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 GUI is good."
"The most important features of Fortinet FortiGate are the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and firewall control applications."
"Reliability is the best feature. We faced some issues when we were setting it up, but the service, portal, and administration are good."
"The inspection and web security features are most valuable."
"I like several features that this product has, such as antivirus and internet navigation inspection. It is also simple to use."
"Virtual Domains (VDOMs) are a feature that we found valuable."
"Easy to implement, and it is also reliable."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of configuration."
"This solution brings us closer to having a better security score, which helps us a lot in complying with information regulations based on security."
"We have complete visibility of attacks originating from email including spear-phishing, spoofing, etc."
"The tool's most valuable features are threat prevention and protection mechanisms."
"The most valuable feature is threat prevention."
"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 most valuable feature I have found in CloudGuard Network Security is the flexibility to rebuild the firewall as needed."
"The product gives analytic reports."
"Workflows across the company ecosystem have can flow smoothly without experiencing any challenges."
"I believe it's the advanced security software that offers SMPP protection for the agent."
"Web and content filtering are valuable in preventing people from abusing the network and pushing up the bandwidth price."
"It is a VPN that serves all your needs as an application firewall."
"All in one UTM appliance."
"I found that the best feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is reporting. Its reporting feature is excellent, fast, and easy to prep and launch."
"The tool's robust features allow for the customization of policies, objects, and firewall settings."
"The performance has been good overall."
"The dashboard is very good-looking and offers maximum features. If a customer's website has a problem, we can guide them over the phone because they can easily find the specific option on the dashboard. That's why we suggest buying Sophos."
"The feature which gives us a lot of pain is ASIC architecture."
"There are mainly two areas of improvement in Fortinet FortiGate— the licensing cost and the timing of upgrading licenses for boxes."
"The solution needs to improve its integration with cybersecurity."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the protection, it did not prevent us from being attacked. Additionally, Fortinet FortiGate could provide more features for WAF devices. I should not have to purchase two solutions, it would be a benefit to combine these features into one solution."
"There are some cloud-based features that could be much more flexible than they currently are."
"If they had better integration with security products, such as Cisco ISE or Rapid Threat Containment, then it would be an improvement."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"When upgrading the firewall, the old VPC containing the firewalls needs to be destroyed. After that, a new firewall is redeployed in the setup. Additionally, there's a need to separate the routing, and the routing from the old VPC has to be recreated in the new one."
"Check Point CloudGuard Network Security should give productive reports as per business requirements. It needs to improve support since the time-limit extended beyond a day. It should include more seamless API integrations."
"The cost is relatively high compared to the cost of other products in the market."
"The documentation could be much better."
"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 biggest room for improvement is that, for a long time now, they've moved everything over to R80 but they still maintain some of the stuff in the old dashboard. They need to "buy in" and move everything to the modern dashboard so that you don't have to go to one place and to another place, at times, to configure the environment. It's time they just finish what they started and put everything in the new, modern dashboard."
"The solution's integration with cloud providers has seen significant development in the past months, but there is room for improvement for better integration."
"We have Microsoft CASB cloud app security and it's one of the least compatible firewalls. They really need to look at this, as both Check Point and Microsoft are major players. Why aren't they compatible? If we had Palo Alto then we wouldn't have this problem."
"The reports need to be more detailed and granular."
"We use different workarounds and find different solutions for it, depending on the client's needs. We shouldn't have to, we should just be able to use the product as it comes with Cyberoam, rather than having to revert to other products."
"Cyberoam UTM needs to have more certifications with third-parties, such as NSS Labs."
"Smaller CR15 units don’t have a hard disc or built in IView software. These units could do with that feature."
"I have problems with the email filtering. Emails pass through without any filtering affecting them. When I get back to them and tell them this is the issue, they check everything and say it is not in their database signature and they have to update it. But you know, by that time, my user has already opened it."
"The solution had a feature to import users from a CSV file. However, the latest version does not have that option."
"The implementation policy needs improvment."
"There needs to be more documentation that users can access to help them understand the solution or troubleshoot as necessary."
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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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