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."I like several features that this product has, such as antivirus and internet navigation inspection. It is also simple to use."
"The multi-tenancy feature is most valuable. It integrates very well with FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer."
"It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"It has improved our organization with control data."
"Fortigate's most valuable feature is that it doesn't need a push policy when writing rules."
"Reliability is the best feature. We faced some issues when we were setting it up, but the service, portal, and administration are good."
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"The solution provides a centralized management console for easy administration and monitoring of security policies and events, making it easy for the security team."
"Identity awareness, URL filtering, IDS, DLP, Content Filtering, VPN, and Application Control are all excellent."
"Auto Scaling is one of the features that make me want to choose CloudGuard over actual HW."
"The query feature is going to be a game-changer for us as we move forward."
"Monitoring using SmartConsole and all its features is extremely easy, and I find SmartEvent an excellent monitoring tool for spotting threats and user behaviour."
"The ease of deployment has been nice. It is like managing any of our on-prem firewalls."
"I like the tool's ability to manage cloud traffic locally without routing it through our data centers."
"We have unified management. It is one of the advantages of this product."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is a very strong product with good support."
"Web application filtering eases internet access control."
"The most valuable feature is the IPSec forwarding."
"We consider the user level and control features of Sophos Cyberoam UTM to be the best."
"The performance has been good overall."
"Its portal is user-friendly. I am able to manage the user data and access control through this device."
"User and network policies to be managed on a single screen with powerful filtering and search options."
"The reporting features are very good."
"I would suggest that Fortinet add sandboxing to their solution."
"The platform's interface could improve."
"Usually, we sell the bundle with the UTM or threat management piece with IPS, IDS. Other providers, such as Palo Alto, are ahead in terms of safe functionality. So, for me, delivering truly safe service is probably something that still needs to be improved."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"Scalability is one of the disadvantages. When it comes to scalability, you have to actually change the box. If you want to upgrade it, you need to actually change the existing box and probably you take the system off to other sites."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"Backup can be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate can improve by integrating the web application firewall and the DDoS protection part of the solution. Having a WAF feature, web application firewall, and proxy together would be a good benefit."
"Check Point Virtual Systems is a complete solution, but pricing can be better."
"Easier optimization techniques can definitely help with better performance of the OS, as using the vanilla software doesn't actually showcase the real capability of the software."
"The management console can be simplified because at the moment, it is a bit of a challenge to use."
"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."
"I haven't used CloudGuard Network Security in the past couple of years as I moved out of the network security role. However, based on my previous experience, there were improvements, especially in in-place upgrades. Regarding cost, it might be potentially cheaper considering resource utilization in Azure and VM costs, but licensing could be improved, possibly moving towards a simpler model."
"The business and product development team should introduce a high-end feedback collection mechanism and analyze the customer requirements constructively."
"We utilize logging systems, and geolocation is crucial for us as some applications must only be accessible from our country. However, there have been occasional issues with this feature."
"CloudGuard Network Security's pricing is expensive. We have encountered issues with its licensing."
"The blocking needs to be improved."
"The product strategy of the manufacturer is strange. I don't understand what they are doing in that regard."
"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 price is obviously a more sensitive area to focus on."
"In my experience the solution can be easier to configure with more documentation, we need more training."
"The following could be improved: Web Filtering using wildcards; clarity regarding the firewall rules; granular reporting features."
"The setup is a bit complex, so we needed help from a consultant."
"There are some issues with logs and report limitations."
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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, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, Cisco Secure Firewall and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, whereas Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Sophos UTM and SonicWall NSa. See our Check Point CloudGuard Network Security vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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