We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW 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."Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"I like Fortinet's cloud management. It allows me to manage all my devices in different branches for three cloud accounts. Even though I use on-prem devices, I can manage everything on the cloud."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the analytics."
"The most important feature, normally for small business customers, is link load balancing."
"There are lots of features and most of them are deployed for internet security. Users are protected if they accidentally go to some malicious sites."
"The most valuable feature is the FortiManager for centralized management."
"Fortigate is very scalable to serve our customers' needs. We have scaled already from fifty to more than a hundred instances of Fortinet FortiGate. Around 20 staff are required for deployment and maintenance, mostly engineers."
"Check Point NGFW has helped the company in the prevention of cyber attacks that could affect operations and slow down production."
"The scalability is very good."
"The detection rate for any cyberattacks/suspicious activity is very high (more than 90%)."
"We never had an outage of the appliances or the consoles. Stability is very strong. I never had a problem related to stability."
"The documentation is simple to understand and is easily available."
"It is easy to control from the central management system. For example, if we have 10 firewalls, and we want to push that same configuration among them, we can use this solution's central management system to do that simultaneously. So, there is time saving in that way. The time savings does depend on the situation. For example, if I am running half an hour of work on each firewall, that will take around 300 minutes. However, if I do this work from the central management system, then it will only take 30 minutes to push the same configuration to those same 10 devices."
"My customers cite performance and ease of configuration as two of the solution's most valuable features."
"As with any firewall, IPSEC VPN is the critical functionality. Not every organization has the budget to implement MPLS or SD-WAN, which makes IPSEC the go-to for site-to-site connectivity."
"Sophos XGS' most valuable features are protection and intrusion prevention detection."
"We are happy and satisfied with all the features."
"The initial setup is very simple."
"The VPN is the best feature."
"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 is a scalable solution."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It's easy to deploy and connect."
"We would like to see a better training platform implemented."
"The firmware needs improvement because there are bugs when a new release comes through. Sometimes, the configuration changes, and it's a bit harder to see where the fail is. The first time that you have the firmware, it tends to have some issues, and it's better to wait a bit to update the equipment."
"The routing capability on the FortiGate devices has room for improvement."
"FortiOS is not simple."
"It should come integrated or have its own type of network monitor tool in a module. There should just be one package, and you are good to go."
"Quality control on their firmware versions needs improvement. When they introduce new firmware, there tend to be bugs."
"It should provide better visibility over the network and more information in the form of reports for the end users. Its installation should also be easier."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"The virtual environment is not stable at all. We have some customers who are using the virtual environment feature, and sometimes it crashes. We have many tickets open and the response is not as good as expected. We have to wait months for a resolution."
"While not being cheap, their pricing models are competitive. In the pricing structure, however, they need improvement."
"Check Point should add additional management choices."
"No product is perfect and there is always room for improvement."
"Check Point's support, at all levels, needs a complete overhaul."
"Check Point should quickly update and expand its application database to have what Palo Alto has."
"The only thing which I think should be improved is that training should be increased. In my position I also interview potential employees and I haven't found many people in the market, nowadays, who are familiar with the Check Point firewall. They are more familiar with Palo Alto and Cisco ASA and they are more comfortable with them."
"Timely updates to security databases, firmware, and software are crucial for addressing new threats."
"The configurations can be a bit complex."
"Reporting could be improved. The structure could be better because most of the reports aren't detailed."
"Level one technical support is not good at all and needs to be improved."
"The reporting could be better."
"I would like to see a history of the monthly bandwidth utilization, the bandwidth consumption for a period of time."
"We'd always like the solution to be a bit less in terms of cost."
"We'd like an interface that can monitor everything."
"Sophos XGS would benefit from further development in the SD-WAN area."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 275 reviews while Sophos XGS is ranked 17th in Firewalls with 58 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Sophos XGS is rated 8.0. 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 XGS writes "Easy to use, simple to learn, and offers great reporting". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and SonicWall NSa, whereas Sophos XGS is most compared with Sophos XG, OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, WatchGuard Firebox and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Check Point NGFW vs. Sophos XGS report.
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