We performed a comparison between Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] and Sophos Cyberoam UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The features that we have found most valuable are the SSL VPN and the User Portal."
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"Good anti-malware and web filtering features."
"Their reliability and their policy of pre-shipping replacements when a unit has failed."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The filtering was very good."
"It safeguards against cyber attacks."
"It provides visibility and drives organizational security."
"The UTM platform has been the most valuable."
"We can create a domain to separate and segregate some functions, some services."
"The databases and its signatures are its most important features."
"The solution is very robust."
"The most outstanding feature is being able to centralize each of the functions in a single device."
"Content filtering, as this enables me to control that which employees can view at different time quotas."
"Web Filtering and Application Filtering saves a lot of my bandwidth and improves the user's productivity."
"The reporting features are very good."
"I find Sophos Cyberoam UTM very good. I like the feature of being able to block off Mac IDs that host users. For example, you have a Mac or Windows laptop and you created a hotspot. Other devices like mobiles and tablets e.g. iPads connected to that hotspot. We can block those devices that connected to the hotspot we created, only through Sophos. It's a good feature we didn't find in other UTMs."
"I like the SSL VPN connection. Cyberoam works well for controlling users and authenticating their connection to the internet."
"In some circumstances, the malware functionality is the most important feature, and in other cases, some other features."
"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."
"The performance has been good overall."
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"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"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."
"I would like to see improvements with the antivirus and IPS as they are not working properly all the time."
"The room for improvement is about the global delivery time period. Usually I need to wait for almost one month to deliver it overseas. So if you can shorten the deliver time it'd be great."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"Currently, without the additional reporting module, we only have access to basic reporting."
"The platform's interface could improve."
"The interface needs improvement."
"I am not able to see a demo."
"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 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."
"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."
"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."
"In my experience the solution can be easier to configure with more documentation, we need more training."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM has room for improvement in specific rules-based objects and redesign. The solution also needs to improve in adding rules and policies, including renewing and finding policies."
"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."
"I would like to see real-time alerts on traffic insights."
"Cyberoam configuration is done through the browser, which is one of the places that viruses spread."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could improve by adding VPN site-to-site capabilities. The correct version does not work with Microsoft Azure Cloud."
"The product had a hang issue. We needed to reboot, recreate the image, and reconfigure the previous image because the product hanged frequently."
"The implementation policy needs improvment."
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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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