We performed a comparison between Check Point CloudGuard Network Security and Sophos Cyberoam UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The multi-tenancy feature is most valuable. It integrates very well with FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL VPN, as it allows us to connect and it separates this product from other firewalls."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use. Anyone can easily maintain it."
"This solution made it very easy to manage our bandwidth."
"The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"The most valuable features are that it is very simple to configure and to manage."
"It is a safe product."
"FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"The tool's most valuable features for us are threat prevention, HTTPS inspection, and the Anti-Bot blade. Threat prevention helps to protect our assets from threats. HTTPS inspection ensures secure communication, and the Anti-Bot blade is particularly helpful in detecting C2 servers, enhancing our ability to identify malicious activities and protect our network."
"The security configuration features have enhanced the reliable coordination of programs and data safety."
"Check Point CloudGuard technical support is good."
"The most valuable feature of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is the ease of use. It was not difficult to learn."
"The solution helps protect network security by offering threat prevention, addressing vulnerabilities, and utilizing blades."
"We are using gateways, and I appreciate the high-availability gateways they have. They stand out more than the competitors."
"One of the main characteristics that Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has given us is granularity and visibility."
"I find it really useful that CloudGuard supports all the main players on the Public Clouds market including AWS, GCP, and Azure, as well as some exotic ones like Alibaba Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and IBM Cloud."
"The performance has been good overall."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature is the IPSec forwarding."
"The product, itself, doesn't seem to have any bugs or glitches."
"SD-WAN and IPSec features are valuable to me."
"The port forwarding is good."
"The security capabilities are okay."
"User and network policies to be managed on a single screen with powerful filtering and search options."
"In the next release, I would like to see the interface simplified to be more user-friendly."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"We would like to see better pricing."
"The solution could be more user friendly."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"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."
"Cisco Meraki products are rising very quickly in the cloud and the connected era. Meraki products offer much better ROI, upgradability, and manageability."
"In some cases, its initial setup could be hard for customers."
"Documentation might become too complex or too spread out, especially for newcomers."
"The solution could improve to have a DLP feature."
"Micro-Segmentation functionality for EAST-WEST traffic is not native and requires integration with a third-party OEM."
"The API integration is complex, which is an area that should be improved."
"Having a web UI in the VSX (or something similar) would be nice."
"This application can be more integrated with web application firewalls. Better integrations would provide more granularity, which would be helpful for focusing on the application itself and preventing attacks. It would be good to include the cross-domain search. If you have multiple firewalls that are managed on the same platform and you want to check who is using some particular objects or where a specific ID is being used, it should provide an option for this kind of search instead of having to check one by one on each firewall."
"The user interface can be improved."
"There is room for improvement in the integration with PaaS services from the public cloud. It would be very helpful."
"Technical support could be faster."
"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 documentation is not straightforward."
"Maybe network traffic analysis for malware and malicious behavior."
"The data support response time should be improved."
"Network visibility is an area in the solution with shortcomings where improvements can be made."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could improve by adding VPN site-to-site capabilities. The correct version does not work with Microsoft Azure Cloud."
"The price is obviously a more sensitive area to focus on."
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 5th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 119 reviews while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is rated 8.6, while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security writes "The solution has good threat emulation, threat extraction, and reporting features". 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 CloudGuard Network Security is most compared with Azure Firewall, VMware NSX, Cisco Secure Firewall, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, whereas Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos UTM, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Sophos XG. See our Check Point CloudGuard Network Security vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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