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 blocks the vulnerabilities that can negatively impact us."
"This version is stable. I don't have any issues with this solution, in our environment, it works well."
"Their reliability and their policy of pre-shipping replacements when a unit has failed."
"Customers want to load balance more than eight lines or six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this."
"The most important features of Fortinet FortiGate are the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and firewall control applications."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the rules and quality of service."
"The technical support is great."
"The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"The solution is reliable."
"Advanced check prevention is a great feature that provides threat intelligence at speed."
"The solution helps protect network security by offering threat prevention, addressing vulnerabilities, and utilizing blades."
"This solution brings us closer to having a better security score, which helps us a lot in complying with information regulations based on security."
"It matches what we have on-prem. We kept the same management and the same functionality that we were having on-prem. It has simplified things for us because there is no new dashboard to touch."
"Workflows across the company ecosystem have can flow smoothly without experiencing any challenges."
"The IPS, application and URL filtering, as well as Identity Awareness, are all very valuable features."
"The solution has been quite stable."
"The solution is excellent for web and application filtering and remote access with the VPN."
"I believe it's the advanced security software that offers SMPP protection for the agent."
"Our customers find it economical and offers good security. These two features are key. Ease of installation and implementation are also key factors."
"The user interface is well laid out and understandable."
"We consider the user level and control features of Sophos Cyberoam UTM to be the best."
"Web Filtering and Application Filtering saves a lot of my bandwidth and improves the user's productivity."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is the SD-WAN gateway."
"It has been working fine. You just turn it on, and it works."
"Fortinet FortiGate can improve by integrating the web application firewall and the DDoS protection part of the solution. Having a WAF feature, web application firewall, and proxy together would be a good benefit."
"MTBF: Hardware failure is more common when compared to SonicWall or Cisco ASA."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"It needs to improve its ISP load balancing."
"We were not able to build a full-mesh VPN; however, I am not sure if this was the fault of Fortinet FortiGate."
"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."
"It would be ideal if they had some sort of GUI interface for troubleshooting and diagnostics."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"CheckPoint CloudGuard could be better at solving cases."
"Easier optimization techniques can definitely help with better performance of the OS, as using the vanilla software doesn't actually showcase the real capability of the software."
"CloudGuard functions just like any other firewall. It functions very well. The only thing that could maybe be improved would be to integrate some tools that are not integrated with the SmartConsole, like the SmartView Monitor that we need to open on a different application to access."
"The migration to TerraForm is a little more complicated, but we made it work."
"In the next release, including VRF support would be highly beneficial."
"The connection to the on-premises management requires using the CLI. It's not just a click, and you cannot edit in the management to prepare everything. You need to do it online and in real time. After that, you must execute a script, and then you should be happy that it appears in the management."
"Micro-Segmentation functionality for EAST-WEST traffic is not native and requires integration with a third-party OEM."
"The price of the solution could be reduced, it is expensive."
"The price is obviously a more sensitive area to focus on."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM has room for improvement in specific rules-based objects and redesign. The solution also needs to improve in adding rules and policies, including renewing and finding policies."
"The solution is at its end of life and some of the appliances are finishing."
"Sometimes, during part of the configuration, if you don't have a lot of technical knowledge, then you may struggle a bit to configure it."
"The following could be improved: Web Filtering using wildcards; clarity regarding the firewall rules; granular reporting features."
"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."
"I would like to see improvements in the development of reports. The process needs to be made simple."
"The documentation is not straightforward."
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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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