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 features of Fortinet FortiGate are it is one of the most mature firewalls in the UTM bundle."
"The feature I like most is the SD-WAN. It allows you to manage more than one ISP at the same time. And there is a high-availability mode, so if one of your ISPs is down, you still have a backup."
"The payment function for applications is good."
"Fortinet FortiGate's reliability is valuable."
"The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"Its administrative panel is very intuitive and simple. It is simpler than the other solutions that we had. As an administrator, we are always looking for the easiest solution to manage network policies. We are able to filter everything on our network and also use the VPN feature, which is important these days when people are working remotely during COVID."
"Good performance, stability, and virtual domain ability."
"What's most important is the ease of use."
"Check Point CloudGuard is quick to deploy and easy for the customer to use."
"SSL/TLS traffic inspection features are used for advanced threat prevention against secure SSL traffic."
"I like the tool's ability to manage cloud traffic locally without routing it through our data centers."
"The multiple virtual firewalls on one box are extremely useful and the interconnection with virtual switches is simple and easy to understand."
"We have complete visibility of attacks originating from email including spear-phishing, spoofing, etc."
"It's a high-performance device. The network performance is also really good. We check how much time it takes for the servers. Our network performance has increased since using this solution."
"Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has a beautiful threat emulation different from the market."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring. We can easily monitor what kind of stuff comes over to our network and we can then check the dashboard and work accordingly."
"There are plenty of features available, such as Full Guard and WAN."
"The solution is easy to use."
"In some circumstances, the malware functionality is the most important feature, and in other cases, some other features."
"The solution's web filtering is an important feature for us in our company."
"The solution's interface is user-friendly, and the web protection is good. The tool is highly stable. The product is scalable. The technical support is good. We chose Sophos Cyberoam UTM because their focus on security research is higher compared to other brands. It's an all-in-one solution with antivirus, EDR, wireless protection, and web protection integrated into one box. The initial setup was straightforward."
"Web and content filtering are valuable in preventing people from abusing the network and pushing up the bandwidth price."
"The most valuable feature is the solution is easy to configure for users."
"All in one UTM appliance."
"I would suggest that Fortinet add sandboxing to their solution."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"The solution can have more features in a single box that can be multi-applied to integrate everything."
"In the next release, maybe the documentation on how to use this solution could be improved."
"There aren't really any negative aspects to discuss."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"There is one big configuration file with no separations for the unique VDOMs. Maybe they could separate individual VDOM configuration files with the root VDOM configuration file referencing the individual VDOM config files."
"Some configuration elements cannot be easily altered once created."
"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."
"CloudGuard Network Security could be improved in the area of upgrading in place."
"There is room for improvement, especially concerning the integration with the management center. It would be beneficial if tasks that currently require scripts could be performed directly from the GUI."
"The initial deployment using the ARM template in Azure was straightforward, but migrating to Terraform added complexity, although we managed to make it work."
"The business and product development team should introduce a high-end feedback collection mechanism and analyze the customer requirements constructively."
"The memory and hard disk capability could be strengthened."
"The price of the solution could be reduced, it is expensive."
"The cost needs improvement as it is currently quite expensive."
"Hence, it needs to be easier to configure rules using the solution."
"The policy is a bit too vague."
"The price is obviously a more sensitive area to focus on."
"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."
"VPN configuration is not very swift."
"The product needs to improve its pricing."
"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."
"The product fails to provide proper reports, making it an area where improvements are required."
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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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