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 security fabric is excellent."
"The customization potential is quite impressive."
"Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"The solution is stable."
"It is quite easy to handle."
"The scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate."
"The solution is highly scalable because they have devices that can handle a large amount of traffic."
"A strong point of FortiGate is that the graphical interface is complete and easy to use, especially if we think there is a list of operations that we are able to perform inside."
"Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has a beautiful threat emulation different from the market."
"The most valuable feature is threat prevention."
"The Identity Awareness blade and dynamic tagging in Azure are valuable because they make access management automatic. Instead of manually setting up access for each new resource, it happens automatically based on the same access policy. This dynamic setup is scalable."
"Its integration and use of features, such as advanced threat prevention, have helped us a lot with malware prevention and also with avoiding exposure to false positives."
"The scalability is very good; again, very user-friendly. I wouldn't even say "user-friendly" because, as long as you deploy it properly, you can kill an EC2 and it will spin up another one right away, within about a minute and a half. And it will be ready for production right away."
"The most valuable feature is the centralized dashboard, which is used for managing all of the Check Point Security Gateways."
"Identity awareness, URL filtering, IDS, DLP, Content Filtering, VPN, and Application Control are all excellent."
"The solution is reliable."
"The product has helped control bandwidth utilization, as well as enhanced connectivity and security to remote locations."
"In some circumstances, the malware functionality is the most important feature, and in other cases, some other features."
"The user interface is well laid out and understandable."
"Web application filtering eases internet access control."
"The solution works perfectly without any users."
"The firewall feature has different branches, such as extended firewalls."
"The solution has good load balancers."
"The product, itself, doesn't seem to have any bugs or glitches."
"It is stable, but its stability can be improved."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"There are SD-WAN network monitoring, SD-WAN features, Industrial Databases, Internet of Things, Detection, etc., however, we do have not licenses for those features. We thought that if you bought a product, you should have all of the features it offers. Why should you need to make so many extra purchases to enable features? They should have one price for the entire offering."
"The support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"Sometimes you do need to know some CLI commands, so it's a bit harder for technicians or new people that don't know it."
"The search tool needs improvement. It's very difficult to search for policies right now."
"The setup is pretty complex and not easy to implement."
"There are problems with the custom reporting of the unique traffic. The data is there, but it is too difficult for us to extract."
"Our biggest complaint concerns the high resource usage for IDP/IPS, as we cannot turn on all of the features even with new hardware."
"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."
"There is a limitation with the version upgrade. We are using version 81.10 and from what I understand, it is problematic to upgrade this version. I do not know if that is true."
"The product needs to improve support. They don't consider my case the number one priority even though I want a quick resolution."
"The solution lacks the capability to scale effectively."
"Greater automation would reduce the need for manual configuration and management."
"CloudGuard functions just like any other firewall. It functions very well. The only thing that could maybe be improved would be to integrate some tools that are not integrated with the SmartConsole, like the SmartView Monitor that we need to open on a different application to access."
"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 is at its end of life and some of the appliances are finishing."
"It should have better VPN protection. Some of the VPN applications are not blocked by this firewall. Some VPNs are able to get through this firewall, which is why I am planning to replace this firewall with a good one in the near future."
"The setup is a bit complex, so we needed help from a consultant."
"I would like to see real-time alerts on traffic insights."
"The technical support response time could be faster."
"The configuration requires an expert to be set up, so it could be made simpler."
"On-box sandstorm should be available. As of now, it is from their cloud."
"Network visibility is an area in the solution with shortcomings where improvements can be made."
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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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