Wow - reading the comments here...... sounds like I'm the only one outside of Sophos Corporate who likes this product.
And no - I'm not a Sophos employee _OR_ a Sophos plant.
In fact, I came to the firewalls grudgingly through their other products. I am (or was) a Watchguard/pfSense/Cisco/Several Others kind of guy. I started with SGN (encryption) and SMC (the server-based mobile control) and then started looking at the firewalls because of a few integrated features. I decided to go through the engineer cert training for both UTM and XG. In fact, I think I went through the XG training the day - or the day after - the training itself was released.
After all that - I don't see why everyone is so down on this product.
Sophos has been exceeding clear on the fact that 1) NO SG is not going away any time soon. 2) if you like your SG or CR product, you can KEEP your SG/CR product and 3) YES there are missing features, expect new ones soon.
Are there limitations and weaknesses - YES. It's a VERSION 1 product! (they can call it version 15 all they want. It's a v1 product)
Is it still a pretty cool damned product? YES.
Will it improve drastically? Likely, YES.
Seriously guys - give it a few months. It is brand new, needs a few tweaks, and change always sucks - but the compelling new features they've put in - heartbeat, cloud management, etc - are, or are going to be, excellent.
As of now, our NFR of the XG230 is happily running down in our server room, humming away, and acting as our primary gateway to the internet. Working like champ so far.
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