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."It's super reliable. I don't think I've ever had a reliability issue with it."
"It is user friendly, and has all the features you need."
"The most valuable feature is the policy routing and application control."
"Fortinet FortiGate protects against internet-based threats, both internal and external. It is scalable, stable, easy to use, and easy to install."
"It's very easy to configure."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"The web filtering facility and application control are the most valuable features from the point of view of our clients. The VPN feature is also quite popular amongst our clients. Two-factor authentication is one of the good features in Fortinet. These features are important for the current scenario of security. Security has become a necessity nowadays. With cyber-attacks becoming more common, protecting an organization's data is one of the major tasks. It is also very stable and scalable, and it is very straightforward to configure. Their technical support is also good."
"It increases security posture and is helpful for firewall reporting, intrusion protection, web filtering, and SD-WAN implementation."
"The solution's most valuable feature is scalability. We can increase the number of CPUs, memory, and firewall throughput easily. Using CloudGuard Network Security for managing cloud firewall rules is considered easier than using the normal security groups provided by Azure or AWS."
"The product has allowed us to develop applications from the cloud - even with large environments and well-segmented security lines."
"It really is a pretty complete solution."
"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."
"Auto Scaling is one of the features that make me want to choose CloudGuard over actual HW."
"We consolidated from three management consoles and three clusters to only one, which is a big improvement."
"Check Point is one of the few solutions that pay attention to cloud security. Many others mostly focus on providing on-premises solutions."
"It's possible to sync the Check Point Management with the cloud portal, therefore allowing automated rules to be set in place whenever creating a new VM."
"The solution has good load balancers."
"The product is a simple and user-friendly UTM that can handle accounting, reporting, firewall, IPS, and antivirus for industries."
"The user interface is well laid out and understandable."
"We consider the user level and control features of Sophos Cyberoam UTM to be the best."
"The VPN is excellent on the solution."
"In some circumstances, the malware functionality is the most important feature, and in other cases, some other features."
"The most valuable feature is the solution is easy to configure for users."
"Technical support is excellent."
"One of the problems I was having was with user mapping, and it is an issue for which I have escalated tickets with Fortinet support."
"Fortinet currently has many products bundled with FortiGate including the basic firewall and load balancer, and I think that that they need to have separate product portfolios for each of these specialized services."
"Improvement is needed in the Web Filter quotas to restrict users with allocated quotas."
"In terms of what could be improved, the SD-WAN is quite difficult, because if you install the new box, 15 is okay, but if you change from an old configuration, if there is already configuration and a policy when you change to SD-WAN, you must change the whole policy that you see in the interface."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"From a reporting perspective, there's room for improvement. They're providing FortiAnalyzer through which one can get some enhancements, but the visibility and reporting still need slight improvement."
"Due to its higher cost, Fortinet FortiGate can lead to increased operational expenses."
"The routing capability on the FortiGate devices has room for improvement."
"We miss full blade support for all blades that are compatible with the cluster. Especially notable is the lack of support for Identity Awareness in active standby environments for customers. In our setup, transitioning to Connective clusters would be preferable for maintaining connections during failover situations."
"The complexity to deploy should be decreased."
"At the cost level, the solution is somewhat expensive."
"Check Point has a history of moving fast with software release and upgrade cycles which are difficult to keep up with at times."
"Check Point could show us use cases that would help us in Czech and could help us with security threats in our specific country."
"The solution could improve to have a DLP feature."
"Improvements needed include better integration with Azure features to match on-premises capabilities."
"The solution needs to support more hypervisors."
"We have had some issues with technical support, which is an area that needs improvement."
"The VPN is an area that can be improved."
"The product needs to improve its pricing."
"The setup is a bit complex, so we needed help from a consultant."
"The implementation policy needs improvment."
"The following could be improved: Web Filtering using wildcards; clarity regarding the firewall rules; granular reporting features."
"The blocking needs to be improved."
"Cyberoam configuration is done through the browser, which is one of the places that viruses spread."
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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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