We performed a comparison between Sangfor NGAF and Sophos XG 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 most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is the simple configuration."
"Whenever I need something, Fortinet improves and updates the software for me."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use. Anyone can easily maintain it."
"From the firewall perspective, the rules and policies are very sufficient and easy to use."
"Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"The performance is good."
"Its performance in fulfilling our requirements has been satisfactory."
"One of the valuable features is a standardized OS."
"Sangfor NGAF works accordingly with our customers. The solution has good performance, easy to use, and integrates well with the endpoints."
"So far, the performance and reliability of the product have supported our company's critical network traffic."
"It seems to be a durable, stable product."
"Sangfor has the best capabilities for securing connections, securing web browsers, securing servers, and general threat protection."
"The VPN connectivity feature is really nice."
"The most valuable features are the WAN optimization, the internet access gateway (IAG), and the central console, which allows us to implement on their firewall."
"The absolute best part of Sangfor NGAF is their support. It's a 24/7 support channel, and the last time I requested their assistance I got a reply within three minutes. They helped solve the problem immediately."
"I think Sangfor NGAF is more valuable than Cisco products because of its simplicity and ease of management. If I compare it with Palo Alto and Cisco, both are quite complex products. And if I compare it with FortiGate firewalls from Fortinet, I have also used all these products. Fortinet and Sangfor NGAF are similar products because the applications behind the application and policy layers are almost identical."
"The stability of Sophos XG is good, it has good performance."
"Most of the features Sophos XG has are valuable. However, if I have two different ISP, I'm able to create an automatic switch between the two ISPs. I can do the same thing for the cloud as well. If I have two subnets coming from the cloud, I'm able to create a type of switch between both of them where if there is traffic on one and has the traffic drop, I'm able to switch to the other ISP without any problems. It's a normal feature and I get to enjoy the ability to switch between services with no issues."
"IPS works smoothly."
"Excellent product, meets most of the security needs of companies of various sizes. You can buy it without fear."
"The product's initial setup phase was straightforward."
"Technical support is responsive."
"The solution is scalable."
"Sophos XG protects our network from advanced threats."
"We had a minor problem where there was a major system upgrade on the hardware platfrom and the Mac client was not available as soon as it might have been. The PC client was available immediately, but we had to wait a month or so, before there was a mac client. I was slightly irritated that it was not ready on time, but it was eventually resolved."
"I don't like that anything more than very basic reporting is not included."
"Some of the features in the graphical user interface do not work, which requires that we used the command-line-interface."
"Its customer service could be better."
"There were quite a few problems with the stability of the system."
"Security is a continuous process. In every product, there is a requirement for improvement. Its pricing should also be improved according to Indian market requirements. They must also improve on the reporting part. Its reporting can be more precise. If we can get a real-time report in a specific format, it will be helpful for customers to know about the current status of their security."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"Sangfor has recently increased their prices."
"The product must provide more IPS features."
"The solution has too many bugs and these slow down the implementation."
"I believe that IAM and NGFW need to merge into a single box, instead of there being two separate box solutions."
"They need to improve their research team and they need to study their data to analyze it and build the product."
"The tool is expensive."
"The reporting and log management could be improved."
"The web interface needs to be improved, making it more user-friendly."
"The interface could be simplified and diagnostic system graphs improved."
"It is complicated to get the reports if you are not experienced with Sophos."
"The solution is tied to the US dollar. You need to pay whatever the equivalent is in your own currency, and, if the exchange is bad, it can really add to the cost."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvements made to the policy and simplify the policy-making, as the complexity of it makes it really tough."
"XG is at its end of life. People are moving to XGS."
"I need to open the email to see what it contains and the value of it before I know whether to access it or not."
"They need to improve the SD-WAN feature."
"The current bandwidth consumption is no longer shown in the XG and XGS."
Sangfor NGAF is ranked 20th in Firewalls with 31 reviews while Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews. Sangfor NGAF is rated 8.0, while Sophos XG is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Sangfor NGAF writes "Affordable, easy to configure firewall with fast, responsive support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos XG writes "Easy to use and deploy with an improved pricing structure in place". Sangfor NGAF is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Netgate pfSense, Check Point NGFW, Fortinet FortiOS and Huawei NGFW, whereas Sophos XG is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS, SonicWall TZ and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway. See our Sangfor NGAF vs. Sophos XG report.
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