We performed a comparison between Sophos UTM 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 main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"The wireless control is helpful."
"The Intrusion Prevention System and the web filtering are both working well."
"Reliability is the best feature. We faced some issues when we were setting it up, but the service, portal, and administration are good."
"I really like the captive portal feature for our guest network. It has nice VLAN features in terms of separating our network. The anti-virus is also good."
"This is a quality product with ok support, and it is better than the competition we've tried."
"The solution is easy to configure and maintain remotely."
"The virtual firewall feature is the most valuable. We have around 1,500 firewalls. We did not buy individual hardware, and the virtual firewalls made sense because we don't have to keep on buying the hardware. FortiGate is easier to use as compared to Checkpoint devices. It is user friendly and has a good UI. You don't need much expertise to work on this firewall. You don't need to worry much about DCLA, commands, and things like that."
"It has helped by identifying threats within the company. If there are computers or servers that are compromised, then we are able to identify them right away in the system."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the firewall application and application control."
"The initial setup was easy."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"Brings greater visibility into the network traffic coming inside and passing away from the company."
"Sophos has a single pane of glass which allows me to manage all my VPCs from a single instance, managing all my firewall from one place."
"The features that I've known to be most valuable are both the web security features as well as the web firewall capabilities. As a partner of Sophos firewall, we have some clients and they are using Sophos firewall UTM and we are using it as well."
"The three most important features for us are web protection, web server protection, and network protection."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos XGS is its ease of use."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The scalability of Sophos XGS is very good."
"I like the Sophos UI. It interface has a more comfortable feel than the competitors."
"Sophos XGS that's a good firewall. If you use the endpoint, then you have what Sophos calls synchronized security. That will mean that if one of the endpoints is affected, it will be automatically set in isolation."
"The VPN is the best feature."
"Sophos XGS's most valuable feature is content filtering."
"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."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"The integration with third-party tools may be something that they should work on."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a firewall solution and once it's deployed, you can rest assured that your system is secure."
"I would like to see improvements in the product's application rules."
"With the addition of some features, it is possible that FortiGate can be used in all verticals."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve if it had a cloud-managed solution."
"Updates come out agonizingly slowly, a trickle."
"It is a little too CPU resource intensive, so we would like to see improvements there."
"Monitoring and reporting are areas that need improvement."
"The lack of import/export functions for network and service options drives me mad."
"The virus updates will always depend on new viruses that are discovered. Maybe they can send a notification or a reminder for update time."
"The management suite is easy and the agent is easy to develop."
"They could definitely improve on the support, especially in other countries."
"I would like to see the SD-WAN feature improved."
"There can be lag time when updating an operating policy."
"They should customers who are facing issues with their product reviews; they found bots in it. If they can do their proper research and use the user analysis and testing, that would greatly help the clients."
"The customer service response time can be improved."
"It would be nice to have features like the network access control (NAC) that Cisco has for Identity Services Engine. In the next release, I would also like to see an increase in the performance of the processing units."
"In version 18 of Sophos XGS, the log details are not very good. However, in version 19 they are more detailed. The Fortinet FortiGate has better detail overall compared to Sophos XGS. They provide updates to the solution frequently, but they do not fix the problems that exist."
"It would be useful if Sophos XGS included DDNS-based features."
"In Sophos, the user portal is not user-friendly."
"The price of Sophos XGS could improve, it is high."
Sophos UTM is ranked 3rd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews while Sophos XGS is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 62 reviews. Sophos UTM is rated 8.4, while Sophos XGS is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos XGS writes "Easy to use, simple to learn, and offers great reporting". Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Meraki MX, whereas Sophos XGS is most compared with Sophos XG, OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, WatchGuard Firebox and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Sophos UTM vs. Sophos XGS report.
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