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."One of the valuable features is a standardized OS."
"The GUI is good."
"The UTM feature is quite good. FortiAP is easy to deploy because both Fortigate and FortiAP are under the same brand. Otherwise, you need to do more work on the configuration."
"The interface is very good."
"The IPS is good. It protect my network from attackers."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use. Anyone can easily maintain it."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is Quota."
"UTM/NGFW features and FortiCloud for logs and backups are awesome."
"The tool's most valuable features are firewalls and IPS."
"The product gives analytic reports."
"The solution has been quite stable."
"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."
"It is scalable. It's a cloud solution, so it's easy to implement and manage."
"The ease of deployment has been nice. It is like managing any of our on-prem firewalls."
"It is dynamic and agile, and its features and utilities continuously improve and evolve."
"It offers remarkable flexibility in how we configure and utilize the resources."
"In some circumstances, the malware functionality is the most important feature, and in other cases, some other features."
"The firewall feature has different branches, such as extended firewalls."
"The solution has good load balancers."
"Good user interface."
"User and network policies to be managed on a single screen with powerful filtering and search options."
"I believe it's the advanced security software that offers SMPP protection for the agent."
"I'm more inclined towards the conventional firewall. So for me, I'm more geared towards the standard firewall type functionalities as well as the web application firewall because that seems to work fine."
"The user interface is well laid out and understandable."
"It is stable, but its stability can be improved."
"One area for improvement is the performance on bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"The firmware needs improvement because there are bugs when a new release comes through. Sometimes, the configuration changes, and it's a bit harder to see where the fail is. The first time that you have the firmware, it tends to have some issues, and it's better to wait a bit to update the equipment."
"Fortinet FortiGate can be integrated with different platforms. They have integrations in place, but I can't say they're 100%."
"The solution lacks sufficient filtering."
"I could not configure sFlow from the FortiGate graphical user interface. I realized that the sFlow configuration is available only from the CLI, and discovered that sFlow is not supported on virtual interfaces, such as VDOM links, IPsec, or GRE."
"In the next release, I would like to see the interface simplified to be more user-friendly."
"The platform's interface could improve."
"The solution needs to support more hypervisors."
"Most clients nowadays tend to move to the cloud and their data security is key. If CloudGuard could be able to give the client that full visibility of how their data is protected on the cloud, then that would be a great selling point for Check Point."
"The user interface can be improved."
"The management console can be simplified because at the moment, it is a bit of a challenge to use."
"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."
"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 deployment phase takes too much time."
"We have the product deployed on Azure China. One crucial concern is the version limitation; unfortunately, in Azure China, we are restricted to running version R80. Our architecture has a Load Balancer, VMSS CloudGuard, etc. The duplication in this setup prevents the application from seeing the original client IP. This poses a problem for certain applications that require the original IP for login purposes. Although we managed a workaround with a different architecture involving a WAF, it is not as straightforward as the standard Azure setup."
"Network visibility is an area in the solution with shortcomings where improvements can be made."
"The solution is at its end of life and some of the appliances are finishing."
"The product needs to improve its pricing."
"We have had some issues with technical support, which is an area that needs improvement."
"The Traffic Discovery feature should allow administrators to disconnect unnecessary live connections."
"The VPN is an area that can be improved."
"The technical support response time could be faster."
"While the security features are excellent, they could 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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