We performed a comparison between Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] and Sophos Cyberoam UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"The ability to set up remote systems is the most valuable feature."
"It is a good source for firewall protection."
"It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"It has improved our security capabilities."
"The FortiGate controls the user's activities and maximizes my bandwidth use overall."
"The product offers very good security."
"Unified Threat Management (UTM) features."
"It safeguards against cyber attacks."
"The filtering was very good."
"The databases and its signatures are its most important features."
"The UTM platform has been the most valuable."
"It provides visibility and drives organizational security."
"The most outstanding feature is being able to centralize each of the functions in a single device."
"The solution is very robust."
"The most valuable feature for us was to implement negligent functionality, to direct functionality to viewer control and application control so we could disconnect, and at the same time, we installed checkpoints. We disconnected our proxy."
"The solution is excellent for web and application filtering and remote access with the VPN."
"I'm more inclined towards the conventional firewall. So for me, I'm more geared towards the standard firewall type functionalities as well as the web application firewall because that seems to work fine."
"We have never had to restart a firewall. The firewalls have all worked perfectly fine."
"The main features I have found best are the load balancer and ease of use."
"The performance has been good overall."
"The solution is easy to use."
"In terms of features and user-friendliness, the solution is good. It’s very stable. The solution is scalable. In Sophos Cyberoam UTM, the most valuable features are web and application filtering, routing functionalities, and VPN. It has helped us manage the bandwidth."
"SD-WAN and IPSec features are valuable to me."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"There are some cloud-based features that could be much more flexible than they currently are."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"The reports are very basic."
"The solution lacks multi-language support."
"Its reporting capabilities can be improved. It should have some out-of-the-box reporting capabilities and some degree of customization. The basic reporting that it currently has is not sufficient to create more usable reports. It needs some sort of out-of-the-box reporting. They try to make customers purchase FortiAnalyzer for this kind of reporting, which is an additional cost. Other firewall vendors, such as SonicWall and Sophos, provide this sort of reporting without any additional cost."
"The cloud features can be improved."
"Specifically on the user experience, sometimes the set up of things, such as the VPN SSL, takes a lot of time to load and a lot of time to get up and running on every session."
"What has been the issue of firewalls is they ask me for policies and content filtering application control and all these features that are now part of Harmony."
"I am not able to see a demo."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"Technical support was very bad because the supplier who sold it to us, wasn't very supportive, and he wouldn't giving us direct links to the OEM."
"The interface needs improvement."
"While the technical support is good, the Indian level technical support could use an upgrade."
"Some features that could be improved are advanced threat protection, sandboxing, and vulnerability management."
"I would like to see improvements in the development of reports. The process needs to be made simple."
"Sophos VPN connectivity could be improved, as it can be lengthy, and users take longer to connect"
"I have problems with the email filtering. Emails pass through without any filtering affecting them. When I get back to them and tell them this is the issue, they check everything and say it is not in their database signature and they have to update it. But you know, by that time, my user has already opened it."
"The solution had a feature to import users from a CSV file. However, the latest version does not have that option."
"VPN configuration is not very swift."
"It should have a better VPN client. We decided to find something different than Cyberoam because of the VPN client software. It would be nice to have a user interface not only in English but also in different languages."
"Needs a mail alert/notification when the device loses any of its connections, during ISP redundancy implementation."
"The solution's pricing could be a problem for some small businesses."
Earn 20 points
Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 19 reviews while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews. Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] is rated 8.2, while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] writes "Great firewalls, VPN, and Intrusion prevention capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Cyberoam UTM writes "Stable and has a straightforward setup; reporting is fast and easy". Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos UTM, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Sophos XG.
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