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 integration with Active Directory is one of the good features. Most of the customers are now looking for the Single Sign-on feature. So, being able to integrate Active Directory with the firewall is useful. It is also easy."
"Advanced routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP, PBR). It gives you a seamless and simple integration into a large network."
"The management console is pretty simple, so anyone who understands networking can initially deploy the solution."
"The security fabric is excellent."
"Mainly the FortiGate reporting system is very good. It guides us through all the expectations of security. Fortinet provides us all that we need for security. Also, Fortinet FortiGate is a next-generation firewall. It is much more advanced than others."
"FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"The reporting and monitoring are very good."
"It is a good source for firewall protection."
"The solution has been quite stable."
"We consolidated from three management consoles and three clusters to only one, which is a big improvement."
"Our clients choose CloudGuard as a natural progression of their solutions. They understand Microsoft and CloudGuard fits."
"The IPS, application and URL filtering, as well as Identity Awareness, are all very valuable features."
"This software is great in overall performance since it can locate any trouble across the networking system and provide solutions before it affects workflows."
"Moving into the cloud without having to change a lot of our internal processes and retrain staff is one of the biggest benefits of this solution."
"It improves the availability of engineers to carry out projects."
"The 24/7 online customer support services enhance effective operations and provide quick services in case of a system failure."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"The product is a simple and user-friendly UTM that can handle accounting, reporting, firewall, IPS, and antivirus for industries."
"The reporting features are very good."
"In some circumstances, the malware functionality is the most important feature, and in other cases, some other features."
"The VPN is excellent on the solution."
"The tool is stable."
"The product, itself, doesn't seem to have any bugs or glitches."
"There are plenty of features that are valuable in the Sophos Cyberoam UTM. We use all the features, such as email Security, firewall rules, web server security, web devices, web protection."
"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."
"The customization could be improved. Cisco, for example, is much better at this. They need to work to be at least as good as they are."
"The user interface could be improved to make it less confusing and easier to set up."
"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."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"The cloud features and integration could be improved."
"Fortinet currently has many products bundled with FortiGate including the basic firewall and load balancer, and I think that that they need to have separate product portfolios for each of these specialized services."
"We would like to see a better training platform implemented."
"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."
"The price of the solution could be reduced, it is expensive."
"The product needs to improve support. They don't consider my case the number one priority even though I want a quick resolution."
"The product can still grow."
"Check Point CloudGuard Network Security should give productive reports as per business requirements. It needs to improve support since the time-limit extended beyond a day. It should include more seamless API integrations."
"At CPX, we heard that we can see all the things on the same platform. That is what we have been asking for, and hopefully, we are going to start seeing it this year."
"The documentation could be much better."
"The migration to TerraForm is a little more complicated, but we made it work."
"The setup is a bit complex, so we needed help from a consultant."
"I don't know whether this will be included in an upgrade, but I would like to get the user utility, like seeing where the users are using more of the data."
"There needs to be more documentation that users can access to help them understand the solution or troubleshoot as necessary."
"It isn't missing anything."
"Cyberoam configuration is done through the browser, which is one of the places that viruses spread."
"The technical support response time could be faster."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could have a more advanced reporting function."
"The VPN is an area that can be improved."
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 5th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 117 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 Untangle NG Firewall. See our Check Point CloudGuard Network Security vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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