We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiOS 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."The multi-tenancy feature is most valuable. It integrates very well with FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer."
"The security on offer is very good."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is URL filtering."
"Its stability is the most valuable."
"It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"The most valuable feature of FortiGate is FortiView which provides proactive monitoring."
"The Fortinet FortiGate local partners were good. I did not have direct contact with Fortinet support."
"It is a good source for firewall protection."
"I have found the most valuable features to be the policies, cache, and the SD-WAN."
"Firewall and overall management are valuable features."
"The stability of Fortinet meets our requirements and I'm satisfied with it."
"Fortinet FortiOS's valuable features include intuitive policy creation and deployment, precise parameter settings to determine thresholds, and security profiles such as web filtering and remote application filtering, among others."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are user-friendliness, ease of use, and threat prevention."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are its constant updates and definitions."
"The fact that is it has a UTM, a Unified Threat Management feature is the most valuable aspect for us. It's an all in one product. It's like our one-stop-shop to the internet."
"We have expanded the wireless access point and switches using Fortinet FortiOS."
"Stability-wise, I rate this solution a ten out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate this solution a ten out of ten."
"It helped to connect our satellite offices to the main Amazon infrastructure in a circular way."
"Monitoring and reporting are areas that need improvement."
"The packet filtering's great. You get out what you put into it. It works great as long as you know your security and configure everything adequately. If you just pop one in and it's not configured, then it's basically wide open. It kind of depends on the admin skill, but it's an excellent product."
"UTM 9 brings along IPSec as well as iPhone and iPad support. This seems small but it’s useful."
"With over 150 firewalls in our portal, management and monitoring have never been easier."
"It allows me to easily connect with more than forty-five remote sites and more than fifty remote users between IPsec and SSL VPN, applying the web filter and application filter to ensure a secure connection."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the efficiency and mail filtering module."
"In the balance between links feature normally you can just choose one option to balance. It would be better for the solution to have more than one option, preferably three."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having a frequent ask questions(FAQ) area for people to receive quick answers to popular questions. Additionally, it would be beneficial to have an SMS notification feature. For example, if you cannot access your email you could receive an SMS message."
"With the reports, you can see it, and you can get good feelings so upper management can go, "Oh, wow. That looks pretty." However, it's very basic."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"I need user-behavior analytics, to find threat scenarios from inside the organization, insider attacks. That would be very helpful for us. In addition, I would like next-generation features for small and medium businesses. These businesses require UTM, all in one product. Fortinet must include it."
"The solution could have licensing fees reduced in the future."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"Could be improved by supporting an allocation of quota base management regarding user data."
"In terms of what needs improvement, the pricing could be lower. The price is very steep."
"Right now, it's very trendy to integrate everything into the cloud. This solution would be more effective if they did more integration in that regard."
"The reporting for this solution could be improved. It could also be more stable and offer better pricing."
"It should also manage the local DSCP network."
"The threat time interval lags a little, especially if there's a heavy load on the firewall."
"The product needs a feature that allows users to create another site on a VPN."
"For me, it is important to be able to block VPN applications, like Facebook, so I would like to see that included in the next release. With this version, if you want to block or allow a site, you now have to drag all the domains related to this site."
"The solution needs better integration with captive portals and XGs."
"Sophos should improve its ability to check something like bandwidth consumption for users or something more real-time."
"I am going to flat out say technical support is terrible. Being a Platinum level customer, I am not happy with the support."
"The management suite is easy and the agent is easy to develop."
"There can be a delay when it comes to reaching out to technical support."
"Sophos UTM could improve the way the configuration has to be done. I have to do the configuration through the command line interface but if it could be done through the graphical user interface it would be much better."
"I would like this solution to support ICAP. Also, they no longer support on-premises management, and are forcing clients to use centralized management via the cloud, which I don't agree with."
"It is a little too CPU resource intensive, so we would like to see improvements there."
Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 3rd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Fortinet FortiWeb, Darktrace and Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Fortinet FortiOS vs. Sophos UTM report.
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