servers and to ensure people do not access things they should not have access to.

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it_user693984 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • Providing the firewall to my small business office. We run it on a fanless PC and a supporting 50Mb/s VDSL connection.
  • Supports 10 devices and has 40 rules.
  • Using UTM and IPS extensively.
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HP
Network Security Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Regarding the use cases, the solution was deployed for a production client, which was a hardware production company.

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VM
Assistant Manager IT Zircon Technology at Zircon Techonolgy

We use this product for network security and implement using a Sophos SD-RED device. 

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HS
IT Technician at Wm tech

I am an implementor and I provide support for customers' use cases. The solution is used as a load balancer, and for VPN access.

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

I mainly use UTM for app filters.

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Buyer's Guide
Sophos UTM
June 2025
Learn what your peers think about Sophos UTM. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: June 2025.
860,632 professionals have used our research since 2012.