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."I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable."
"The security features that they have are quite good. On top of that, their licensing model is quite nice where they don't charge you anything for the SD-WAN functionality for the firewall."
"The virtual firewall feature is the most valuable. We have around 1,500 firewalls. We did not buy individual hardware, and the virtual firewalls made sense because we don't have to keep on buying the hardware. FortiGate is easier to use as compared to Checkpoint devices. It is user friendly and has a good UI. You don't need much expertise to work on this firewall. You don't need to worry much about DCLA, commands, and things like that."
"The technical support is great."
"It is simple to manage, and there are a lot of functionalities in the same box."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the interface, which is very user friendly. We are utilizing most of the features, like content filtering. The firewall is powerful."
"The solution is very robust."
"It safeguards against cyber attacks."
"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 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."
"The UTM platform has been the most valuable."
"Its portal is user-friendly. I am able to manage the user data and access control through this device."
"The product has helped control bandwidth utilization, as well as enhanced connectivity and security to remote locations."
"The security capabilities are okay."
"You can geofence yourself if there is an incoming attack or a continuous ping from a company outside your country."
"Technical support is excellent."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is a very strong product with good support."
"The most valuable features are the firewall section, the VPN, and how you control live users."
"The most valuable feature is the IPSec forwarding."
"Some configuration elements cannot be easily altered once created."
"There are some license issues. Not every feature must have a separate license. There must be some of kind synergy between the license so we don't have to pay for every individual license that we would like to have."
"The setup is pretty complex and not easy to implement."
"The solution needs to improve its integration with cybersecurity."
"It would be nice if FortiGate incorporated some built-in endpoint protection features. I would also like a built-in SOC dashboard for managing multiple Fortinet firewalls."
"The pricing could be a bit better, especially when you consider how they have the most basic offering priced."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"The web-cache feature which was previously on the FortiGate device, but was deleted with the recent upgrade should be returned. It was a very valuable feature for us."
"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 solution should be more user-friendly."
"Some features that could be improved are advanced threat protection, sandboxing, and vulnerability management."
"I am not able to see a demo."
"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."
"As we don't have a representative of Check Point in Mozambique, this makes it very difficult when we have some issues to resolve."
"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."
"On-box sandstorm should be available. As of now, it is from their cloud."
"I would say there's room for improvement in terms of the GUI. Because it is better than some of the other standard firewalls. They have the drag and drop features."
"I would like to see real-time alerts on traffic insights."
"The solution had a feature to import users from a CSV file. However, the latest version does not have that option."
"It isn't missing anything."
"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."
"I would like to see a better content management pack and also the website searching should be better."
"Maybe network traffic analysis for malware and malicious behavior."
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 Untangle NG Firewall.
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