We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW 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 is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"It is useful for protecting and segregating the internal networks from the internet. Most of our customers also use the FortiGate client to connect to their offices by using the VPN client, and of course, they usually activate the antivirus, deep inspection, and intrusion prevention services. They are also using it for web filtering and implementing various policies dealing with forwardings, NAT, etc."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is security. They are known for efficiency and are on the top of Gartner Quadrant reviews. Fortinet FortiGate has an easy-to-use platform with a good graphical interface. The configuration is simple and the solution provides an overall good layer of security."
"The reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"The payment function for applications is good."
"The interface is very good."
"The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtering testing applications, web filtering, and the new VPN."
"Customers want to load balance more than eight lines or six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this."
"If you want to share traffic loads to both cluster members you can use the active-active feature, if you don't want to share traffic loads you can prefer active standby."
"While not being cheap, their pricing models are competitive."
"We do not have any problems with stability."
"Its most significant strength lies in its superior threat detection engines."
"I have not had an infected machine behind the firewall since I first installed and started using NGFW."
"By deploying Check Point, it has made it easier to manage everything from a single interface. The management dashboard and policies are on its single pane of glass."
"The most valuable feature is the IPsec VPN."
"The Threat Management feature makes it very easy to detect the vulnerabilities and other factors. We can make new policy according to it. Policy creation is very simple in Check Point. Because the logs are very good in Check Point Firewall, this reduces our work with the reports that we are getting from the Threat Management. It is very convenient for us to use the reports to make new policies for security and other things."
"It helped to connect our satellite offices to the main Amazon infrastructure in a circular way."
"Technical support is very responsive."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the efficiency and mail filtering module."
"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 solution is scalable."
"Sophos integrates seamlessly, and we don't even feel it is running in the background."
"The product is extremely intuitive."
"Brings greater visibility into the network traffic coming inside and passing away from the company."
"Some of the filtering is not robust, you can escape it with a VPN. Some of the users bypass some of the filters. It catches some but it also misses some, that area could be improved. It's functioning reasonably but there's room for improvement in that area."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the protection, it did not prevent us from being attacked. Additionally, Fortinet FortiGate could provide more features for WAF devices. I should not have to purchase two solutions, it would be a benefit to combine these features into one solution."
"I would like Fortinet to add more automation to FortiGate."
"The ease of use could be improved."
"Usually, we sell the bundle with the UTM or threat management piece with IPS, IDS. Other providers, such as Palo Alto, are ahead in terms of safe functionality. So, for me, delivering truly safe service is probably something that still needs to be improved."
"MTBF: Hardware failure is more common when compared to SonicWall or Cisco ASA."
"The support system could be improved."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"Check Point NGFW needs to run marketing events. They have also to set up a support center in India."
"It would be nice if there is a mobile-friendly console for our techs."
"Several security modules are based on HTTPS inspection, losing a relevant security capability if you don't implement it in your network."
"It's my understanding that the initial setup is a bit complex. There's a bit of a learning curve if you're trying to set it up for the first time and you aren't familiar with the product."
"The perimeter antivirus can be improved. It's not as good as other leaders."
"I would like the user interface to be more user-friendly. I want the UI to be easier to use than Check Point's competitors."
"It could greatly improve our customer experience by centralizing management."
"The training for Check Point Firewall should increase, including the number of Training Centers. For most new people in our organization, we have to provide them training from our end, as they are not trained in Check Point Firewalls. So, we have to do the training, from our point of view, to make our engineers able to use Check Point Firewalls. However, with other firewalls, they are already trained, so we are not require to provide them training. This could be improved by the Check Point Community."
"Stay away from the wireless models, since you cannot put them in HA. They start to give you some weird issues once you start getting into multiple SSIDs and networks."
"They could use more SSL VPN support."
"We didn’t find any issues but I know there have been some in the last few years."
"The technical support only communicates via email. I would prefer to communicate directly with someone."
"We'd like to see them offer their services on mobile devices like tablets. I'm not sure if that's an option or not."
"The only time we face a problem or issues is when we place a ticket. We have found that response is very slow."
"This product could use some improvement with web filtering. It takes a lot of time and effort to set up and maintain."
"The support could be better."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 275 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Check Point NGFW writes "Good antivirus protection and URL filtering with very good user identification capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Azure Firewall, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Check Point NGFW vs. Sophos UTM report.
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