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."Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features are ease of use, flexibility, and most of the configuration we can be done using the GUI. When we compare Fortinet FortiGate with other solutions the firewall policy are very easy to understand."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the rules and quality of service."
"Anti-Spam web content filterinG."
"The solution can scale well."
"The FortiGate controls the user's activities and maximizes my bandwidth use overall."
"I like several features that this product has, such as antivirus and internet navigation inspection. It is also simple to use."
"The technical support in our region is excellent."
"We are a visual effects company, and there have been a number of high profile security issues in our industry. This has brought us to a higher standard of security, which our clients are very keen on these days."
"The solution is easier to manage than an on-premise firewall. It is easy to manage. The use of dynamic objects for these gateways made it easy to create the right rules and the right policies. Integration with Azure is also easy where we have to just add the subnets. In an on-premise setup, we have to add everything from scratch. We can automate a lot of actions."
"The IPS, application and URL filtering, as well as Identity Awareness, are all very valuable features."
"Moving into the cloud without having to change a lot of our internal processes and retrain staff is one of the biggest benefits of this solution."
"I like how straightforward it is and simple it is to implement in the cloud."
"The SSL spectrum proved to be the most valuable for our incoming connections."
"It offers remarkable flexibility in how we configure and utilize the resources."
"The easy management of the policies is great for us because we are a small team and having easy management is great and useful for us."
"Some retail customers find the scale-up and scale-down features valuable, particularly with scale sets. This is useful for handling increased loads on devices and utilizing firewalls, similar to on-premises setups with active standby configurations."
"The main features I have found best are the load balancer and ease of use."
"The most valuable feature is the solution is easy to configure for users."
"The solution's web filtering is an important feature for us in our company."
"SD-WAN and IPSec features are valuable to me."
"All in one UTM appliance."
"We are using it as a security shield. It does not allow access before that in case we have restricted a few things from users, so it helps me in that."
"The most valuable features are the firewall section, the VPN, and how you control live users."
"It has been working fine. You just turn it on, and it works."
"It should have a better pricing plan. It is too expensive. It should also have a more granular view of the attack. I don't have FortiAnalyzer, and it is difficult for me to have a complete view when there is an attack on my server."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"The routing capability on the FortiGate devices has room for improvement."
"Currently, without the additional reporting module, we only have access to basic reporting."
"If they had better integration with security products, such as Cisco ISE or Rapid Threat Containment, then it would be an improvement."
"Backup can be improved."
"Fortinet already improved FortiGate, but in the current market, many brands of security devices have improved together. Fortinet still needs to catch up with market standards. Fortinet is lacking in features in comparison to competitors."
"Fortigate's hardware capacities could be improved."
"Its architecture and user interface need improvement. The user experience for this solution also needs to be improved, particularly in implementation, management, and operations."
"While today we can manage some scopes, there are still some segments in the OSI layer we cannot manage."
"CloudGuard Network Security could be improved in the area of upgrading in place."
"The costs are high."
"The initial setup is complex and could be made simpler."
"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."
"Our biggest complaint concerns the high resource usage for IDP/IPS, as we cannot turn on all of the features even with new hardware."
"The solution's integration with cloud providers has seen significant development in the past months, but there is room for improvement for better integration."
"I don't know whether this will be included in an upgrade, but I would like to get the user utility, like seeing where the users are using more of the data."
"Cyberoam UTM needs to have more certifications with third-parties, such as NSS Labs."
"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 VPN needs to be improved."
"Needs a mail alert/notification when the device loses any of its connections, during ISP redundancy implementation."
"When it comes to web filtering and application filtering, it does not contain enough signatures to determine all of the sites that need to be blocked."
"There is a lot or room for improvement, because it is still not a fourth or fifth generation firewall. It lacks security features."
"The blocking needs to be improved."
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 5th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 112 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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