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 stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the APIs. They are the most widely known."
"Good load balancing feature."
"Fortinet offers the latest versions to cater to the needs of enterprises."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The user interface (UI) is very, very good."
"The features that we have found most valuable are the SSL VPN and the User Portal."
"I like several features that this product has, such as antivirus and internet navigation inspection. It is also simple to use."
"We find all the features valuable, particularly the firewall, application control, URL filtering, and HTTPS detection."
"The ease of deployment has been nice. It is like managing any of our on-prem firewalls."
"SSL/TLS traffic inspection features are used for advanced threat prevention against secure SSL traffic."
"The SSL spectrum proved to be the most valuable for our incoming connections."
"Check Point has pretty simple solutions, like the virtual appliance which you just download and it is imported into VMware and you just start using it."
"Customers appreciate the CME plugin for automatically understanding assets within the cloud. This information appears in the manager, allowing users to tag the assets and adjust policies and rules accordingly."
"The solution helps protect network security by offering threat prevention, addressing vulnerabilities, and utilizing blades."
"When browsing, it scans sites to ensure that they are safe and that no harm can be caused."
"The VPN is excellent on the solution."
"The tool is stable."
"User and network policies to be managed on a single screen with powerful filtering and search options."
"There are plenty of features available, such as Full Guard and WAN."
"The solution is easy to integrate."
"It is very easy to use."
"The firewall feature has different branches, such as extended firewalls."
"The user interface is well laid out and understandable."
"It needs to improve its ISP load balancing."
"There can be more security in hybrid implementations. When a customer has a hybrid environment where some parts are in the cloud, we need a consistent security solution for such scenarios."
"Fortinet FortiGate can improve the integration with Active Directory. Additionally, I would like to have a Cloud Controller, such as they do in the Cisco Meraki solution."
"The cloud features can be improved."
"There are some tiny bugs that sometimes affect the operations. In the past revision of it, there was a bug. Because of the bug, we had to downgrade the version. It happened only with the last revision."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more capabilities for troubleshooting VPN connections. For example, I do get some feedback about the current status, but I could use some history and logging of important events. The information is logged in our Syslog server, but I could use that information from the device. If they could provide a GUI to have some more insight on what's going with my VPN would be useful."
"Fortinet should focus on enhancing the capabilities of FortiGate by consolidating its various products, such as FortiGate Cloud, FortiManager, and FortiAnalyzer."
"It would be nice if FortiGate incorporated some built-in endpoint protection features. I would also like a built-in SOC dashboard for managing multiple Fortinet firewalls."
"The product needs to improve technical support."
"Documentation might become too complex or too spread out, especially for newcomers."
"There is room for improvement in the integration with PaaS services from the public cloud. It would be very helpful."
"Its architecture and user interface need improvement. The user experience for this solution also needs to be improved, particularly in implementation, management, and operations."
"In the next release, including VRF support would be highly beneficial."
"People don't know about the tool's features. There's a lack of skill. Users require more knowledge on how to integrate it into the cloud environment and orchestrate routing. So, it's not necessarily a CloudGuard Network Security or Check Point issue but more about integration, knowledge, and understanding."
"It is a very expensive program and there are additional costs despite the standard licensing fees."
"If you compare the GUI with the Palo Alto and Forcepoint in the Cisco, they're very easy. Check Point, due to its design, is a little bit complex. They should make the GUI easy to use so that anyone can understand it easily, like Fortinet's GUI. Many companies end up using Fortinet because the GUI is very easy, and there's no need for training. They just deploy the box and do the configuration."
"The solution should improve its scalability because it cannot support enterprise networks."
"Sometimes, during part of the configuration, if you don't have a lot of technical knowledge, then you may struggle a bit to configure it."
"I would say there's room for improvement in terms of the GUI. Because it is better than some of the other standard firewalls. They have the drag and drop features."
"There is a lot or room for improvement, because it is still not a fourth or fifth generation firewall. It lacks security features."
"The product fails to provide proper reports, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The product had a hang issue. We needed to reboot, recreate the image, and reconfigure the previous image because the product hanged frequently."
"There needs to be more documentation that users can access to help them understand the solution or troubleshoot as necessary."
"The data support response time should be improved."
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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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