We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate-VM and Sophos XGS 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."The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"The stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the different types of profiling. It has been the most effective for me. The WAF and the antivirus profile are the most effective in network protection."
"The IPsec tunnels are very easily created, and quite interoperable with devices from other vendors."
"The product is easy to use and is stable. The SV1 functionality is a benefit."
"It is easy to use and performs very well."
"One of the nice things about FortiGate is that it can be deployed on the cloud or on-premises. You can actually do both. That's the biggest reason why I stick with this solution as opposed to something like Cisco Meraki. Another nice thing is that I can log directly into a FortiGate or get to it through their FortiCloud access products. They're pretty reliable and consistent. One of the reasons why I started using the product was their single pane of management. I can deploy their line of firewalls in conjunction with their switching and access points, and I can manage the entire network from one interface. I don't have to log into one interface for the firewall, another one for the access points, and another one for the switches. These firewalls have access point controller functionality built right into the system, so I don't even have to purchase additional devices to manage them."
"The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is easy to operate."
"It gives all the features of a full-fledged firewall with great performance."
"The solution is very easy to set up. It doesn't take a lot of time and offers a quick deployment, so you can start using it almost right away."
"I find the simplicity to be most valuable."
"The support is good. We don't have any issues with the technical support."
"The configuration, graphical interface and command line are easy to use."
"It provides an ease of management and configuration as well."
"Primarily, the VPN solution is most valuable. It allows you to have more flexibility in terms of what is there on the end-user device, and what is not there. You can check and make sure that they're current. It has more flexibility than just a straight VPN solution. It works really well. It has the features that 99% of people need."
"We are happy and satisfied with all the features."
"Sophos XGS has contributed to the reduction of the overall security costs of our company's customers."
"The VPN is the best feature."
"The solution is scalable."
"Spam filtering is what I love most about XGS."
"The initial setup is very simple."
"The most valuable features of Sophos XGS are a set of functionalities that are quite commendable, they call it synchronized security, where all the solutions share defense lines with each other."
"The solution is scalable."
"My only complaint about FortiGate is a lack of QinQ VLAN tunneling. I haven't found this feature in any Fortinet product. You can do this on all Cisco routers, including the smaller models. However, QinQ isn't available on the biggest, most expensive Fortinet units. They still don't have that. I think now we're on software version 6.0, and they still haven't found a solution for QinQ. It isn't a dealbreaker, but that's my main complaint."
"The solution could be more evenly structured."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"They have to just improve its performance when we enable all UTM features. When you enable all the features, the performance of FortiGate, as well as of Sophos and SonicWall, goes down."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve if it had a cloud-managed solution."
"It is difficult to size the VM in terms of machine resources, and for this reason, clients prefer the appliance."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"With FortiGate, we sometimes encounter bugs in various operating systems."
"The tool does not have a good name in the market, consisting of enterprise-class businesses, making it an area where the product lacks and needs to improve."
"They should keep us up to date about the latest version. That's the biggest thing. Currently, we have to go looking for the latest version. We should get notified about what's going on with the versions. I would like to see easier dual-factor authentication."
"The stability of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"There is always room for improvement in any solutions, including Fortinet's FortiGate-VM. Although the solution claims to have a superior throughput compared to other OEMs, upon closer examination and comparison, there is potential for significant improvement in this area. In today's rapidly evolving technology world, it is important to continuously strive for enhancement and development, and I believe Fortinet can make significant strides in this direction for the FortiGate-VM."
"The GUI could be improved."
"Sophos XGS could be improved by adding a built-in hyper-converged solution."
"I do not get notifications regarding ISP downtime."
"What could be improved in Sophos XGS is its connectivity with Azure AD. It's best if it could work directly without using any servers locally, or in the data center, and this functionality should be made available in this product."
"The customer service response time can be improved."
"The SD-WAN feature isn't very good. It's there, but it doesn't work properly."
"In the new release 19, there should be the implementation of a cloud service that you can use to set up the IPSec tunnels, and the SD-WAN from the WAN dashboard, and then you can push that configuration out to every firewall that you have."
"There are some bugs relating to the product that allow VPN users to bypass the firewall."
"There are issues with some designs being able to work on high availability."
Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 113 reviews while Sophos XGS is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 62 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate-VM is rated 8.4, while Sophos XGS is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate-VM writes "An easy-to-manage and configure tool that provides ample documentation to help with the setup phase". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos XGS writes "Easy to use, simple to learn, and offers great reporting". Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Fortinet FortiOS, OPNsense and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Sophos XGS is most compared with Sophos XG, OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, WatchGuard Firebox and Sangfor NGAF. See our Fortinet FortiGate-VM vs. Sophos XGS report.
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