We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall and Sophos Cyberoam UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."FortiGate is flexible and easy to use."
"It has improved our security capabilities."
"This is an easy solution to deploy."
"The solution has very good threat and content filtering switches."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"The most important features with FortiGate are the web filter and application controls. We can control our internet usage and use the web filter for application purposes."
"The wireless control is helpful."
"There are great templates, so you don't have to customize them if you don't want to. You do have the option to custom create some folders and some reports, however, with what is there, you don't really need to go through extra effort, as they already give you a lot of predefined views of reports and so forth."
"We moved from a legacy firewall to the ASA with FirePOWER, increasing our Internet Edge defense dramatically."
"Simple to deploy, stable."
"Cisco ASA NGFW significantly improves our bank. It protects any high-value products that we use from hackers, viruses, malware, and script-bots. It gives us metrics on network traffic as well as what kind of attacks we are getting from the outside."
"The most valuable feature for the customers is that they can control what communication is allowed and what is not allowed. That is, they can allow or deny client traffic."
"In v9.8 you are able to do active/backup HA with ASAv (Adaptive Security Virtual Appliance) deployed on MS Azure."
"The Firepower IPS, based on Snort technology, has an amazing detection engine and historical analysis capability of files that eases threat investigations a lot."
"It is easy to create interfaces and routing, which all can be done at the GUI level."
"We use the solution for deep packet inspection, Internet Edge functionality, IDS, and IDP."
"The performance has been good overall."
"The solution works perfectly without any users."
"There are plenty of features available, such as Full Guard and WAN."
"The tool's robust features allow for the customization of policies, objects, and firewall settings."
"The port forwarding is good."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"Content filtering, as this enables me to control that which employees can view at different time quotas."
"There are plenty of features that are valuable in the Sophos Cyberoam UTM. We use all the features, such as email Security, firewall rules, web server security, web devices, web protection."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"In the future, I would like to see improvements made to cloud-based management."
"The visibility of the network can be better. The GUI can be improved for better visibility of the network flow. Other solutions have better GUI in terms of network visibility."
"Scalability is one of the disadvantages. When it comes to scalability, you have to actually change the box. If you want to upgrade it, you need to actually change the existing box and probably you take the system off to other sites."
"The user interface could be improved to make it less confusing and easier to set up."
"I use the FortiGate 60D model and realized the 300Mbps bandwidth limitation. Because it is a product that offers many services, I think it could have greater bandwidth capacity."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"It needs to improve its ISP load balancing."
"The initial setup was complex."
"It should have packets, deep level inspections and controls, like the features which other IPS solutions used to have."
"Cisco's inspection visibility could be better."
"You shouldn't have to use the ASDM to help manage the client."
"Most of the time, when I try to run Java, it is not compatible with ASA's current operating systems."
"They should allow customers to talk to them directly instead of having to go through the reseller."
"Cisco Firepower is not completely integrated with Active Directory. We are trying to use Active Directory to restrict users by using some security groups that are not integrated within the Cisco Firepower module. This is the main issue that we are facing."
"The intelligence has room for improvement. There are some hackers that we haven't seen before and its ability to detect those types of attacks needs to be improved."
"Cyberoam UTM needs to have more certifications with third-parties, such as NSS Labs."
"There is a lot or room for improvement, because it is still not a fourth or fifth generation firewall. It lacks security features."
"The Traffic Discovery feature should allow administrators to disconnect unnecessary live connections."
"There needs to be more documentation that users can access to help them understand the solution or troubleshoot as necessary."
"In my experience the solution can be easier to configure with more documentation, we need more training."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could have a more advanced reporting function."
"Sophos VPN connectivity could be improved, as it can be lengthy, and users take longer to connect"
"Its scalability is not that great."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall writes "Highlights and helps us catch Zero-day vulnerabilities traveling across our network". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Cyberoam UTM writes "Stable and has a straightforward setup; reporting is fast and easy". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos UTM, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Sophos XG and Untangle NG Firewall. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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