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 has improved our security capabilities."
"Our security improved from being able to put in rules and close off unwanted traffic."
"Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"It's great for capturing the traffic and troubleshooting it."
"Good performance, stability, and virtual domain ability."
"We use the filtering feature the most. It has filtering and inbuilt securities. We can create customized rules to define which users can access a particular type of site. We can create policies inside the firewall."
"It's user-friendly and easy to operate."
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"The UTM platform has been the most valuable."
"The solution is very robust."
"The filtering was very good."
"The most outstanding feature is being able to centralize each of the functions in a single device."
"Firewalls help us a lot in controlling traffic on our network and preventing unauthorized access."
"It safeguards against cyber attacks."
"It provides visibility and drives organizational security."
"We can create a domain to separate and segregate some functions, some services."
"I believe it's the advanced security software that offers SMPP protection for the agent."
"All in one UTM appliance."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"You can geofence yourself if there is an incoming attack or a continuous ping from a company outside your country."
"The tool's robust features allow for the customization of policies, objects, and firewall settings."
"Web and content filtering are valuable in preventing people from abusing the network and pushing up the bandwidth price."
"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."
"The firewall feature has different branches, such as extended firewalls."
"They should improve high CPU and memory usage that occurs."
"It is very expensive, and their support is not very good. I hope that their technical support will be better in the future."
"Scalability for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be improved. SD-WAN security for this solution also needs some improvement."
"The routing capability on the FortiGate devices has room for improvement."
"If they could extend their fabric towards other vendor environments for integration, that would be great."
"Technical support is good but the response time could be faster."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"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."
"Some features that could be improved are advanced threat protection, sandboxing, and vulnerability management."
"While the technical support is good, the Indian level technical support could use an upgrade."
"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."
"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."
"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 solution should be more user-friendly."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"Network visibility is an area in the solution with shortcomings where improvements can be made."
"SD-WAN should be included in the tool."
"Smaller CR15 units don’t have a hard disc or built in IView software. These units could do with that feature."
"The product fails to provide proper reports, making it an area where improvements are required."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could improve by adding VPN site-to-site capabilities. The correct version does not work with Microsoft Azure Cloud."
"The reporting should be improved as well as the backup."
"While the security features are excellent, they could be improved."
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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