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's inexpensive compared to some of the other technology out there."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, application control, IPS control, and FortiSandbox."
"Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"We can use our devices to check all of the perimeters. It secures email websites."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is URL filtering."
"The web tutor and automatic rules by schedule are good features."
"Some of the key features of the solution is that it has good reporting, you can receive many details from the connection, for example, clients and website information."
"I am "headache free" that I don't have to categorize all the websites and that security has been pre categorized by the people, and that the services are getting updated. At least one part of my problem is over."
"The databases and its signatures are its most important features."
"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 solution is very robust."
"It provides visibility and drives organizational security."
"The most outstanding feature is being able to centralize each of the functions in a single device."
"We can create a domain to separate and segregate some functions, some services."
"It safeguards against cyber attacks."
"Firewalls help us a lot in controlling traffic on our network and preventing unauthorized access."
"The solution has good load balancers."
"The port forwarding is good."
"The tool is stable."
"User and network policies to be managed on a single screen with powerful filtering and search options."
"The reporting features are very good."
"The solution is excellent for web and application filtering and remote access with the VPN."
"Our customers find it economical and offers good security. These two features are key. Ease of installation and implementation are also key factors."
"Technical support is excellent."
"They should improve the interface to make it more user-friendly."
"With FortiGate, the main complaint that I have heard is about the technical support."
"The solution could be more secure and stable."
"The setup is pretty complex and not easy to implement."
"From a reporting perspective, there's room for improvement. They're providing FortiAnalyzer through which one can get some enhancements, but the visibility and reporting still need slight improvement."
"Palo Alto has a feature called WildFire Analysis that is unavailable in FortiGate. WildFire is better than a sandbox because it can address zero-day threats and vulnerabilities. It can immediately identify zero-day threats from the cloud."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"I would like to see more advanced developments of a wireless controller in the future."
"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."
"The interface needs improvement."
"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."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"The configuration requires an expert to be set up, so it could be made simpler."
"The solution had a feature to import users from a CSV file. However, the latest version does not have that option."
"The VPN is an area that can be improved."
"There is a lot or room for improvement, because it is still not a fourth or fifth generation firewall. It lacks security features."
"I would like to see improvements in the development of reports. The process needs to be made simple."
"The reporting part could be more user-friendly for troubleshooting and identifying network issues. It should be more easy for a normal user to identify the problem in their network."
"The reporting should be improved as well as the backup."
"The price is obviously a more sensitive area to focus on."
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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