We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall and Sophos 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."Customers want to load balance more than eight lines or six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this."
"Provides good firewall security and has great VPN features."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the APIs. They are the most widely known."
"The web tutor and automatic rules by schedule are good features."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the different types of profiling. It has been the most effective for me. The WAF and the antivirus profile are the most effective in network protection."
"Easy to implement, and it is also reliable."
"The solution can scale well."
"The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"In v9.8 you are able to do active/backup HA with ASAv (Adaptive Security Virtual Appliance) deployed on MS Azure."
"The TAC is always very helpful. We pay for Tier 1 support, so we get whatever we need from them. They always give us a solution. If they can't give us an answer that day, they get back to us within at least 24 hours with a solution or fix. I have never had a problem with the TAC. I would rate them as 10 out of 10."
"We found the initial setup to be easy."
"At this point, we find that this product has high productivity and high availability and there is no need for improvement."
"The feature my customers find the most valuable is the exportability."
"It is much better than most of the other firewalls that I have worked with."
"The initial setup is easy."
"I have found the stability of this solution really good. This is why I use it."
"The features that I've known to be most valuable are both the web security features as well as the web firewall capabilities. As a partner of Sophos firewall, we have some clients and they are using Sophos firewall UTM and we are using it as well."
"It allows our developers to be able to securely log into servers to deploy and manage software."
"The UTM features are reasonably strong and the patterns are updated on a regular basis"
"What I like about Sophos UTM is that it improves my company's security. The solution is easy to set up, which I like, and it's very stable."
"It's easy to use."
"It has helped by identifying threats within the company. If there are computers or servers that are compromised, then we are able to identify them right away in the system."
"The solution is scalable."
"This is a very stable product."
"The customization could be improved. Cisco, for example, is much better at this. They need to work to be at least as good as they are."
"The scalability could be better."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"One area for improvement is the performance on bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"They should improve the interface to make it more user-friendly."
"Due to its higher cost, Fortinet FortiGate can lead to increased operational expenses."
"The web-cache feature which was previously on the FortiGate device, but was deleted with the recent upgrade should be returned. It was a very valuable feature for us."
"Maybe they could make some features more accessible, such as a way to translate directions between two networks that share the same subnets."
"The product's user interface is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The reporting and other features are nice, but there is an issue with applying the configuration. That part needs some improvement."
"The SSL VPN is, and always has been, painful to configure and the Java plugin does not guarantee a uniform deployment."
"Cisco ASA is not a next-generation firewall product."
"If I need to download AnyConnect in a rush, it will prompt me for my Cisco login account. Nobody wants to download a client to a firewall that they don't own."
"Cisco Secure Firewall's integration with cloud providers has room for improvement. We could do more in terms of integration, for example, if we had a tag on an instance."
"One of the problems that we have had is the solution requires Java to work. This has caused some problems with the application visibility and control. When the Java works, it is good, but Java wasn't a good choice. I don't like the Java implementation. It can be difficult to work with sometimes."
"It is not the newest, cutting-edge technology"
"It would be nice if it had basic features, such as DLP (Data Loss Prevention)."
"Sophos should improve its ability to check something like bandwidth consumption for users or something more real-time."
"Sophos customer support could use some improvement."
"When we call support, we get put on hold for a long time."
"The support could be better."
"Doesn't provide antivirus for individual computers."
"The reporting system needs to allow for customizations because many reports do not include details that we expect."
"Last year, Sophos had some major internal management changes that negatively impacted their support."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. 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 UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and SonicWall NSa, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Untangle NG Firewall. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Sophos UTM report.
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