We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate-VM 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 next-gen features, the unified threat management capabilities are something that just about everybody is interested in at this point."
"The solution is stable."
"User-friendly and affordable security solution that's recommended for SMB customers. This solution has good technical support."
"The security fabric is excellent."
"Anti-Spam web content filterinG."
"It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"It's very good and very stable for businesses. It works very well."
"It performs very well."
"The technical support is very good."
"The VM it's very quick for deployment. If we need to have a POC for a customer, if we don't have any hardware physically at our premises, at our store, in our office, we can download the VM from Fortinet and install all the VM to their environment in order to run it. If we have a customer that says "let's start tomorrow" we are able to do that in a way that's not possible with a hardware version."
"One top feature is the ability to use the appliance as a WLAN controller for up to 10 access points with the new 5.6 firmware."
"High network throughput while providing leading edge network security technology for a competitive price."
"The configuration, graphical interface and command line are easy to use."
"It is very useful to make lists for rules and prepare firewall rules."
"The most valuable features we have found to be the VPN, ease of use, and overall simplicity."
"The policies are very valuable. They allow me to secure and manage future traffic effectively."
"The most valuable features in Sophos XGS are bandwidth management, content filtering, and WAN link management failover. If one internet activity or one link would fail, automatically it will switch over to another one."
"All the features are valuable, in my opinion, but for us the most important features are the network security, application control, and web server protection. Sophos Sandstorm is another good feature off the top of my head."
"The solution is easy to use and configure, once you know how to apply the policies."
"It's easy to use, and the service is good. If anything goes wrong, their support system is very reliable."
"The solution offers more antimalware and antivirus feeds than others."
"We are happy and satisfied with all the features."
"It offers an easy initial implementation."
"The most valuable features of Sophos XGS are a set of functionalities that are quite commendable, they call it synchronized security, where all the solutions share defense lines with each other."
"FortiOS is not simple."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more capabilities for troubleshooting VPN connections. For example, I do get some feedback about the current status, but I could use some history and logging of important events. The information is logged in our Syslog server, but I could use that information from the device. If they could provide a GUI to have some more insight on what's going with my VPN would be useful."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"I use the FortiGate 60D model and realized the 300Mbps bandwidth limitation. Because it is a product that offers many services, I think it could have greater bandwidth capacity."
"The pricing could be a bit better, especially when you consider how they have the most basic offering priced."
"They should offer special pricing to premium partners and customers."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"The solution could use very well-defined support for resellers."
"The solution can improve by adding separate interfaces for proxy and flow-based usage."
"Customization needs improvement."
"Support could be improved a little."
"It is a very good product, and it is good at standing by itself. It can maybe have a little bit of integration with other products, but it is not that important for most use cases."
"There should be more options to use lower-end models in a high availability configuration."
"In the next releases, it would be nice to see central cloud management."
"There were challenges during setup, and many of them were self-inflicted."
"When it comes to different interfaces there is some speed issue that can be improved in Sophos XGS."
"Sophos' technical support has degraded in the last couple of years. They seem to need to ask a lot of questions, even with simple problems, and take a long time to provide solutions."
"The application is a little slow; it takes five to ten seconds to respond to every click when configuring. If we need to do significant configuration, it can take a lot of time. This might be because we have a low-end machine, and it could be faster with a high-end one."
"I do not get notifications regarding ISP downtime."
"In future releases, this solution could have more graphical elements on the dashboard to make it easier to understand."
"The solution could have a bit more functionality."
"There are some issues with conversion and user roles when upgrading to Cyberoam."
"We'd always like the solution to be a bit less in terms of cost."
Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 113 reviews while Sophos XGS is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 62 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate-VM is rated 8.4, while Sophos XGS is rated 7.8. 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 XGS writes "Easy to use, simple to learn, and offers great reporting". Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Fortinet FortiOS, OPNsense and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Sophos XGS is most compared with Sophos XG, OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, WatchGuard Firebox and Sangfor NGAF. See our Fortinet FortiGate-VM vs. Sophos XGS report.
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