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."It has improved our security capabilities."
"The SD-WAN is the most valuable feature."
"The most important feature, normally for small business customers, is link load balancing."
"Their interface is very easy to use, it is without bugs."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"The IPsec tunnels are very easily created, and quite interoperable with devices from other vendors."
"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."
"Firewalls help us a lot in controlling traffic on our network and preventing unauthorized access."
"The solution is very robust."
"The UTM platform has been the most valuable."
"We can create a domain to separate and segregate some functions, some services."
"It safeguards against cyber attacks."
"The databases and its signatures are its most important features."
"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 firewall feature has different branches, such as extended firewalls."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is the SD-WAN gateway."
"The most valuable features are the firewall section, the VPN, and how you control live users."
"The security capabilities are okay."
"Having a firewall solution with a data quota is very important when the bandwidth is limited, which really distinguishes it from other products."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is a very strong product with good support."
"User and network policies to be managed on a single screen with powerful filtering and search options."
"The main features I have found best are the load balancer and ease of use."
"Technical support for this solution can be improved."
"A lack of integration between our data centers."
"I think there could be more QoS features"
"The UTM filtering needs improvement."
"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."
"Its price could be better."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"I would suggest that Fortinet add sandboxing to their solution."
"The solution could be improved if there was a better way to report. The reporting functionality is not really good. Even though it's not the major function. Maybe adding a way to make a custom report."
"I am not able to see a demo."
"The interface needs improvement."
"Some features that could be improved are advanced threat protection, sandboxing, and vulnerability management."
"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."
"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."
"While the technical support is good, the Indian level technical support could use an upgrade."
"As we don't have a representative of Check Point in Mozambique, this makes it very difficult when we have some issues to resolve."
"Cyberoam configuration is done through the browser, which is one of the places that viruses spread."
"The reporting part could be more user-friendly for troubleshooting and identifying network issues. It should be more easy for a normal user to identify the problem in their network."
"Sometimes, during part of the configuration, if you don't have a lot of technical knowledge, then you may struggle a bit to configure it."
"I had an issue when I was trying to stop a user from using too much bandwidth while I was using Azure, I was not able to stop them."
"While the security features are excellent, they could be improved."
"Hence, it needs to be easier to configure rules using the solution."
"I would like to see a better content management pack and also the website searching should be better."
"Technical support could be faster."
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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