We performed a comparison between Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] and Sophos Cyberoam UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Fortinet offers the latest versions to cater to the needs of enterprises."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is Quota."
"The simplicity of the configuration and the stability of the product are most valuable. The VPN concentrator is very useful."
"The web filtering facility and application control are the most valuable features from the point of view of our clients. The VPN feature is also quite popular amongst our clients. Two-factor authentication is one of the good features in Fortinet. These features are important for the current scenario of security. Security has become a necessity nowadays. With cyber-attacks becoming more common, protecting an organization's data is one of the major tasks. It is also very stable and scalable, and it is very straightforward to configure. Their technical support is also good."
"Its performance in fulfilling our requirements has been satisfactory."
"Layer-3 firewall and routing are the most valuable features."
"This is an easy solution to deploy."
"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 very robust."
"We can create a domain to separate and segregate some functions, some services."
"It provides visibility and drives organizational security."
"The databases and its signatures are its most important features."
"It safeguards against cyber attacks."
"The filtering was very good."
"The UTM platform has been the most valuable."
"Good user interface."
"There are plenty of features available, such as Full Guard and WAN."
"The product is a simple and user-friendly UTM that can handle accounting, reporting, firewall, IPS, and antivirus for industries."
"The reporting features are very good."
"Bandwidth Management and aggregation. It is valuable for combining two ISPs. Switching to a secondary/redundant ISP is thus seamless, in the event that the primary ISP goes down. The Bandwidth Management is also valuable for limiting heavy downloaders that may impact negatively on the experience of other users."
"The performance has been good overall."
"We have never had to restart a firewall. The firewalls have all worked perfectly fine."
"Technical support is excellent."
"It should be more stable. There should be full integration within Fortinet products themselves as well as with other third-party products. Especially when you're not dealing with SIEM and the correlation of the security box, we want Fortinet to be able to share that information with as many other products as it can."
"If they had better integration with security products, such as Cisco ISE or Rapid Threat Containment, then it would be an improvement."
"The firewall engine is not so strong as of now, in my opinion... My second concern is that, while they have Zero-day vulnerability and anti-malware features, the threat engine needs to be strengthened, its efficiency can be increased."
"Cisco Meraki products are rising very quickly in the cloud and the connected era. Meraki products offer much better ROI, upgradability, and manageability."
"The feature which gives us a lot of pain is ASIC architecture."
"Currently, FortiGate is providing SSL VPN. But they're missing some features that are available in Palo Alto's SSL VPN."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"There are a lot of bugs I have found in the solution and it is difficult to upgrade. These areas need improvement."
"The interface needs improvement."
"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."
"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."
"Some features that could be improved are advanced threat protection, sandboxing, and vulnerability management."
"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."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"While the technical support is good, the Indian level technical support could use an upgrade."
"I am not able to see a demo."
"I would like to see real-time alerts on traffic insights."
"Needs a mail alert/notification when the device loses any of its connections, during ISP redundancy implementation."
"Sophos VPN connectivity could be improved, as it can be lengthy, and users take longer to connect"
"There needs to be more documentation that users can access to help them understand the solution or troubleshoot as necessary."
"The VPN needs to be improved."
"It should have better VPN protection. Some of the VPN applications are not blocked by this firewall. Some VPNs are able to get through this firewall, which is why I am planning to replace this firewall with a good one in the near future."
"The product strategy of the manufacturer is strange. I don't understand what they are doing in that regard."
"The technical support response time could be faster."
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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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