We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure 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."This solution has solid UTM features combined with a nice GUI."
"We were looking for the VPN feature and controlling the inflow and outflow of all the traffic within the site and across the sites. We are also using it for the VPN and VLANs."
"The solution has very good threat and content filtering switches."
"The main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"Their reliability and their policy of pre-shipping replacements when a unit has failed."
"I like Fortinet FortiGate's antispam filter, SPN, and clustering features."
"It's an easy solution to set up."
"The Intrusion Prevention System and the web filtering are both working well."
"The features I've found most valuable are the packet captures and packet traces because they help me debug connections. I like the logs because they help me see what's going on."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"We have not had to deal with stability issues."
"I think Cisco ASA Firewall is the most stable firewall solution."
"All the features except IPS are valuable. IPS is not a part of my job."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco Secure Firewall is its ease of configuration and that it's scalable for firewalls and VPNs."
"The ASDM (Adaptive Security Device Manager) which is the graphical user interface, works out, and Cisco keeps it current."
"Its ability to work with the traffic."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Cyberoam UTM's most valuable feature is that it can be configured any way you like."
"Web and content filtering are valuable in preventing people from abusing the network and pushing up the bandwidth price."
"The solution's web filtering is an important feature for us in our company."
"You can geofence yourself if there is an incoming attack or a continuous ping from a company outside your country."
"The product has helped control bandwidth utilization, as well as enhanced connectivity and security to remote locations."
"The product is easy to maintain."
"The tool is stable."
"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."
"There are mainly two areas of improvement in Fortinet FortiGate— the licensing cost and the timing of upgrading licenses for boxes."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"The support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"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."
"Fortinet needs more memory to save the log files. We need it to save the logs on the hardware and not in the cloud. I know this feature is available in FortiCloud, but if we need this log locally, it is not available."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"While FortiGate is cheaper than most other solutions, we're seeing increased license renewal costs. Most of our clients are asking for more significant discounts because the price is going up."
"The product would be improved if the GUI could be brought into the 21st Century."
"The content filtering on an application level is not as good as other solutions such as Palo Alto."
"There are always vulnerabilities that come up and there was one in early 2018 but this was patched with software updates."
"One issue with Firepower Management Center is deployment time. It takes seven to 10 minutes and that's a long time for deployment. In that amount of time, management or someone else can ask me to change something or to provide permissions, but during that time, doing so is not possible. It's a drawback with Cisco. Other vendors, like Palo Alto or Fortinet do not have this deployment time issue."
"The stability is not the best."
"The usability of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense is an issue. The product is still under development, and the user interface is very difficult to deal with."
"The only con that I have really seen with it is the reporting structure. FirePOWER is good. It has been a great help because, before that, it was not good at all."
"I have found that Cisco reporting capabilities are not as rich as other products, so the reporting could be improved."
"I have problems with the email filtering. Emails pass through without any filtering affecting them. When I get back to them and tell them this is the issue, they check everything and say it is not in their database signature and they have to update it. But you know, by that time, my user has already opened it."
"The reporting part could be more user-friendly for troubleshooting and identifying network issues. It should be more easy for a normal user to identify the problem in their network."
"The implementation policy needs improvment."
"Technical support could be faster."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could have a more advanced reporting function."
"Cyberoam configuration is done through the browser, which is one of the places that viruses spread."
"When it comes to web filtering and application filtering, it does not contain enough signatures to determine all of the sites that need to be blocked."
"The technical support response time could be faster."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall writes "Highlights and helps us catch Zero-day vulnerabilities traveling across our network". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Cyberoam UTM writes "Stable and has a straightforward setup; reporting is fast and easy". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos UTM, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Sophos XG and OPNsense. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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