Intercept X Endpoint reviews

Number One and Smartest Solution

Opmerkingen: Best solution that you can even sell over other AVs as an add on even if they are on a current contract.

Pluspunten:

It is the best software I have found for COMPLETE ransomware protection.

Minpunten:

Price for Endpoint, Intercept X and EDR all adds up fast and can scare clients.

Great product within a top tier suite of hardware and software

Opmerkingen: Considering that this is one piece to an overall package, we have been very happy and the end to end visibility is unmatched when researching threats in our environment. What few downsides are present are miniscule when packaged together with the rest of the offerings.

Pluspunten:

The deployment capabilities and consistency in using MDM deployment has been very important to minimize the opportunity for devices to be put into production without properly being secured. not all MSI packages are deployed the same and we have had products in the past that have installed well on some machines and not on others so consistency is key for the deployment.

Minpunten:

The agent has not yet had all services re-branded after the Hitman acquisition which led us down an unnecessary rabbit hole. My only other complaint would be that the agent runs heavy on workstations and in many cases, has pushed us to upgrade to m.2 drives for machines that otherwise didnt need them.

Improved Endpoint Protection With Intercept X Endpoint

Pluspunten:

The software comes with amazing computer security featuresIt makes endpoint protection easy and is always updatedIt comes with some great encryption capabilities

Minpunten:

Well, no major flaws as Intercept X Endpoint has been great and powerful

Great protection, however...

Opmerkingen: Overall it is a great protection option if you are looking for a big company, depending on your work, purpose of it and if you don't mind having to constantly request access to blocked applications... other than that, good product.

Pluspunten:

Sophos offers great overall protection, specially for big companies and networks. It is worth the money and value.

Minpunten:

Only con I found with this product, which is to me a big pet peeve, is the need to contact our IT department because Sophos tends to block several applications and software used on my work space. Only way to get authorized to continue with my work is by contacting IT (product administration) so I can get allowance to continue through these checkpoints.

Good XDR Solution in market

Opmerkingen: Overal Sophos XDR solution have helped us to keep safe network.

Pluspunten:

Threat hunting and analytic dashboard gives insights of the threats observed in the company network and the actions performed to stop the same.

Minpunten:

Does not support some older version of OS which needs to be supported and product EOL should be atleast 10 yrs

Easy to deploy inclusive protection

Opmerkingen: The software was very easy to install and configure. We have not had any issues with viruses or malware. We also have not had anything flagged by other solutions we have tested alongside Intercept X.

Pluspunten:

For such a sophisticated software approach it was surprising how low a footprint Intercept X was on our computers and networks.

Minpunten:

The concept of non-database driven antivirus/antispyware solutions takes some time to wrap your (and others) heads around, but once you look into the process it is quite impressive.

The Terminator for Malware

Opmerkingen: MOST EXCELLENT, overall experience. Cloud-based control panel and 24/7 managed support helps provide peace of mind no matter what size deployment you're working with.

Pluspunten:

Signatureless, Deep Learning, Neural Network based protection unparalleled by anything else in existence. Protects against today's threats and zero-day threats; even protects against threats yet to be seen. Not ONE single Sophos-protected machine has ever fallen victim to ransomware.

Minpunten:

I honestly cannot think of anything that can be improved, or that I didn't like.

Strong Protection and Centrally Managed Make For A Great Experience

Opmerkingen: We wanted a A/V solution that provided AI and cloud management.

Pluspunten:

Sophos Endpoint has been a great addition to our organization. It makes AV management far simpler than we could have imagined. With a centralized interface, we can manage PC's and deal with any issues with little knowledge to the end user. It integrates wonderfully with our AD and our Sophos XG Firewalls. The protection it provides is fantastic.

Minpunten:

Occasionally we do encounter some issues with updates not always reenabling the endpoint. but it's rare and fixed easily. I do wish there was an easy way to push out the installer. Support from Sophos is slow, can be on hold for hours.

