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 reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"A strong point of FortiGate is the graphical interface is complete and easy to use."
"The interface is very user-friendly and I like it very much."
"The web filtering feature and the intrusion protection system are the most valuable. It is a resilient appliance. I never had an issue with it in terms of any security breaches."
"Overall, the pricing of the solution is very good. The product offers good value."
"Advanced routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP, PBR). It gives you a seamless and simple integration into a large network."
"The main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"We have complete visibility of attacks originating from email including spear-phishing, spoofing, etc."
"The most valuable feature I have found in CloudGuard Network Security is the flexibility to rebuild the firewall as needed."
"I like how straightforward it is and simple it is to implement in the cloud."
"Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has a beautiful threat emulation different from the market."
"The solution has been quite stable."
"The ease of administration with the cloud management extension and the cloud licensing model is valuable."
"Now, we can filter which websites users can access and block categories that are a risk. For example, we can block social media and gambling sites. This has helped to decrease the risk of access to malicious content on the internet."
"The solution could improve to have a DLP feature."
"User and network policies to be managed on a single screen with powerful filtering and search options."
"The tool's robust features allow for the customization of policies, objects, and firewall settings."
"It is very easy to use."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Having a firewall solution with a data quota is very important when the bandwidth is limited, which really distinguishes it from other products."
"Good user interface."
"The main features I have found best are the load balancer and ease of use."
"The firewall feature has different branches, such as extended firewalls."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"The Wi-Fi controller needs a lot of improvement."
"Scalability for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be improved. SD-WAN security for this solution also needs some improvement."
"There are some complex administration tasks in their administration portal. That needs to be improved."
"There are mainly two areas of improvement in Fortinet FortiGate— the licensing cost and the timing of upgrading licenses for boxes."
"The setup is pretty complex and not easy to implement."
"We would like to see a better training platform implemented."
"The monitor and the visibility, in this proxy, is very weak."
"The user experience might suffer if we don't have the time to follow up with our clients and ensure they are using the right options. Clients also want more local support in Portuguese and Spanish during their normal business hours. That's something I hear from my customers and my team, too."
"I haven't used CloudGuard Network Security in the past couple of years as I moved out of the network security role. However, based on my previous experience, there were improvements, especially in in-place upgrades. Regarding cost, it might be potentially cheaper considering resource utilization in Azure and VM costs, but licensing could be improved, possibly moving towards a simpler model."
"This application can be more integrated with web application firewalls. Better integrations would provide more granularity, which would be helpful for focusing on the application itself and preventing attacks. It would be good to include the cross-domain search. If you have multiple firewalls that are managed on the same platform and you want to check who is using some particular objects or where a specific ID is being used, it should provide an option for this kind of search instead of having to check one by one on each firewall."
"We have Microsoft CASB cloud app security and it's one of the least compatible firewalls. They really need to look at this, as both Check Point and Microsoft are major players. Why aren't they compatible? If we had Palo Alto then we wouldn't have this problem."
"The solution's integration with cloud providers has seen significant development in the past months, but there is room for improvement for better integration."
"While today we can manage some scopes, there are still some segments in the OSI layer we cannot manage."
"The relationship between AWS and Check Point could be better. We had issues related to the type of instance and how it interconnects with AWS or cloud-native solutions. We overcame the pain points that we had, and now, AWS is evolving in a way that will facilitate how Check Point works. Our pain points were minimized, but they were there."
"It can be difficult to install properly without prior training"
"The data support response time should be improved."
"The VPN is an area that can be improved."
"The product needs to improve its pricing."
"Its scalability is not that great."
"The product is at its end-of-life. There is nothing to improve as it will be discontinued."
"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."
"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."
"The Traffic Discovery feature should allow administrators to disconnect unnecessary live connections."
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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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