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 most valuable features are the possibility of having one fabric for switching on security."
"It is easy to manage, and it doesn't need much knowledge from the team. It is a stable device, and there are many features that are included out of the box."
"Centralized monitoring, policy management, and virtualized appliances allow us to take control over our public and private infrastructure."
"The signature database and zero-day detection are Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features."
"I appreciate FortiGate's flexibility, which allows for centralized management through FortiManager."
"The security fabric is excellent."
"It has improved our security capabilities."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is the simple configuration."
"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."
"The most outstanding feature is being able to centralize each of the functions in a single device."
"It safeguards against cyber attacks."
"The filtering was very good."
"It provides visibility and drives organizational security."
"The UTM platform has been the most valuable."
"The databases and its signatures are its most important features."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is the SD-WAN gateway."
"In some circumstances, the malware functionality is the most important feature, and in other cases, some other features."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"The tool is stable."
"Its portal is user-friendly. I am able to manage the user data and access control through this device."
"The best feature is the flexibility the product offers, in terms of remote access. What we had before was a decentralized mechanism in our organization, but after having this product we were able to get the remote locations into the same LAN. We were able to control the bandwidth and were able to take virtual access of those machines and give them the support, as and when required."
"You can geofence yourself if there is an incoming attack or a continuous ping from a company outside your country."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM is used for perimeter security, web filtering, intrusion prevention and as a VPN."
"Currently, FortiGate is providing SSL VPN. But they're missing some features that are available in Palo Alto's SSL VPN."
"Fortigate's hardware capacities could be improved."
"The support costs and licensing are sometimes so expensive."
"The user interface could be improved."
"The captive portal could be improved."
"It would be ideal if they had some sort of GUI interface for troubleshooting and diagnostics."
"Lacks training for new features."
"The solution lacks multi-language support."
"While the technical support is good, the Indian level technical support could use an upgrade."
"I am not able to see a demo."
"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 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."
"As we don't have a representative of Check Point in Mozambique, this makes it very difficult when we have some issues to resolve."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"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."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could improve by adding VPN site-to-site capabilities. The correct version does not work with Microsoft Azure Cloud."
"The setup is a bit complex, so we needed help from a consultant."
"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."
"I don't know whether this will be included in an upgrade, but I would like to get the user utility, like seeing where the users are using more of the data."
"The product had a hang issue. We needed to reboot, recreate the image, and reconfigure the previous image because the product hanged frequently."
"Smaller CR15 units don’t have a hard disc or built in IView software. These units could do with that feature."
"The blocking needs to be improved."
"The solution had a feature to import users from a CSV file. However, the latest version does not have that option."
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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