We performed a comparison between Sophos UTM 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."Consolidated our network environment at all locations, but mainly at our datacenter."
"I really like the captive portal feature for our guest network. It has nice VLAN features in terms of separating our network. The anti-virus is also good."
"Fortinet FortiGate's ease of management is the most valuable feature."
"The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good."
"It is user friendly, and has all the features you need."
"The pipe filter application is an outstanding feature."
"It is a safe product."
"We purchased Fortinet because of the pricing, its functionality, because it met our requirements, and the total cost of ownership over five years was quite reasonable. In the market, Fortinet is rated quite well."
"It makes it a lot easier for us to maintain things. Prior to it, things were more difficult. This means less time on us. We can focus on other things. The recovery is more in man-hours for us than anything else."
"The product is extremely intuitive."
"The stability, overall, is excellent. I haven't had a problem in the last two years."
"The features that I've known to be most valuable are both the web security features as well as the web firewall capabilities. As a partner of Sophos firewall, we have some clients and they are using Sophos firewall UTM and we are using it as well."
"Scaling out cannot be easier, as there are many migration paths."
"It gives us the ability to manage our firewalls from the cloud and deploy a unified configuration onto them. Other competitors like Meraki have that ability, but they fail to optimize it in the way that Sophos has."
"Installing Sophos UTM is straightforward. The deployment itself doesn't take long, but you have to spend some time planning and waiting for the hardware to be delivered."
"Advanced protection (Sophos Sandstorm) - Protects against crypto viruses in real-time."
"The policies are the greatest feature. They allow us to configure granular control over our network traffic."
"In this solution, the most valuable feature is that it's a security device. Maintaining security is very valuable for us. The other feature that we did not find in other products is that it works well with thin client environments."
"It's easy to use, and the service is good. If anything goes wrong, their support system is very reliable."
"Sophos XGS' most valuable features are protection and intrusion prevention detection."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The solution is stable."
"The product was easy for us to install."
"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."
"It's my understanding that more of the current generation features could be brought in. There could be more integration with EDRs, for example."
"Reporting is limited to providing an external appliance for improving the reporting capabilities of the FortiAnalyzer. It does not offer a central management and is also sold separably as an appliance."
"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 sniffing packets or packet captures, can be simplified and improved because it's a little confusing."
"I would like to see improvements with the antivirus and IPS as they are not working properly all the time."
"The improvement is related to logs. Instead of the CLI, we should be able to have more insights into the logs of the firewall in the GUI."
"It needs to improve its ISP load balancing."
"The cloud management and automation capability could be improved."
"Updates come out agonizingly slowly, a trickle."
"I am going to flat out say technical support is terrible. Being a Platinum level customer, I am not happy with the support."
"Sophos UTM's firewall is a bit weak, and some of its features lack depth compared to other products like F5."
"There is still room for improvement in wireless protection. I don't mean their WiFi device is bad, but there are still things to improve on, such as WiFi roaming."
"The interface configuration could be improved."
"The solution is not scalable."
"In Sophos UTM there is always a problem with the routing tables. If you want to see the routing table, you have to use the UI. You can't do it via a web browser. The routing table is better in Fortinet."
"We need to speed up the support."
"I recommend Sophos increase the user capacity of the firewall by 1.5 times. For example, say the firewall can accommodate 1,000 users now, then it should handle a load of 1,500 users."
"The configurations can be a bit complex."
"It has recently started to suddenly block and crash."
"The VPN capability needs some improvement in Sophos XGS."
"Sophos XGS could be improved by adding a built-in hyper-converged solution."
"The solution could be easier to manage and configure."
"I would like to see a history of the monthly bandwidth utilization, the bandwidth consumption for a period of time."
"Reporting could be improved. The structure could be better because most of the reports aren't detailed."
Sophos UTM is ranked 3rd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews while Sophos XGS is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 62 reviews. Sophos UTM is rated 8.4, while Sophos XGS is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos XGS writes "Easy to use, simple to learn, and offers great reporting". Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Meraki MX, whereas Sophos XGS is most compared with Sophos XG, OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, WatchGuard Firebox and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Sophos UTM vs. Sophos XGS report.
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