We performed a comparison between Azure 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."It is a safe product."
"Initial setup is easy to configure."
"The most important features with FortiGate are the web filter and application controls. We can control our internet usage and use the web filter for application purposes."
"Good performance, stability, and virtual domain ability."
"Some of the key features of the solution is that it has good reporting, you can receive many details from the connection, for example, clients and website information."
"The license management is very valuable. You can get a new license each year, or you can enroll every two to four years. You can get the logs, and you will get the information on the risk in your network and the entire organization. With this information, you can take action on your actives, computers, or devices. You can bring your own device as an SSE."
"What I like the most is the configuration and that it's simple, and straightforward to maintain."
"The most valuable features are the policies, filtering, and configuration."
"Azure Firewall's feature that I have found most valuable is its scalability."
"The solution is very stable. When comparing it to other environments, it's actually quite impressive."
"The solution can autoscale."
"The SIEM that Azure Firewall provides us is very robust."
"Performance and stability are the key features of this product."
"The feature that I have found the most valuable is the control over the network permissions and the network."
"The most valuable feature is the integration into the overall cloud platform."
"The solution should be capable of self-scaling, which is one of the features we like about it."
"The product has helped control bandwidth utilization, as well as enhanced connectivity and security to remote locations."
"Good user interface."
"SD-WAN and IPSec features are valuable to me."
"There are plenty of features available, such as Full Guard and WAN."
"We have never had to restart a firewall. The firewalls have all worked perfectly fine."
"Its portal is user-friendly. I am able to manage the user data and access control through this device."
"The dashboard is very good-looking and offers maximum features. If a customer's website has a problem, we can guide them over the phone because they can easily find the specific option on the dashboard. That's why we suggest buying Sophos."
"We are using it as a security shield. It does not allow access before that in case we have restricted a few things from users, so it helps me in that."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"The main aspect of FortiGate that could be improved is load balancing. Our management team does not want to buy another appliance for only load balancing."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"Currently, without the additional reporting module, we only have access to basic reporting."
"The feature which gives us a lot of pain is ASIC architecture."
"It should have a better pricing plan. It is too expensive. It should also have a more granular view of the attack. I don't have FortiAnalyzer, and it is difficult for me to have a complete view when there is an attack on my server."
"The web-cache feature which was previously on the FortiGate device, but was deleted with the recent upgrade should be returned. It was a very valuable feature for us."
"It claims it does DLP, but the degree and level of controls are very basic."
"For larger enterprises, they need to adjust the scalability."
"The product could be made more customizable."
"The solution should incorporate features similar to competitors like split tunneling."
"It's a little heavy compared to a FortiGate or other firewalls."
"Azure Firewall has limited visibility for IDPS, no TLS inspection, no app ID, no user ID, no content ID, no device ID. There is no antivirus or anti-spyware. Azure Firewall doesn't scan traffic for malware unless it triggers an IDPS signature. There is no sandbox or machine learning functionality, meaning we are not protected from Zero-day threats. There is no DNS security and limited web categories."
"Azure Firewall should have a free trial version for new users so that they can evaluate it before deploying it."
"They can improve the pricing of Azure Firewall."
"Right now, with Azure Firewall, we cannot have a normal inbound traffic flow. For inbound, Microsoft suggests using application gateways, so the options are very limited. I cannot use this firewall as an intermediate firewall because of the limitations, and I cannot point routing to another firewall. So if I want to use back-to-back firewall architecture in my environment, I cannot use Azure Firewall for that type of configuration either."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could improve by adding VPN site-to-site capabilities. The correct version does not work with Microsoft Azure Cloud."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"The implementation policy needs improvment."
"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 policy is a bit too vague."
"We have had some issues with technical support, which is an area that needs improvement."
"There are some issues with logs and report limitations."
"Needs a mail alert/notification when the device loses any of its connections, during ISP redundancy implementation."
Azure Firewall is ranked 21st in Firewalls with 33 reviews while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Azure Firewall writes "Easy to use and configure but could be more robust". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Cyberoam UTM writes "Stable and has a straightforward setup; reporting is fast and easy". Azure Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Check Point NGFW, whereas Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Sophos UTM and SonicWall NSa. See our Azure Firewall vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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