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."It is user friendly, and has all the features you need."
"The solution is highly scalable because they have devices that can handle a large amount of traffic."
"The pricing is great and very reasonable."
"The most important features of Fortinet FortiGate are the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and firewall control applications."
"Good anti-malware and web filtering features."
"This product is definitely scalable."
"FortiGate is very simple to manage and easy to use."
"I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable."
"We can create a domain to separate and segregate some functions, some services."
"The UTM platform has been the most valuable."
"The solution is very robust."
"The databases and its signatures are its most important features."
"It safeguards against cyber attacks."
"Firewalls help us a lot in controlling traffic on our network and preventing unauthorized access."
"It provides visibility and drives organizational security."
"The most outstanding feature is being able to centralize each of the functions in a single device."
"The product is easy to maintain."
"The product, itself, doesn't seem to have any bugs or glitches."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"The main features I have found best are the load balancer and ease of use."
"I believe it's the advanced security software that offers SMPP protection for the agent."
"The most valuable features are the firewall section, the VPN, and how you control live users."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is the solution is easy to configure for users."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"There are some complex administration tasks in their administration portal. That needs to be improved."
"Fortinet needs more memory to save the log files. We need it to save the logs on the hardware and not in the cloud. I know this feature is available in FortiCloud, but if we need this log locally, it is not available."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"There are problems with the custom reporting of the unique traffic. The data is there, but it is too difficult for us to extract."
"The support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"FortiOS is not simple."
"They should improve the interface to make it more user-friendly."
"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."
"I am not able to see a demo."
"The interface needs improvement."
"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."
"While the technical support is good, the Indian level technical support could use an upgrade."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"Some features that could be improved are advanced threat protection, sandboxing, and vulnerability management."
"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."
"The blocking needs to be improved."
"The Traffic Discovery feature should allow administrators to disconnect unnecessary live connections."
"It isn't missing anything."
"VPN configuration is not very swift."
"What needs improvement in Sophos Cyberoam UTM is openness in the competition among Sophos partners or any other Sophos product. Another area for improvement in the solution is pricing. It could be cheaper."
"I have problems with the email filtering. Emails pass through without any filtering affecting them. When I get back to them and tell them this is the issue, they check everything and say it is not in their database signature and they have to update it. But you know, by that time, my user has already opened it."
"The product had a hang issue. We needed to reboot, recreate the image, and reconfigure the previous image because the product hanged frequently."
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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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