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 this solution is Quota."
"User-friendly and affordable security solution that's recommended for SMB customers. This solution has good technical support."
"FortiGate improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution."
"This solution has solid UTM features combined with a nice GUI."
"We can use our devices to check all of the perimeters. It secures email websites."
"The reporting and monitoring are very good."
"The management console is pretty simple, so anyone who understands networking can initially deploy the solution."
"The most valuable feature for us is the scale set, which allows us to scale horizontally, vertically and dynamically depending on the traffic load."
"The tool's most valuable features are IPS and blades. These features are valuable for security."
"Check Point CloudGuard is quick to deploy and easy for the customer to use."
"We find all the features valuable, particularly the firewall, application control, URL filtering, and HTTPS detection."
"The ease of deployment has been nice. It is like managing any of our on-prem firewalls."
"What's most valuable to me is that it's a contiguous solution that aligns well with the components that we've relied on and trusted from a traditional hardware, firewall, and unified threat management system. My engineers and analysts don't have to learn another platform. We have already entrusted our security controls to Check Point for perimeter and physical security, and now we can do so at the virtual layer as well, which is key to us."
"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."
"The tool's deployment is rapid. Its dashboard is also useful. It's easy to deploy both on-premises and in Azure. In an office with VMware running, deployment is a simple process. Similarly, in Azure, deployment is easy and scalable. Adding more CPUs is a straightforward task – just shut it down, modify the security, and restart. This ease of use translates into cost and resource savings, and faster deployment times."
"The solution is excellent for web and application filtering and remote access with the VPN."
"It is a VPN that serves all your needs as an application firewall."
"The user interface is well laid out and understandable."
"Web Filtering and Application Filtering saves a lot of my bandwidth and improves the user's productivity."
"Technical support is excellent."
"Web application filtering eases internet access control."
"The product, itself, doesn't seem to have any bugs or glitches."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"The logging details need to be improved."
"The reporting in Fortinet FortiGate could improve. Customers are having to purchase additional reporting components. When I have used the Sophos solution it is a complete solution, in Fortinet FortiGate you have to use additional tools to have the features needed."
"Some of the software stability could improve."
"If they had better integration with security products, such as Cisco ISE or Rapid Threat Containment, then it would be an improvement."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"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."
"The solution is very expensive."
"Check Point could show us use cases that would help us in Czech and could help us with security threats in our specific country."
"It is a very expensive program and there are additional costs despite the standard licensing fees."
"The solution is not that flexible when deploying on-prem."
"The product needs to improve technical support."
"Having a web UI in the VSX (or something similar) would be nice."
"Our biggest complaint concerns the high resource usage for IDP/IPS, as we cannot turn on all of the features even with new hardware."
"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 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."
"Network visibility is an area in the solution with shortcomings where improvements can be made."
"I have problems with the email filtering. Emails pass through without any filtering affecting them. When I get back to them and tell them this is the issue, they check everything and say it is not in their database signature and they have to update it. But you know, by that time, my user has already opened it."
"I had an issue when I was trying to stop a user from using too much bandwidth while I was using Azure, I was not able to stop them."
"In my experience the solution can be easier to configure with more documentation, we need more training."
"The product needs to improve its pricing."
"We use different workarounds and find different solutions for it, depending on the client's needs. We shouldn't have to, we should just be able to use the product as it comes with Cyberoam, rather than having to revert to other products."
"The reports need to be more detailed and granular."
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 5th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 119 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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