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."It's a user-friendly firewall. Most of the tasks are very simple. It's simple to configure and troubleshoot this firewall."
"It's very fast and easy to configure."
"UTM/NGFW features and FortiCloud for logs and backups are awesome."
"All of the features of Fortinet FortiGate are useful and the security protection is good."
"User-friendly and affordable security solution that's recommended for SMB customers. This solution has good technical support."
"It's very good and very stable for businesses. It works very well."
"Security solution with a straightforward and quick setup. It's a stable and scalable product."
"FortiGate has a strong security topic which allows all of the Fortinet devices to communicate and share information which makes their security more powerful."
"The Identity Awareness blade and dynamic tagging in Azure are valuable because they make access management automatic. Instead of manually setting up access for each new resource, it happens automatically based on the same access policy. This dynamic setup is scalable."
"This software is great in overall performance since it can locate any trouble across the networking system and provide solutions before it affects workflows."
"It makes securing our cloud workload super easy, and we are able to push any sort of policy changes we need pretty quickly"
"Security effectiveness is the most valuable feature. Operational efficiency, reporting, and support are also good."
"The CloudGuard Network Security's most valuable feature is implementing IPS for accessing our data center and server environment in Azure. It helps us to prevent attacks. By protecting our environment with Check Point, which we were already familiar with, it provided a solution that extended into the cloud environment."
"Advanced check prevention is a great feature that provides threat intelligence at speed."
"The visibility, the one-pane-of-glass which allows me to see all of my edge protection through one window and one log, is great. Monitoring everything through that one pane of glass is extremely valuable."
"The solution provides a centralized management console for easy administration and monitoring of security policies and events, making it easy for the security team."
"The firewall feature has different branches, such as extended firewalls."
"The solution is excellent for web and application filtering and remote access with the VPN."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The port forwarding is good."
"In terms of features and user-friendliness, the solution is good. It’s very stable. The solution is scalable. In Sophos Cyberoam UTM, the most valuable features are web and application filtering, routing functionalities, and VPN. It has helped us manage the bandwidth."
"Web Filtering and Application Filtering saves a lot of my bandwidth and improves the user's productivity."
"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."
"The product has helped control bandwidth utilization, as well as enhanced connectivity and security to remote locations."
"The cloud management and automation capability could be improved."
"The solution lacks sufficient filtering."
"Fortinet already improved FortiGate, but in the current market, many brands of security devices have improved together. Fortinet still needs to catch up with market standards. Fortinet is lacking in features in comparison to competitors."
"The solution lacks multi-language support."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the logging and reporting. Additionally, the next-generation application's policies should be improved. When they were released they had bugs."
"The integration with third-party tools may be something that they should work on."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"The biggest "gotcha" is that if the client purchases what they call the UTM shared bundle, which has unified threat management on both, it's not as easy to manage if you have more than one firewall."
"The solution’s technical support, DNS security and training could be improved."
"The costs are high."
"The only pain points we have had with it were when we did major version upgrades. Rather than being able to do incremental upgrades on those, we had to completely redeploy. I know that has changed recently, but we had some hiccups when we did the upgrades. This is the only issue we have had."
"The cost needs improvement as it is currently quite expensive."
"Check Point CloudGuard Network Security could improve by making it easier to configure."
"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 CloudGuard is not a feature-centric product because Check Point concentrates on security."
"The relationship between AWS and Check Point could be better. We had issues related to the type of instance and how it interconnects with AWS or cloud-native solutions. We overcame the pain points that we had, and now, AWS is evolving in a way that will facilitate how Check Point works. Our pain points were minimized, but they were there."
"The solution should improve its scalability because it cannot support enterprise networks."
"The product needs to improve its pricing."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"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."
"Once in a while, an unwanted email will slip in. You have to set your parameters to avoid that happening, but once in a while, an email has slipped past firewall. Once you update the firmware, you notice that it doesn't happen. If an email slips in, I get a little bit worried. I do get the report, but you just don't want that situation happening in the first place."
"The implementation policy needs improvment."
"In my experience the solution can be easier to configure with more documentation, we need more training."
"The price is obviously a more sensitive area to focus on."
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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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