We performed a comparison between Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall and Sophos UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"All of the features of Fortinet FortiGate are useful and the security protection is good."
"It is simple to manage, and there are a lot of functionalities in the same box."
"Anti-Spam web content filterinG."
"It's very easy to set up, it's very easy to make policies and, for an organization, that means you don't need IT expert in firewalls. You just need to have somebody who knows a little bit of IT, and that's it. With other products, you need someone with a "Masters" degree in firewalls."
"It's great for capturing the traffic and troubleshooting it."
"The solution has very good threat and content filtering switches."
"The threat prevention is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"Forcepoint is a complete package because it has network and systems applications. Other firewalls are only for the network."
"Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is very simple, easy to use, and flexible."
"The central security management center and the content management center are very good."
"Forcepoint is a good, stable solution."
"The most valuable feature is SD-WAN."
"When our customer needs some optimization, along with performance and security. If they want everything in one package, I recommend Forcepoint because they have everything."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"The feature that we like the most about Forcepoint is that we know the technology and have confidence in it. We can have several functionalities to simplify operations and management. We can combine functionalities like log ownership to review the number of devices in the infrastructure."
"Sophos UTM has improved the porting section. It has improved security by seeing the gaps. For example, when you discover that an entry has been using a certain application, with Sophos UTM acting as a Layer 7 firewall, you can block the application, not the port."
"The stability, overall, is excellent. I haven't had a problem in the last two years."
"Scaling out cannot be easier, as there are many migration paths."
"It allows our developers to be able to securely log into servers to deploy and manage software."
"An easy solution to learn because the graphics are very intuitive."
"Brings greater visibility into the network traffic coming inside and passing away from the company."
"Efficient and effective - it's easy to separate rules."
"It is a very good product. The threat monitoring process is the most valuable feature."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"A couple of things I've seen that need improvement, especially in terms of a hard coding. The driver-level active moment really is out-of-the-box and we have to have contact the customer support and sometimes it is difficult to resolve."
"We would like to see an upgrade to the VPN feature, we are using the VPN from outside of our office and there is a limitation to 10 connections, more connections would be suitable."
"It would be ideal if they had some sort of GUI interface for troubleshooting and diagnostics."
"The license renewal process, annual renewal price, and the web application firewall features should be improved."
"Some configuration elements cannot be easily altered once created."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"Configuration is not easy because it has an old-fashioned interface. The configuration interface is highly complex, and it's been the same for years. They have to change the interface."
"They need to improve their alerts."
"In larger companies with extensive infrastructure, retrieving logs for a longer period of time can sometimes take a bit longer than desired."
"Next Generation Firewall's configuration could be improved."
"Making this solution easier to use would be an improvement."
"They need to increase the local support here. There are also some bugs or fixes on which they need to work. They very well know about these bugs. In terms of licensing, I would like them to either increase the number of features in a single license or make licensing more flexible."
"A VPN client feature is missing in our region, which we hope Forcepoint will address in future updates."
"If I want to allow access to Facebook, yet not allow the user to access videos, then I am not able to do it with this product."
"The reporting system needs to allow for customizations because many reports do not include details that we expect."
"The integration capabilities could be better."
"We need to speed up the support."
"With Sophos UTM, there is a general rule in the firewall when the country blocking can block some countries from accessing your data. In the current version, you still need to add it by putting in the IP range. This feature would be helpful for administrators and it gives them the advantage to block stuff in less time."
"The support could be better."
"The scalability of the product is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The memory and processing were problematic. The interface could be better."
"The solution is not scalable."
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Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 41 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 3rd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.6, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall writes "Provides decent protection for the LAN but complicated interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, Check Point NGFW, Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall vs. Sophos UTM report.
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