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 application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"FortiGate has a strong security topic which allows all of the Fortinet devices to communicate and share information which makes their security more powerful."
"The tool is a nice product and easy to handle. The software's user interface is also good. You can easily implement remote access in the solution."
"Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"Security, SD-WAN, and Streetscape are valuable features."
"The product is very stable, easy to troubleshoot, and configure, so it has reduced the time it takes for support."
"It is useful for protecting and segregating the internal networks from the internet. Most of our customers also use the FortiGate client to connect to their offices by using the VPN client, and of course, they usually activate the antivirus, deep inspection, and intrusion prevention services. They are also using it for web filtering and implementing various policies dealing with forwardings, NAT, etc."
"The ease of administration with the cloud management extension and the cloud licensing model is valuable."
"The tool's most valuable features are firewalls and IPS."
"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."
"It offers remarkable flexibility in how we configure and utilize the resources."
"The CloudGuard Network Security's most valuable feature is implementing IPS for accessing our data center and server environment in Azure. It helps us to prevent attacks. By protecting our environment with Check Point, which we were already familiar with, it provided a solution that extended into the cloud environment."
"I like the firewall and the virtual machine. I also like that it's compatible with Amazon Web Services and Azure."
"All the features that we subscribe to from CloudGuard NGTP are valuable. All the threat prevention and access control features give us the network security that we expect."
"The most valuable feature for us is the cluster support."
"User and network policies to be managed on a single screen with powerful filtering and search options."
"Web Filtering and Application Filtering saves a lot of my bandwidth and improves the user's productivity."
"The best feature is the flexibility the product offers, in terms of remote access. What we had before was a decentralized mechanism in our organization, but after having this product we were able to get the remote locations into the same LAN. We were able to control the bandwidth and were able to take virtual access of those machines and give them the support, as and when required."
"The tool is stable."
"All in one UTM appliance."
"I like Sophos Cyberoam UTM as a security component or device for organizations. Performance-wise, it's a satisfactory solution, and it works okay. It also has good features."
"It is very easy to use."
"The product is worth the investment."
"In the next release, maybe the documentation on how to use this solution could be improved."
"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."
"It would be nice if FortiGate incorporated some built-in endpoint protection features. I would also like a built-in SOC dashboard for managing multiple Fortinet firewalls."
"The monitor and the visibility, in this proxy, is very weak."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"It would be nice if backups could more easily migrate between different models."
"The reports are very basic."
"The sniffing packets or packet captures, can be simplified and improved because it's a little confusing."
"It is somewhat problematic in the area of the cloud."
"The operations require skilled manpower with extended experience of working with networking systems for better results."
"The solution's integration with cloud providers has seen significant development in the past months, but there is room for improvement for better integration."
"The networking system updates, when delayed, can lead to misconfigurations and data loss."
"Having a web UI in the VSX (or something similar) would be nice."
"The product needs to improve technical support."
"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 initial setup is difficult. It took me three tries to get it right. The setup took two or three hours."
"I would like to see real-time alerts on traffic insights."
"The reporting should be improved as well as the backup."
"The VPN needs to be improved."
"Technical support could be faster."
"The product needs to improve its pricing."
"Smaller CR15 units don’t have a hard disc or built in IView software. These units could do with that feature."
"The product had a hang issue. We needed to reboot, recreate the image, and reconfigure the previous image because the product hanged frequently."
"The product is at its end-of-life. There is nothing to improve as it will be discontinued."
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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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