We performed a comparison between GajShield Next Generation Firewall and Sophos Cyberoam 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."There are great templates, so you don't have to customize them if you don't want to. You do have the option to custom create some folders and some reports, however, with what is there, you don't really need to go through extra effort, as they already give you a lot of predefined views of reports and so forth."
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"The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtering testing applications, web filtering, and the new VPN."
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"The solution has very good threat and content filtering switches."
"Initial setup is easy to configure."
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"It is a stable solution."
"Gajshiled's enterprise cloud and DLP-level features give it an advantage over other products."
"GajShield has improved our mobile device-based connectivity."
"GajShield Next Generation Firewall's best feature is the network DLP."
"The most valuable feature of the GajShield Next Generation Firewall is the user-friendly settings, dashboards, and anti-threat protection. Additionally, the solution upgrades frequently which is good because we receive new features."
"It is an easily scalable solution...The initial setup was very easy."
"Web and content filtering are valuable in preventing people from abusing the network and pushing up the bandwidth price."
"The product, itself, doesn't seem to have any bugs or glitches."
"I'm more inclined towards the conventional firewall. So for me, I'm more geared towards the standard firewall type functionalities as well as the web application firewall because that seems to work fine."
"The most valuable feature of this product is the threat protection."
"I like the SSL VPN connection. Cyberoam works well for controlling users and authenticating their connection to the internet."
"I found that the best feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is reporting. Its reporting feature is excellent, fast, and easy to prep and launch."
"Technical support is excellent."
"You can geofence yourself if there is an incoming attack or a continuous ping from a company outside your country."
"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."
"The biggest "gotcha" is that if the client purchases what they call the UTM shared bundle, which has unified threat management on both, it's not as easy to manage if you have more than one firewall."
"The support structure needs to be improved because every time we contact them, there is a delay in the response."
"The scalability could be better."
"They've become quite expensive."
"They sometimes hide some features and if you want to enable them, you have to go in the CLI, enable the feature and configure it through the CLI. Customers, typically, like everything to be done by the GUI."
"There are some tiny bugs that sometimes affect the operations. In the past revision of it, there was a bug. Because of the bug, we had to downgrade the version. It happened only with the last revision."
"Improvement is needed in the Web Filter quotas to restrict users with allocated quotas."
"GajShield Next Generation Firewall would be improved with the addition of a load-balancing feature."
"We face issues with some configuration parts that we don't understand in the solution, and sometimes we face issues with the VPN connection."
"We raised a support ticket, and the project didn't get a proper response. There was a skill issue in TAC support."
"GajShield Next Generation Firewall could improve the flow of the settings. If somebody's using a Cisco firewall or any other brand and they want to use GajShield Next Generation Firewall the platform's UI is a bit different. If it was more similar to the others it would be better."
"Sometimes, we have to use SD-WAN support for the solution, which can be improved by adapting some features that will help our approach to network services."
"The firewall configuration and administration screens could use some improvement."
"Gajshield can improve SD-WAN compatibility at an enterprise cloud level."
"The documentation is not straightforward."
"The blocking needs to be improved."
"I would like to see a better content management pack and also the website searching should be better."
"The technical support response time could be faster."
"Technical support could be faster."
"Maybe network traffic analysis for malware and malicious behavior."
"In my experience the solution can be easier to configure with more documentation, we need more training."
"The reports need to be more detailed and granular."
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GajShield Next Generation Firewall is ranked 30th in Firewalls with 7 reviews while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews. GajShield Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.8, while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of GajShield Next Generation Firewall writes "User-friendly settings, frequent updates, and responsive support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Cyberoam UTM writes "Stable and has a straightforward setup; reporting is fast and easy". GajShield Next Generation Firewall is most compared with Sophos XG, WiJungle and Netgate pfSense, whereas Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Sophos UTM, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Sophos XG. See our GajShield Next Generation Firewall vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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