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 features that we have found most valuable are the SSL VPN and the User Portal."
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"FortiGate is very simple to manage and easy to use."
"This solution has solid UTM features combined with a nice GUI."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is Quota."
"Fortinet FortiGate has many valuable features, such as IDS, and intrusion detection. It has security features that are in part with the technologies that are available in the market."
"The solution is highly scalable because they have devices that can handle a large amount of traffic."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"The most valuable feature of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is the increased mail protection including spam."
"We are using gateways, and I appreciate the high-availability gateways they have. They stand out more than the competitors."
"The most valuable feature I have found in CloudGuard Network Security is the flexibility to rebuild the firewall as needed."
"The CloudGuard Network Security's most valuable feature is implementing IPS for accessing our data center and server environment in Azure. It helps us to prevent attacks. By protecting our environment with Check Point, which we were already familiar with, it provided a solution that extended into the cloud environment."
"Its blades and VSLS (Virtual System Load Sharing) work fine."
"We have complete visibility of attacks originating from email including spear-phishing, spoofing, etc."
"Check Point CloudGuard technical support is good."
"The VPN features in CloudGuard Network Security have been the most valuable for us."
"The solution's web filtering is an important feature for us in our company."
"The product is a simple and user-friendly UTM that can handle accounting, reporting, firewall, IPS, and antivirus for industries."
"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."
"It is a VPN that serves all your needs as an application firewall."
"I'm more inclined towards the conventional firewall. So for me, I'm more geared towards the standard firewall type functionalities as well as the web application firewall because that seems to work fine."
"I believe it's the advanced security software that offers SMPP protection for the agent."
"The product is easy to maintain."
"The feature which gives us a lot of pain is ASIC architecture."
"It should come integrated or have its own type of network monitor tool in a module. There should just be one package, and you are good to go."
"They should improve high CPU and memory usage that occurs."
"It should be more stable. There should be full integration within Fortinet products themselves as well as with other third-party products. Especially when you're not dealing with SIEM and the correlation of the security box, we want Fortinet to be able to share that information with as many other products as it can."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"I think they need to improve more in order to be a competitor with the leaders of the field."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"I don't really have anything negative to say as far as Fortinet firewalls are concerned. If anything, they can support a user a little bit better. They can stop being so time-sensitive about how much time the support call has taken, and they can help you do it yourself."
"Check Point support, beyond CloudGuard, does need some improvement."
"Check Point CloudGuard Network Security could improve by making it easier to configure."
"I would like to see more focus on east-west traffic inspection and AWS."
"There is room for improvement in the integration with PaaS services from the public cloud. It would be very helpful."
"CloudGuard Network Security needs to include new features. One specific feature I would like to see is the ability to protect external resources using single sign-on integration with various identity providers, including custom identity providers. Its pricing could also be cheaper."
"We did not use the AWS Transit Gateway, and that's one of the things that we're currently using. I believe we will be working with Check Point again, in the near future, to implement it, once they start having proper support for a single customer with multiple accounts. When we were using them, we had to install Check Point on each and every single account."
"Check Point CloudGuard is not a feature-centric product because Check Point concentrates on security."
"Our biggest complaint concerns the high resource usage for IDP/IPS, as we cannot turn on all of the features even with new hardware."
"The solution is at its end of life and some of the appliances are finishing."
"The following could be improved: Web Filtering using wildcards; clarity regarding the firewall rules; granular reporting features."
"There needs to be more documentation that users can access to help them understand the solution or troubleshoot as necessary."
"It should have a better VPN client. We decided to find something different than Cyberoam because of the VPN client software. It would be nice to have a user interface not only in English but also in different languages."
"The solution's pricing could be a problem for some small businesses."
"VPN configuration is not very swift."
"Cyberoam configuration is done through the browser, which is one of the places that viruses spread."
"Sophos VPN connectivity could be improved, as it can be lengthy, and users take longer to connect"
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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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