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."Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"Fortigate is very scalable to serve our customers' needs. We have scaled already from fifty to more than a hundred instances of Fortinet FortiGate. Around 20 staff are required for deployment and maintenance, mostly engineers."
"You can create multiple Virtual Domains (VDOMs), which are treated as separate firewall instances."
"The most useful functionality of Fortinet FortiGate is the user interface, multiple engines, and their cloud with the latest integrations. Additionally, the Security Fabric tool is very good."
"Its stability is the most valuable."
"I like that they have given me a solution at a fair price."
"The virtual firewall feature is the most valuable. We have around 1,500 firewalls. We did not buy individual hardware, and the virtual firewalls made sense because we don't have to keep on buying the hardware. FortiGate is easier to use as compared to Checkpoint devices. It is user friendly and has a good UI. You don't need much expertise to work on this firewall. You don't need to worry much about DCLA, commands, and things like that."
"What's most important is the ease of use."
"The ease of administration with the cloud management extension and the cloud licensing model is valuable."
"Our clients choose CloudGuard as a natural progression of their solutions. They understand Microsoft and CloudGuard fits."
"Additionally, the centralized reporting and management, accessible through a single pane of glass, offer consistency and efficiency across multi-cloud environments."
"The most valuable feature is the centralized dashboard, which is used for managing all of the Check Point Security Gateways."
"One of the main characteristics that Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has given us is granularity and visibility."
"SSL/TLS traffic inspection features are used for advanced threat prevention against secure SSL traffic."
"The features of the solution which I have found most valuable are its flexibility and agility. It's a fully scalable solution, from our perspective. We can define scaling groups and, based on the load, it will create new instances. It's truly a product which is oriented toward the cloud mindset, cloud agility, and this is a great feature."
"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."
"The product, itself, doesn't seem to have any bugs or glitches."
"It is very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is a very strong product with good support."
"Content filtering, as this enables me to control that which employees can view at different time quotas."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"Technical support is excellent."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is the SD-WAN gateway."
"The tool is stable."
"They should improve high CPU and memory usage that occurs."
"Currently, without the additional reporting module, we only have access to basic reporting."
"At first glance, the interface for the device is very confusing."
"I would like to see improvements in the product's application rules."
"Some of the software stability could improve."
"Maybe they could make some features more accessible, such as a way to translate directions between two networks that share the same subnets."
"The customization could be improved. Cisco, for example, is much better at this. They need to work to be at least as good as they are."
"There are some license issues. Not every feature must have a separate license. There must be some of kind synergy between the license so we don't have to pay for every individual license that we would like to have."
"We utilize logging systems, and geolocation is crucial for us as some applications must only be accessible from our country. However, there have been occasional issues with this feature."
"Check Point has a history of moving fast with software release and upgrade cycles which are difficult to keep up with at times."
"A threat categorization system can be added to give users the authority to define vulnerable attacks and classify areas that can threaten the workflow system."
"At the cost level, the solution is somewhat expensive."
"As an administrator, I can say that among all of the Check Point products I have been working with so far, the Virtual Systems solution is one of the most difficult."
"The solution's integration with cloud providers has seen significant development in the past months, but there is room for improvement for better integration."
"New features have been introduced recently, but they have not yet been integrated into CloudGuard Vsec."
"In future releases, I would like to see the data loss prevention (DLP) feature could scale along with the virtual machine scale sets."
"There is a lot or room for improvement, because it is still not a fourth or fifth generation firewall. It lacks security features."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could have a more advanced reporting function."
"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."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"The reports need to be more detailed and granular."
"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 product had a hang issue. We needed to reboot, recreate the image, and reconfigure the previous image because the product hanged frequently."
"In my experience the solution can be easier to configure with more documentation, we need more training."
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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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