We performed a comparison between Hillstone T-Series 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."The solution can scale well."
"The UTM feature is quite good. FortiAP is easy to deploy because both Fortigate and FortiAP are under the same brand. Otherwise, you need to do more work on the configuration."
"I like several features that this product has, such as antivirus and internet navigation inspection. It is also simple to use."
"I appreciate FortiGate's flexibility, which allows for centralized management through FortiManager."
"It's very fast and easy to configure."
"It's super reliable. I don't think I've ever had a reliability issue with it."
"The network security and cloud security are most valuable."
"The most useful functionality of Fortinet FortiGate is the user interface, multiple engines, and their cloud with the latest integrations. Additionally, the Security Fabric tool is very good."
"It has been stable so far."
"We installed Hillstone T-Series after a ransomware attack. The dashboard and user interface are very good."
"The only firewall able to monitor traffic from a CCTV network. Can detect unauthorized devices plugged into the network, which standard firewalls can't do."
"It is not an easy task to protect your web servers from the big bad internet. The Web Server Protection in this solution does it elegantly and, if configured correctly, even hides the server's base system from prying eyes."
"It improved bandwidth utilization and provided link load balancing features for internet and intranet lease lines."
"Sophos UTM's best feature is SIM in the cloud, which combines the gateway solution and endpoint solution to send telemetry data to the cloud and provides full contact visibility regarding security."
"They are all good, but most-used are Network Protection and Web Filtering."
"Stability-wise, I rate this solution a ten out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate this solution a ten out of ten."
"So far, the solution has been problem-free."
"Good basic firewall functions with advanced firewall scanning."
"This is a very stable product."
"The product does need better support in the cloud environment. It's not exactly cloud-native right now."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"The license renewal process, annual renewal price, and the web application firewall features should be improved."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"One area for improvement is the performance on bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting."
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"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."
"Another loophole with Hillstone T-Series is that when we connect through WiFi and turn our hot spot on, all who connect through the hotspot get all the functions, and the security does not work."
"Licensing is not cheap."
"They have a very good technical support team, but I think there are some communication issues due to language differences."
"Sophos UTM could be simplified, and they can improve on the many other features, like SD-WAN and load balancing. Sophos UTM is missing a few features that their competitors have. For example, if you have multiple branches you would like to connect, the load balancing features aren't available on multilink. If we create a VPM for multiple LAN links, we cannot load balance the traffic."
"There is absolutely no support when using AWS. If you buy the on-premise Sophos solution, you get support."
"I think that additional metrics features are needed to be able to monitor other areas or to monitor as much as you can, at a fine-grain resolution."
"The initial setup was straightforward. The full deployment takes approximately two days which could be simplified to reduce the time. The major part of the process is the configuration and the policy setup."
"Monitoring and reporting are areas that need improvement."
"The UI can be cumbersome and, sometimes, features are not where you think they should be."
"The integration capabilities could be better."
"Needs to improve the certificate management (ex. Let's Encrypt support)."
Hillstone T-Series is ranked 36th in Firewalls with 3 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 3rd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Hillstone T-Series is rated 7.4, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Hillstone T-Series writes "Is stable and has a user-friendly dashboard and a good interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Hillstone T-Series is most compared with Sangfor NGAF and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Hillstone T-Series vs. Sophos UTM report.
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