Excellent as protection highly recommended product, need to improve in reports, information details

Pluspunten:

Simply peace of mind! In 6 years, we have had no problem with security issues, ramson attacks, etc.

Minpunten:

Improve in reporting and details in threats information/Alerts

sophos intercept

Pluspunten:

Protects computers, never had an issue so must be doing it's job

Minpunten:

Haven't noticed any problems as a user of the system

Does the job really well, but at a cost to computer resources

Pluspunten:

Sophos Intercept X is easy to install and doesn't interrupt the user with pop-ups unless there is a legitimate reason. The admin portal is also very useful. It is easy to know where things are in the portal and it is easy to read. When the users are set up properly there are a lot of tools for keeping track of the status of each user. It can show you what problems may be occurring on a user's machine, and it can even show you if their behavior (types of websites they are visiting, etc) is risky behavior.

Minpunten:

Intercept X requires a lot of resources from the computer it is installed on. It does frequent scans throughout the day, often eating up a big chunk of memory. I have not found a way to minimize the impact on memory during these scans, and there isn't a built in option to delay a scan. Setting up users in the admin portal can also be tedious. If you don't add every user in the same way it can be difficult to keep user data as far as what you can see in the user interface. It helps to send each user their own link and to make sure you have a good naming convention for all of your computers. Before we started adding macs to our active directory every mac's name was the same and it was difficult to know who's computer it was from the directory unless it was properly assigned to a user. A lot of these difficulties were user error from us as the admins, but it wasn't easy to clean up and organize.

Great Product for your Endpoint peace of mind

Opmerkingen: Really positive experience of using this product and deploys easily. Support and online community is great and you can get the answers you need quickly

Pluspunten:

The product is very feature rich and allows us to, in quite a bit of granularity stop, block and allow devices to do things - the product is very intuitive and when testing against other products found threats quicker

Minpunten:

As with everything there is functionality that is "gated" behind extra licensing requirements

Great for granular control

Opmerkingen: Have not used Intercept X, but saw a demonstration. It looks like a good product that can isolate an infected computer and allow deep investigations of what where and wehn it happened.

Pluspunten:

Easy to setup and push out to Endpoints. Love the ease of setting up Web control and application control. Clone the base policy make changes to it and apply it to one computer or all computers and servers. Like the fact you can set application controls as well to allow users to add .exe files or disallow them.

Minpunten:

Reporting of computers is a little flaky. When a computer updates, it disables certain services which throws an alert. When the service restarts, you have to manually clear the alert.

Great and reliable antivirus

Pluspunten:

Network security is very important to my company, and one of the widely used and recommended antivirus programs that users need to have installed in order to remote VPN is Sophos, so that says a lot to me about the reliability of the software. So far I have had no issues and have not been infected by any viruses since using the tool. It seems to be a very robust tool and works to protect my files, downloads, browsers, and network activity. The settings are also easy to change.

Minpunten:

The cloud based configuration is interesting.. Maybe I'm just not used to it, but if one where to have no internet connection then you can't modify settings. But then at the same time, the cloud based settings allow one to globally modify all the clients that are on the account, so I could see that being a powerful feature.

We haven't had any trouble, I guess Sophos is working? :-)

Pluspunten:

The great thing is our users don't get interfered by working while being fully protected. I think it's nice that we can enable device control. There are a lot of external people coming in and without some overview of what they connect to our devices we would've probably gotten in trouble a lot if it wasn't for Sophos

Minpunten:

We've contacted the customer support a few times and I feel this isn't on par with the security the software gives. We get an exhausting list of things to try to fix the problem but when it doesn't there isn't a real followup.. We end up testing ourselves or finding the fix online.

Powerful management console for enterprise

Opmerkingen: Sophos is a giant in the market of enterprise antivirus. Recent years, Microsoft Windows offers free antivirus software with great enterprise management tool. Personally I prefer Microsoft.

