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."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."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"The features that we have found most valuable are the SSL VPN and the User Portal."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"The scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the SD-WAN and their IP4 policy."
"There is an easy process for configuring it, and it is straightforward to implement the device from scratch."
"The simplicity of the configuration and the stability of the product are most valuable. The VPN concentrator is very useful."
"The filtering was very good."
"It safeguards against cyber attacks."
"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 most outstanding feature is being able to centralize each of the functions in a single device."
"We can create a domain to separate and segregate some functions, some services."
"It provides visibility and drives organizational security."
"The solution is very robust."
"Firewalls help us a lot in controlling traffic on our network and preventing unauthorized access."
"You can geofence yourself if there is an incoming attack or a continuous ping from a company outside your country."
"The solution is easy to integrate."
"I believe it's the advanced security software that offers SMPP protection for the agent."
"The solution's web filtering is an important feature for us in our company."
"Web application filtering eases internet access control."
"In some circumstances, the malware functionality is the most important feature, and in other cases, some other features."
"It has been working fine. You just turn it on, and it works."
"Web Filtering and Application Filtering saves a lot of my bandwidth and improves the user's productivity."
"One of the problems I was having was with user mapping, and it is an issue for which I have escalated tickets with Fortinet support."
"We would like to see a better training platform implemented."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"The cloud management and automation capability could be improved."
"The solution's framework needs to be frequently updated in order to have a stable solution."
"It is very expensive, and their support is not very good. I hope that their technical support will be better in the future."
"Fortinet currently has many products bundled with FortiGate including the basic firewall and load balancer, and I think that that they need to have separate product portfolios for each of these specialized services."
"There could be more integration between the logging and analytical platforms to make it more seamless and integrated."
"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."
"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."
"Some features that could be improved are advanced threat protection, sandboxing, and vulnerability management."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"While the technical support is good, the Indian level technical support could use an upgrade."
"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."
"I am not able to see a demo."
"As we don't have a representative of Check Point in Mozambique, this makes it very difficult when we have some issues to resolve."
"Needs a mail alert/notification when the device loses any of its connections, during ISP redundancy implementation."
"What needs improvement in Sophos Cyberoam UTM is openness in the competition among Sophos partners or any other Sophos product. Another area for improvement in the solution is pricing. It could be cheaper."
"We have had some issues with technical support, which is an area that needs improvement."
"Once in a while, an unwanted email will slip in. You have to set your parameters to avoid that happening, but once in a while, an email has slipped past firewall. Once you update the firmware, you notice that it doesn't happen. If an email slips in, I get a little bit worried. I do get the report, but you just don't want that situation happening in the first place."
"Technical support could be faster."
"The VPN is an area that can be improved."
"There is a lot or room for improvement, because it is still not a fourth or fifth generation firewall. It lacks security features."
"Cyberoam configuration is done through the browser, which is one of the places that viruses spread."
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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