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 license management is very valuable. You can get a new license each year, or you can enroll every two to four years. You can get the logs, and you will get the information on the risk in your network and the entire organization. With this information, you can take action on your actives, computers, or devices. You can bring your own device as an SSE."
"FortiGate improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"The most valuable feature is the interface, which is very user friendly. We are utilizing most of the features, like content filtering. The firewall is powerful."
"Fortinet FortiGate's reliability is valuable."
"The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The SD-WAN is the most valuable feature."
"We can use our devices to check all of the perimeters. It secures email websites."
"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."
"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."
"It is dynamic and agile, and its features and utilities continuously improve and evolve."
"The feature most valuable to me is the NDTX blade that Check Point provides, and I like how the solution is not vulnerable."
"The capability to auto-scale in or out, depending on the resource demand is great."
"We consolidated from three management consoles and three clusters to only one, which is a big improvement."
"The 24/7 online customer support services enhance effective operations and provide quick services in case of a system failure."
"The solution is easier to manage than an on-premise firewall. It is easy to manage. The use of dynamic objects for these gateways made it easy to create the right rules and the right policies. Integration with Azure is also easy where we have to just add the subnets. In an on-premise setup, we have to add everything from scratch. We can automate a lot of actions."
"The most valuable feature of this product is the threat protection."
"Having a firewall solution with a data quota is very important when the bandwidth is limited, which really distinguishes it from other products."
"You can geofence yourself if there is an incoming attack or a continuous ping from a company outside your country."
"It is very easy to use."
"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."
"Cyberoam UTM's most valuable feature is that it can be configured any way you like."
"Web and content filtering are valuable in preventing people from abusing the network and pushing up the bandwidth price."
"I think that the infrastructure for the VPN could be improved. The way that it is bundled also made it difficult to use and sell as it is too expensive."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"I think there could be more QoS features"
"The user interface could be improved."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"Its customer service could be better."
"The visibility of the network can be better. The GUI can be improved for better visibility of the network flow. Other solutions have better GUI in terms of network visibility."
"We did not use the AWS Transit Gateway, and that's one of the things that we're currently using. I believe we will be working with Check Point again, in the near future, to implement it, once they start having proper support for a single customer with multiple accounts. When we were using them, we had to install Check Point on each and every single account."
"Check Point CloudGuard is not a feature-centric product because Check Point concentrates on security."
"The networking system updates, when delayed, can lead to misconfigurations and data loss."
"What I would like for future updates would be faster updates to apply, and perhaps a greater presence in the local language for the regions of Latin America."
"The solution is not that flexible when deploying on-prem."
"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 documentation could be much better."
"Check Point support, beyond CloudGuard, does need some improvement."
"The reporting part could be more user-friendly for troubleshooting and identifying network issues. It should be more easy for a normal user to identify the problem in their network."
"Its scalability is not that great."
"Needs a mail alert/notification when the device loses any of its connections, during ISP redundancy implementation."
"There are some issues with logs and report limitations."
"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 solution's pricing could be a problem for some small businesses."
"It should have a better VPN client. We decided to find something different than Cyberoam because of the VPN client software. It would be nice to have a user interface not only in English but also in different languages."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could improve by adding VPN site-to-site capabilities. The correct version does not work with Microsoft Azure Cloud."
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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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