We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate-VM 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."One of the valuable features is a standardized OS."
"The GUI is good."
"I like how we can achieve total integration."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the analytics."
"Unified Threat Management (UTM) features."
"The scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate."
"The dashboard I have found the most valuable in Fortinet FortiGate."
"We use the filtering feature the most. It has filtering and inbuilt securities. We can create customized rules to define which users can access a particular type of site. We can create policies inside the firewall."
"Overall, it's an excellent solution."
"It offers the same robust features and functionality in virtual, on-premise, and traditional data center environments."
"The web GUI is easy to use."
"The product is easy to implement."
"It's very easy to set up, even for more junior developers."
"I really like that it's internationally deployable."
"The tool improved the security in our company's virtualized environment, as it was helpful in creating an additional layer of security for the organization and for the use of the internet."
"The most valuable features are locking applications from in and out of my test network and testing malware on different devices. I use malware detection, antivirus, and basic firewall policies to check for different types of security breaches. The UI is really nice and easy to use."
"The firewall itself is very strong and provides great security."
"It meets our compliance needs in an elastic computer environment."
"What I like about Sophos UTM is that it improves my company's security. The solution is easy to set up, which I like, and it's very stable."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the simple-to-use interface."
"Brings greater visibility into the network traffic coming inside and passing away from the company."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the efficiency and mail filtering module."
"Stability-wise, I rate this solution a ten out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate this solution a ten out of ten."
"The scalability is good."
"Fortinet FortiGate is not very easy to use. The navigation could be improved to make it easier to use."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"It would be ideal if they had some sort of GUI interface for troubleshooting and diagnostics."
"We would like to see a better training platform implemented."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve if it had a cloud-managed solution."
"The captive portal could be improved."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"I think that the infrastructure for the VPN could be improved. The way that it is bundled also made it difficult to use and sell as it is too expensive."
"The interface needs to be updated and simplified."
"Web filtering is a feature that needs some improvement. There should be some additional features to allow active users to change their own passwords."
"They could provide more integration options with different platforms."
"The operating system isn't stable, so it goes to memory counters every night."
"The price model is not transparent by any means and should be made more clear. What's included in the packages is often not very obvious."
"The product does not have a good graphical interface."
"The one thing that could be improved is the integration with the exchange. The gateway level controls can be enhanced a bit more. For example, it's still little here and there. You do get malicious attacks and suspicious emails like spam. It's not like Sophos where we got a lot of spam email, and yet, it's still relatively vulnerable. It can be upgraded, maybe with a fifth-generation firmware that it is ready for unknown threats."
"The management tools should be more user-friendly."
"The application control is really bad. It needs a lot of enhancements. The traffic shaping and bandwidth control, and application control need a lot of work."
"Stay away from the wireless models, since you cannot put them in HA. They start to give you some weird issues once you start getting into multiple SSIDs and networks."
"I don't really have any notes for improvements."
"Sophos UTM's firewall is a bit weak, and some of its features lack depth compared to other products like F5."
"I am going to flat out say technical support is terrible. Being a Platinum level customer, I am not happy with the support."
"The reporting could improve by providing information on where, or from which device attacks are coming from. We are already given the country where the attack is coming from but more information would be beneficial."
"Needs to improve the certificate management (ex. Let's Encrypt support)."
"We would like to have unique viewable IDs for rules and in the packet filter logfile, for easier debugging of old log files."
Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 113 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate-VM is rated 8.4, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. 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 UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Fortinet FortiOS, OPNsense and H3C SecPath Firewalls, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Fortinet FortiGate-VM vs. Sophos UTM report.
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