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."FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"The most important features with FortiGate are the web filter and application controls. We can control our internet usage and use the web filter for application purposes."
"The main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"The IPsec tunnels are very easily created, and quite interoperable with devices from other vendors."
"The most valuable features are simplicity, management, and that it's constantly evolving."
"It's super reliable. I don't think I've ever had a reliability issue with it."
"Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable."
"The databases and its signatures are its most important features."
"It provides visibility and drives organizational security."
"The filtering was very good."
"The most outstanding feature is being able to centralize each of the functions in a single device."
"Firewalls help us a lot in controlling traffic on our network and preventing unauthorized access."
"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 UTM platform has been the most valuable."
"You can geofence yourself if there is an incoming attack or a continuous ping from a company outside your country."
"The most valuable feature is the solution is easy to configure for users."
"It is a VPN that serves all your needs as an application firewall."
"The most valuable feature is the IPSec forwarding."
"All in one UTM appliance."
"User and network policies to be managed on a single screen with powerful filtering and search options."
"The solution is excellent for web and application filtering and remote access with the VPN."
"Good user interface."
"Fortinet should focus on enhancing the capabilities of FortiGate by consolidating its various products, such as FortiGate Cloud, FortiManager, and FortiAnalyzer."
"Fortinet FortiGate can improve by integrating the web application firewall and the DDoS protection part of the solution. Having a WAF feature, web application firewall, and proxy together would be a good benefit."
"The Wi-Fi controller needs a lot of improvement."
"The solution needs to improve its integration with cybersecurity."
"Sometimes you do need to know some CLI commands, so it's a bit harder for technicians or new people that don't know it."
"The main aspect of FortiGate that could be improved is load balancing. Our management team does not want to buy another appliance for only load balancing."
"The user interface could be improved to make it less confusing and easier to set up."
"In some cases, its initial setup could be hard for customers."
"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 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."
"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."
"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."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"The interface needs improvement."
"I would like to see real-time alerts on traffic insights."
"The product needs to improve its pricing."
"There is a lot or room for improvement, because it is still not a fourth or fifth generation firewall. It lacks security features."
"There needs to be more documentation that users can access to help them understand the solution or troubleshoot as necessary."
"Hence, it needs to be easier to configure rules using the solution."
"Sometimes, users are timed out intermittently."
"There are some issues with logs and report limitations."
"Sophos VPN connectivity could be improved, as it can be lengthy, and users take longer to connect"
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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