We performed a comparison between Netgate pfSense 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."Fortinet FortiGate is scalable for our users. Right now, we have almost 70 users. We do not have any plan to increase our usage of FortiGate. For maintaining the firewall solution, one staff member is enough."
"Mainly the FortiGate reporting system is very good. It guides us through all the expectations of security. Fortinet provides us all that we need for security. Also, Fortinet FortiGate is a next-generation firewall. It is much more advanced than others."
"Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"The security fabric is excellent."
"The reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"The signature database and zero-day detection are Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and there are several operating systems that can include the hardware capacities. In the newer releases, the resources were more useful because they were included in the operating system."
"Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"We've found the stability to be very good overall."
"There is good documentation with a fantastic community and enterprise support."
"It is a stable solution. It is also easy to install and can be deployed and maintained by one team member."
"Stability has been excellent. We have experienced no issues; it never fails."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It works. I put pfSense in, and it works. I can't think of any trouble I ever had with it. It runs on heat-sensitive appliances. They don't need a fan, so they don't overheat. It is affordable, fast, and very high-speed. It is built on BSD Unix, and it pretty much runs on any Intel processor."
"I like pfSense's reports and how I can control access to the policies on the firewall."
"I mostly like all of it. Whatever we use is valuable."
"The solution is excellent for web and application filtering and remote access with the VPN."
"The main features I have found best are the load balancer and ease of use."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"The solution's web filtering is an important feature for us in our company."
"The security capabilities are okay."
"I found that the best feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is reporting. Its reporting feature is excellent, fast, and easy to prep and launch."
"SD-WAN and IPSec features are valuable to me."
"I believe it's the advanced security software that offers SMPP protection for the agent."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having a frequent ask questions(FAQ) area for people to receive quick answers to popular questions. Additionally, it would be beneficial to have an SMS notification feature. For example, if you cannot access your email you could receive an SMS message."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"We would like to see a better training platform implemented."
"It would be a benefit if Fortinet would release a one-stop solution that is better integrated with other products and an automated emergency response system."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"The renewal price and the availability could be improved."
"Sometimes you do need to know some CLI commands, so it's a bit harder for technicians or new people that don't know it."
"The UTM filtering needs improvement."
"I tried pfSense, and it has a big issue with file system consistency, and this is what drove me to OPNsense. The file system stability is quite a big issue for us. We have a lot of outages related to power issues, and OPNsense is much more stable on this side."
"For the third-party packages, I'd rather have it built-in, like a core feature of pfSense, part of the core model."
"The GUI could use more “bells and whistles”. It's got plenty of info for a Sysadmin but some people like shiny things."
"A way to clean squid cache from the GUI."
"The interface is not very shiny and attractive."
"If you want to take advantage of all of the solution's options, you need to have a bit of a technical background. It's not for a layperson."
"ClamAV AntiVirus can cause some crashes. That service should be improved."
"It was difficult to configure our web printer through the solution. This process could be easier. Additionally, integration with SD-WAN solution."
"The price is obviously a more sensitive area to focus on."
"I had an issue when I was trying to stop a user from using too much bandwidth while I was using Azure, I was not able to stop them."
"While the security features are excellent, they could be improved."
"The solution is at its end of life and some of the appliances are finishing."
"We have had some issues with technical support, which is an area that needs improvement."
"The Traffic Discovery feature should allow administrators to disconnect unnecessary live connections."
"The implementation policy needs improvment."
"The VPN is an area that can be improved."
Netgate pfSense is ranked 1st in Firewalls with 128 reviews while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 9th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews. Netgate pfSense is rated 8.6, while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Netgate pfSense writes "User-friendly, easy to manage the firewall, rule-wise and interface-wise". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Cyberoam UTM writes "Stable and has a straightforward setup; reporting is fast and easy". Netgate pfSense is most compared with OPNsense, Sophos XG, KerioControl, Sophos UTM and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos UTM, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Sophos XG and OPNsense. See our Netgate pfSense vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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