We performed a comparison between 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 most valuable feature of this solution is Quota."
"The most valuable features are simplicity, management, and that it's constantly evolving."
"The most valuable features are the policies, filtering, and configuration."
"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."
"The UTM feature is quite good. FortiAP is easy to deploy because both Fortigate and FortiAP are under the same brand. Otherwise, you need to do more work on the configuration."
"I am "headache free" that I don't have to categorize all the websites and that security has been pre categorized by the people, and that the services are getting updated. At least one part of my problem is over."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is the simple configuration."
"The GUI is good."
"The tool's most valuable feature is its scalability. You will only have to pay less for scaling up. Its notable benefit is deployment complexity. Regional deployment is simpler compared to on-premise setup."
"SSL/TLS traffic inspection features are used for advanced threat prevention against secure SSL traffic."
"We primarily secure our network using CloudGuard Network Security's next-generation firewall features, including anti-spam, IPS, and URL filtering. Our chosen package for the go-to-market strategy is NGTP. For customers seeking more features, we provide options to upgrade to the tool's advanced packages."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring. We can easily monitor what kind of stuff comes over to our network and we can then check the dashboard and work accordingly."
"Its blades and VSLS (Virtual System Load Sharing) work fine."
"Security effectiveness is the most valuable feature. Operational efficiency, reporting, and support are also good."
"The most valuable feature of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is the increased mail protection including spam."
"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."
"I found that the best feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is reporting. Its reporting feature is excellent, fast, and easy to prep and launch."
"There are plenty of features available, such as Full Guard and WAN."
"The firewall feature has different branches, such as extended firewalls."
"The product, itself, doesn't seem to have any bugs or glitches."
"User and network policies to be managed on a single screen with powerful filtering and search options."
"The solution is excellent for web and application filtering and remote access with the VPN."
"SD-WAN and IPSec features are valuable to me."
"Bandwidth Management and aggregation. It is valuable for combining two ISPs. Switching to a secondary/redundant ISP is thus seamless, in the event that the primary ISP goes down. The Bandwidth Management is also valuable for limiting heavy downloaders that may impact negatively on the experience of other users."
"Maybe they could make some features more accessible, such as a way to translate directions between two networks that share the same subnets."
"You do need some IT knowledge in order to effectively work with the solution."
"We have an issue with hotel guest vouchers."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"It would be a benefit if Fortinet would release a one-stop solution that is better integrated with other products and an automated emergency response system."
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"They need to improve their technical support."
"WAN load-balancing could be a lot better at detecting when a link is poor or inconsistent, and not just flat out dead."
"The deployment phase takes too much time."
"Documentation might become too complex or too spread out, especially for newcomers."
"It is a very expensive program and there are additional costs despite the standard licensing fees."
"The SD-WAN could be better."
"Check Point CloudGuard Network Security could improve by making it easier to configure."
"Most clients nowadays tend to move to the cloud and their data security is key. If CloudGuard could be able to give the client that full visibility of how their data is protected on the cloud, then that would be a great selling point for Check Point."
"The product needs to improve technical support."
"The price of the solution could be reduced, it is expensive."
"On-box sandstorm should be available. As of now, it is from their cloud."
"What needs improvement in Sophos Cyberoam UTM is openness in the competition among Sophos partners or any other Sophos product. Another area for improvement in the solution is pricing. It could be cheaper."
"It isn't missing anything."
"I would like to see real-time alerts on traffic insights."
"The data support response time should be improved."
"The reports need to be more detailed and granular."
"The policy is a bit too vague."
"SD-WAN should be included in the tool."
CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 5th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 54 reviews while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 27 reviews. CloudGuard Network Security is rated 8.4, while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of CloudGuard Network Security writes "Does what it is designed for and matches what we have on-prem". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Cyberoam UTM writes "A versatile solution that comes with valuable security features like geofencing and traffic shaping". 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 CloudGuard Network Security vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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