Pluspunten:

It provides powerful management console for enterprise administrators to deploy agent to workstations, and monitor client status. With simple and clear interface for end user.

Minpunten:

The client agent requires large memory usage, usually at least 1GB. As it has cloud-enabled analysis for unknown websites, client agents will send these website addresses to Sophos server, hence losts of bandwidth is consumed.

Overall the Sophos Endpoint Protection has been very good.

Opmerkingen: Fully, cloud-based administration of endpoint protection software.

Pluspunten:

I like the cloud-centric management portal of the product. I, as the administrator, can keep an eye on the entire company. The portal (as well as the endpoint products) are all globally acccessible, too.

Minpunten:

I would like a little more control of the endpoints monitored; sometimes I need a "reach out and touch you" facility. PUA's keep coming up and I'm never sure if I've removed them or not. That goes for several warnings. Some of them are only temporary (missed 2 updates, for example), but they still show up as alerts, even though they have gotten the last 10 updates. And finally, the website restrictions are pretty ridiculously restrictive.

The complete package

Opmerkingen: Overall security to make sure people do not do things they are not suppose to, and people are not trying to get into the network that shouldn't be.

Pluspunten:

Sophos products simply just work, and they work well. I have nothing to fear with Intercept X installed on machines. The great thing is, it ties into the Sophos firewalls, so if anything happens, the firewall can isolate that machine.

Minpunten:

Nothing... no negatives about this software at all. Sophos has the complete package.

Obvious Choice

Pluspunten:

Automatically detect and prioritize potential threats

Minpunten:

The difficulty in creating exceptions...

Sophos

Pluspunten:

VPN access, Protection, reports, remote monitoring

Minpunten:

If there are no scheduled jobs on the system the Scheduler service will not start up

Excellent Endpoint Protection with Cloud Management

Opmerkingen: Sophos Endpoint protection is fairly priced and adds piece of mind to device security, but requires the addition of remote access to complete the product.

Pluspunten:

Sophos Endpoint Protection is managed via Sophos Central, the cloud management portal for nearly all Sophos Products. It allows rapid deployment of Sophos Endpoint Software to MacOS and Windows, and reports and allows policies and users to be centrally managed. It's very good at catching nearly all issues.

Minpunten:

Occasionally its not so good and some issues still require physical access to the device to remove the issue.

Great antiviruses stopper

Opmerkingen: Cumputers are protected from any malicious applications and viruses
Also protect mobile android phones from online threats so my personal information is secure

Pluspunten:

System work more efficiently Potential viruses and suspension files are cut out Schedules scans to protect data from threats in

Minpunten:

No local support, My country hence the support channel is quite long as wait for support from South Africa

Feel Safe Browsing

Pluspunten:

This software is amazing at what it can do. Works in the background and keeps your browsing safe to the MAX. Blocks any intrusions, keeps you away from bad site, doesn't allow you to make a wrong turn anywhere on the huge highway that is the Internet.

Minpunten:

It can be hard to set up, but that's why there is a dedicated Customer Service to help you out on the way. Sometimes it can be to extreme when blocking, but that's why you pay for it to do.

Very good Endpoint protection software

Opmerkingen: This is quite a good protection software all-around, using it I can surf the internet rest assured that I am protected from viruses and other security threats

Pluspunten:

This is a very good endpoint protection software that offers many features like anti-virus protections and protection from ransomware attacks. It also a cloud-based software hence our IT administrators are able to monitor my computers security status remotely and inform me of any threats or potential security threats on my system that I should know about.

Minpunten:

Once in a while, there are times on where it uses a lot of my computers resources. Thankfully this happens quite rarely but its annoying when it does

great product, and good end user licensing model

Opmerkingen: I am the security engineer that deployed, tested and responds to reports and performs maintenance on the product.

Pluspunten:

This product is is billed on a per user bases, and not per device, this makes environments more cost effective when users use multiple devices. Rules and exceptions work as expected

Minpunten:

No cons so far, but i do wish they supported linux desktops.