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 most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is URL filtering."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and the UI. It has always provided me with what I needed. I have no need for additional costs that other solutions have, such as Sophos."
"The IPS is good. It protect my network from attackers."
"It is quite easy to handle."
"It has very easy management and an amazing ETM configuration."
"The scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate."
"The solution is very, very easy to use."
"I like that you are able to manage FortiGate from the FortiManager to create a more centralized environment."
"Its blades and VSLS (Virtual System Load Sharing) work fine."
"The tool's most valuable features for us are threat prevention, HTTPS inspection, and the Anti-Bot blade. Threat prevention helps to protect our assets from threats. HTTPS inspection ensures secure communication, and the Anti-Bot blade is particularly helpful in detecting C2 servers, enhancing our ability to identify malicious activities and protect our network."
"It offers remarkable flexibility in how we configure and utilize the resources."
"The solution helps protect network security by offering threat prevention, addressing vulnerabilities, and utilizing blades."
"Check Point is one of the few solutions that pay attention to cloud security. Many others mostly focus on providing on-premises solutions."
"Auto-scaling and zero touch are valuable features."
"It's possible to sync the Check Point Management with the cloud portal, therefore allowing automated rules to be set in place whenever creating a new VM."
"Our clients choose CloudGuard as a natural progression of their solutions. They understand Microsoft and CloudGuard fits."
"You can geofence yourself if there is an incoming attack or a continuous ping from a company outside your country."
"Web and content filtering are valuable in preventing people from abusing the network and pushing up the bandwidth price."
"The tool's robust features allow for the customization of policies, objects, and firewall settings."
"It is a VPN that serves all your needs as an application firewall."
"SD-WAN and IPSec features are valuable to me."
"The port forwarding is good."
"We have never had to restart a firewall. The firewalls have all worked perfectly fine."
"For a small-medium enterprise this solution is easy to manage and operate."
"They sometimes hide some features and if you want to enable them, you have to go in the CLI, enable the feature and configure it through the CLI. Customers, typically, like everything to be done by the GUI."
"I haven't had a single issue since using Fortinet."
"The integration with third-party tools may be something that they should work on."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"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."
"It should provide better visibility over the network and more information in the form of reports for the end users. Its installation should also be easier."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"At the cost level, the solution is somewhat expensive."
"Zero touch removes any independence for configuring."
"Micro-Segmentation functionality for EAST-WEST traffic is not native and requires integration with a third-party OEM."
"They can improve their security features to the next advanced level so that their efficiency in catching the malware can become 100%, and there is no scope for any data loss or leakage from the system due to any issue."
"The solution's integration with cloud providers has seen significant development in the past months, but there is room for improvement for better integration."
"There is a limitation with the version upgrade. We are using version 81.10 and from what I understand, it is problematic to upgrade this version. I do not know if that is true."
"New features have been introduced recently, but they have not yet been integrated into CloudGuard Vsec."
"The initial deployment using the ARM template in Azure was straightforward, but migrating to Terraform added complexity, although we managed to make it work."
"There needs to be more documentation that users can access to help them understand the solution or troubleshoot as necessary."
"Cyberoam UTM needs to have more certifications with third-parties, such as NSS Labs."
"It isn't missing anything."
"I would like to see a better content management pack and also the website searching should be better."
"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."
"Maybe network traffic analysis for malware and malicious behavior."
"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."
"The technical support response time could be faster."
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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 Sophos XG. See our Check Point CloudGuard Network Security vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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