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 base firewall features are quite valuable to us."
"Its administrative panel is very intuitive and simple. It is simpler than the other solutions that we had. As an administrator, we are always looking for the easiest solution to manage network policies. We are able to filter everything on our network and also use the VPN feature, which is important these days when people are working remotely during COVID."
"We have found it to be very reliable and that's why our teams and various users in our company use it as our main firewall every day."
"Customers are more inclined towards FortiGate because of application control, web filtering, and anti-spam features. The support from the FortiGate team is good, and price-wise, it is affordable."
"Good anti-malware and web filtering features."
"Their proxy-based inspection is responsive and secure."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the rules and quality of service."
"I like Fortinet FortiGate's antispam filter, SPN, and clustering features."
"The central management feature is a big plus, allowing us to manage both local and cloud gateways from one platform."
"Check Point CloudGuard is quick to deploy and easy for the customer to use."
"Check Point is one of the few solutions that pay attention to cloud security. Many others mostly focus on providing on-premises solutions."
"It is a good-to-use tool that is also flexible."
"This solution has good scalability and stability."
"The solution is reliable."
"We have unified management. It is one of the advantages of this product."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"Good user interface."
"Web and content filtering are valuable in preventing people from abusing the network and pushing up the bandwidth price."
"The product, itself, doesn't seem to have any bugs or glitches."
"You can geofence yourself if there is an incoming attack or a continuous ping from a company outside your country."
"I like the SSL VPN connection. Cyberoam works well for controlling users and authenticating their connection to the internet."
"The security capabilities are okay."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"Technical support is excellent."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve if it had a cloud-managed solution."
"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."
"Reporting is limited to providing an external appliance for improving the reporting capabilities of the FortiAnalyzer. It does not offer a central management and is also sold separably as an appliance."
"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."
"Tunnel flapping was one of the major things I had seen wherein your internet link remains but your VPN tunnel is down. However, since I got a fix from the TAC team, I have not noticed it, but the customer complained a few times that they couldn't access the internet because of this problem."
"The support we receive when we need to upgrade is not satisfactory and has room for improvement."
"It claims it does DLP, but the degree and level of controls are very basic."
"It needs more available central management."
"In case the device is inaccessible due to some issue such as CPU or memory, there is no separate port or hardware partition provided for troubleshooting purposes."
"The cost needs improvement as it is currently quite expensive."
"The documentation has been rough. Being able to do it yourself can be hit or miss given the constraints of the documentation."
"Micro-Segmentation functionality for EAST-WEST traffic is not native and requires integration with a third-party OEM."
"The user experience might suffer if we don't have the time to follow up with our clients and ensure they are using the right options. Clients also want more local support in Portuguese and Spanish during their normal business hours. That's something I hear from my customers and my team, too."
"Check Point support, beyond CloudGuard, does need some improvement."
"The threat scanning system should categorize the level of threats to enhance reliable data interpretation."
"We are at the place where we are looking at better integration with the management system. We use an MDS today, and it is self-deployed. We want to get to the Smart-1 Cloud, but we do not know what that looks like today because it does not support a multi-domain setup. Smart-1 should either be able to do multi-domain or there should be some form of taking a multi-domain environment and putting it in Smart-1."
"The VPN is an area that can be improved."
"Sophos VPN connectivity could be improved, as it can be lengthy, and users take longer to connect"
"The product strategy of the manufacturer is strange. I don't understand what they are doing in that regard."
"Smaller CR15 units don’t have a hard disc or built in IView software. These units could do with that feature."
"It is not a scalable product. This is because if you want to increase the capacity of the solution, then you have to change the device."
"In my experience the solution can be easier to configure with more documentation, we need more training."
"I would like to see improvements in the development of reports. The process needs to be made simple."
"Sometimes, users are timed out intermittently."
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 5th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 120 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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