We performed a comparison between Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] and Sophos Cyberoam UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"I like that they have given me a solution at a fair price."
"Advanced routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP, PBR). It gives you a seamless and simple integration into a large network."
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"We can create a domain to separate and segregate some functions, some services."
"The filtering was very good."
"The databases and its signatures are its most important features."
"It provides visibility and drives organizational security."
"The UTM platform has been the most valuable."
"The solution is very robust."
"It safeguards against cyber attacks."
"The most outstanding feature is being able to centralize each of the functions in a single device."
"The main features I have found best are the load balancer and ease of use."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is the SD-WAN gateway."
"Web application filtering eases internet access control."
"The most valuable feature is the IPSec forwarding."
"Our customers find it economical and offers good security. These two features are key. Ease of installation and implementation are also key factors."
"Web Filtering and Application Filtering saves a lot of my bandwidth and improves the user's productivity."
"The solution has good load balancers."
"Technical support is excellent."
"FortiOS is not simple."
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"Some of the features in the graphical user interface do not work, which requires that we used the command-line-interface."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a firewall solution and once it's deployed, you can rest assured that your system is secure."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"Its filtering is sometimes too precise or strict. We sometimes have to bypass and authorize some of the sites, but they get blocked. We know that they are trusted sites, but they are blocked, and we don't know why."
"The cloud management and automation capability could be improved."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Some features that could be improved are advanced threat protection, sandboxing, and vulnerability management."
"I am not able to see a demo."
"The interface needs improvement."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"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 product strategy of the manufacturer is strange. I don't understand what they are doing in that regard."
"The implementation policy needs improvment."
"It should have a better VPN client. We decided to find something different than Cyberoam because of the VPN client software. It would be nice to have a user interface not only in English but also in different languages."
"The product fails to provide proper reports, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The data support response time should be improved."
"The VPN needs to be improved."
"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."
"It is not a scalable product. This is because if you want to increase the capacity of the solution, then you have to change the device."
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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