The majority of our customers use Sophos XG as a traditional firewall. Some use it for endpoint protection, which is similar to anti-virus.
We also have customers that have SD-WAN as part of their use case. For the most part, it is a firewall, it depends on what the customer environment looks like that would determine how you're going to configure the appliance to work for the customer.
Technology can deliver what you want based on your environment, what you do may differ from what others do.
We have customers from insurance, some oil, and gas, as well as some from the banking sector. Based on the technicality and the peculiarities of the environment, we must explain the technology, of how Fortinet delivers its own firewall, and also others such as Check Point, and Palo Alto deliver their own firewall.
With the explanation given the customer can choose the solution, they want in their environment.
Sophos XG is easy to use.
The only area that requires improvement is scalability.
I understand why scalability is difficult in all firewalls. I understand why it is difficult in our firewalls. If you want to scale, you can scale vertically or horizontally. That is the world of scalability. However, you cannot do so for the firewall. It's a forklift, you have to buy a new appliance.
We have been deploying Sophos XG for our customers for many years.
The stability is based on the environment.
Every firewall solution has a different level of scalability. The majority of firewalls are based on the user. Scalability, in Sophos XG, requires a forklift.
The scalability could be improved.
We have between 12 and 16 customers.
I have never contacted technical support.
We have deployed more Sophos this year than in any previous year.
I have six engineers dedicated to deploying and maintaining the solution.
It is a price-based solution, not based on technology.
Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis.
I would recommend this solution to others who are interested in using it.
I would rate Sophos XG an eight out of ten.