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 application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"Advanced routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP, PBR). It gives you a seamless and simple integration into a large network."
"The CLI is robust and powerful, enabling rapid, consistent changes via SSH."
"The technical support is great."
"This product is definitely scalable."
"I like that they have given me a solution at a fair price."
"Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features are ease of use, flexibility, and most of the configuration we can be done using the GUI. When we compare Fortinet FortiGate with other solutions the firewall policy are very easy to understand."
"FortiGate firewalls are easy to manage through a user-friendly web interface. They also have advanced features like DDoS and DLP. However, I wouldn't recommend enabling all of these features on one device because it can cause performance issues."
"The SSL spectrum proved to be the most valuable for our incoming connections."
"It really is a pretty complete solution."
"It makes securing our cloud workload super easy, and we are able to push any sort of policy changes we need pretty quickly"
"The solution provides a centralized management console for easy administration and monitoring of security policies and events, making it easy for the security team."
"Its integration and use of features, such as advanced threat prevention, have helped us a lot with malware prevention and also with avoiding exposure to false positives."
"Any kind of cloud environment anywhere can be protected through this effortlessly."
"A unique architecture makes this product stand out from other solutions."
"The tool's most valuable features are threat prevention and protection mechanisms."
"The port forwarding is good."
"The most valuable features are the firewall section, the VPN, and how you control live users."
"The product has helped control bandwidth utilization, as well as enhanced connectivity and security to remote locations."
"Its portal is user-friendly. I am able to manage the user data and access control through this device."
"We consider the user level and control features of Sophos Cyberoam UTM to be the best."
"The most valuable feature is the IPSec forwarding."
"The main features I have found best are the load balancer and ease of use."
"The firewall feature has different branches, such as extended firewalls."
"I don't like that anything more than very basic reporting is not included."
"A couple of things I've seen that need improvement, especially in terms of a hard coding. The driver-level active moment really is out-of-the-box and we have to have contact the customer support and sometimes it is difficult to resolve."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"We would like to see an upgrade to the VPN feature, we are using the VPN from outside of our office and there is a limitation to 10 connections, more connections would be suitable."
"There are SD-WAN network monitoring, SD-WAN features, Industrial Databases, Internet of Things, Detection, etc., however, we do have not licenses for those features. We thought that if you bought a product, you should have all of the features it offers. Why should you need to make so many extra purchases to enable features? They should have one price for the entire offering."
"The reporting in Fortinet FortiGate could improve. Customers are having to purchase additional reporting components. When I have used the Sophos solution it is a complete solution, in Fortinet FortiGate you have to use additional tools to have the features needed."
"The ease of use could be improved."
"With the addition of some features, it is possible that FortiGate can be used in all verticals."
"The product needs to offer multi-tenancy."
"Check Point CloudGuard Network Security could improve by making it easier to configure."
"I hope that Check Point continues to improve its technical documentation regarding the Check Point CloudGuard IaaS gateway and management system."
"When upgrading the firewall, the old VPC containing the firewalls needs to be destroyed. After that, a new firewall is redeployed in the setup. Additionally, there's a need to separate the routing, and the routing from the old VPC has to be recreated in the new one."
"The cost needs improvement as it is currently quite expensive."
"The complexity to deploy should be decreased."
"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."
"Check Point support, beyond CloudGuard, does need some improvement."
"There is a lot or room for improvement, because it is still not a fourth or fifth generation firewall. It lacks security features."
"The technical support response time could be faster."
"I would like to see improvements in the development of reports. The process needs to be made simple."
"The configuration requires an expert to be set up, so it could be made simpler."
"The VPN is an area that can be improved."
"The setup is a bit complex, so we needed help from a consultant."
"There needs to be more documentation that users can access to help them understand the solution or troubleshoot as necessary."
"The reporting should be improved as well as the backup."
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 5th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 112 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, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, 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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