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."A strong point of FortiGate is the graphical interface is complete and easy to use."
"Fortinet FortiGate is user-friendly and affordable."
"The solution is extremely reliable."
"Security, SD-WAN, and Streetscape are valuable features."
"It can expand easily."
"The feature I like most is the SD-WAN. It allows you to manage more than one ISP at the same time. And there is a high-availability mode, so if one of your ISPs is down, you still have a backup."
"FortiGate improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"The most valuable feature I have found in CloudGuard Network Security is the flexibility to rebuild the firewall as needed."
"We are using gateways, and I appreciate the high-availability gateways they have. They stand out more than the competitors."
"The multiple virtual firewalls on one box are extremely useful and the interconnection with virtual switches is simple and easy to understand."
"One of the main characteristics that Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has given us is granularity and visibility."
"Check Point CloudGuard technical support is good."
"It makes securing our cloud workload super easy, and we are able to push any sort of policy changes we need pretty quickly"
"It was very easy to install the solution, and the architecture meant we didn't have to worry about exceeding the solution's capacity."
"It is dynamic and agile, and its features and utilities continuously improve and evolve."
"The most valuable features are the firewall section, the VPN, and how you control live users."
"SD-WAN and IPSec features are valuable to me."
"You can geofence yourself if there is an incoming attack or a continuous ping from a company outside your country."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"Web and content filtering are valuable in preventing people from abusing the network and pushing up the bandwidth price."
"We are using it as a security shield. It does not allow access before that in case we have restricted a few things from users, so it helps me in that."
"The user interface is well laid out and understandable."
"Content filtering, as this enables me to control that which employees can view at different time quotas."
"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."
"Cisco Meraki products are rising very quickly in the cloud and the connected era. Meraki products offer much better ROI, upgradability, and manageability."
"We have an issue with hotel guest vouchers."
"There are some tiny bugs that sometimes affect the operations. In the past revision of it, there was a bug. Because of the bug, we had to downgrade the version. It happened only with the last revision."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"If they could extend their fabric towards other vendor environments for integration, that would be great."
"It should be more stable. There should be full integration within Fortinet products themselves as well as with other third-party products. Especially when you're not dealing with SIEM and the correlation of the security box, we want Fortinet to be able to share that information with as many other products as it can."
"I think they need to improve more in order to be a competitor with the leaders of the field."
"For major upgrades, it's still necessary to destroy the VMs and re-create them again. Doing that would mean new public IPs as well."
"From the policy optimization point of view, they can do better. This is not just for CloudGuard. CloudGuard is one little piece managed by Check Point. They can also integrate a third-party policy management solution to improve that. For example, Tufin is focused on policy optimization and management."
"Improvements needed include better integration with Azure features to match on-premises capabilities."
"The solution could improve to have a DLP feature."
"Its architecture and user interface need improvement. The user experience for this solution also needs to be improved, particularly in implementation, management, and operations."
"Check Point CloudGuard is not a feature-centric product because Check Point concentrates on security."
"The licensing structure is unclear, so a transparent and flexible licensing structure would be preferable."
"I haven't used CloudGuard Network Security in the past couple of years as I moved out of the network security role. However, based on my previous experience, there were improvements, especially in in-place upgrades. Regarding cost, it might be potentially cheaper considering resource utilization in Azure and VM costs, but licensing could be improved, possibly moving towards a simpler model."
"The blocking needs to be improved."
"The policy is a bit too vague."
"When it comes to web filtering and application filtering, it does not contain enough signatures to determine all of the sites that need to be blocked."
"The Traffic Discovery feature should allow administrators to disconnect unnecessary live connections."
"The product fails to provide proper reports, making it an area where improvements are required."
"On-box sandstorm should be available. As of now, it is from their cloud."
"The product strategy of the manufacturer is strange. I don't understand what they are doing in that regard."
"Smaller CR15 units don’t have a hard disc or built in IView software. These units could do with that feature."
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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, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, Cisco Secure Firewall and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, whereas Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Sophos UTM and SonicWall NSa. See our Check Point CloudGuard Network Security vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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