We performed a comparison between Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] and Sophos Cyberoam UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"It's very fast and easy to configure."
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"The solution is very robust."
"The filtering was very good."
"It provides visibility and drives organizational security."
"It safeguards against cyber attacks."
"The UTM platform has been the most valuable."
"Firewalls help us a lot in controlling traffic on our network and preventing unauthorized access."
"We can create a domain to separate and segregate some functions, some services."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The solution's web filtering is an important feature for us in our company."
"It is a VPN that serves all your needs as an application firewall."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is a very strong product with good support."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM is used for perimeter security, web filtering, intrusion prevention and as a VPN."
"For a small-medium enterprise this solution is easy to manage and operate."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is the SD-WAN gateway."
"Web and content filtering are valuable in preventing people from abusing the network and pushing up the bandwidth price."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"The cloud management and automation capability could be improved."
"The solution needs to improve its integration with cybersecurity."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"The pricing could be a bit better, especially when you consider how they have the most basic offering priced."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"The way everything is set up could be easier. Currently, people need a lot of experience and knowledge to administer it and to link it to devices."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"Some features that could be improved are advanced threat protection, sandboxing, and vulnerability management."
"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."
"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."
"While the technical support is good, the Indian level technical support could use an upgrade."
"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."
"I had an issue when I was trying to stop a user from using too much bandwidth while I was using Azure, I was not able to stop them."
"In my experience the solution can be easier to configure with more documentation, we need more training."
"Cyberoam configuration is done through the browser, which is one of the places that viruses spread."
"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 policy is a bit too vague."
"I would like to see improvements in the development of reports. The process needs to be made simple."
"The solution had a feature to import users from a CSV file. However, the latest version does not have that option."
"Sometimes, during part of the configuration, if you don't have a lot of technical knowledge, then you may struggle a bit to configure it."
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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