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 stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"This solution has solid UTM features combined with a nice GUI."
"The ease of setting the solution up is a valuable aspect for us."
"The network security and cloud security are most valuable."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is the simple configuration."
"User-friendly and affordable security solution that's recommended for SMB customers. This solution has good technical support."
"We use the FortiGate Sandbox to detect zero-day vulnerabilities, such as anomalies or malware, that are unknown and have not yet been discovered."
"Its administrative panel is very intuitive and simple. It is simpler than the other solutions that we had. As an administrator, we are always looking for the easiest solution to manage network policies. We are able to filter everything on our network and also use the VPN feature, which is important these days when people are working remotely during COVID."
"The solution provides a centralized management console for easy administration and monitoring of security policies and events, making it easy for the security team."
"One of the main characteristics that Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has given us is granularity and visibility."
"It offers remarkable flexibility in how we configure and utilize the resources."
"The notifications, the visibility, and the deployment are the most valuable. It could be packaged in such a way that it took a lot of time and resources off our hands, so it was more efficient."
"Any kind of cloud environment anywhere can be protected through this effortlessly."
"It is a good-to-use tool that is also flexible."
"Monitoring using SmartConsole and all its features is extremely easy, and I find SmartEvent an excellent monitoring tool for spotting threats and user behaviour."
"Identity awareness, URL filtering, IDS, DLP, Content Filtering, VPN, and Application Control are all excellent."
"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 most valuable feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is the SD-WAN gateway."
"The product is a simple and user-friendly UTM that can handle accounting, reporting, firewall, IPS, and antivirus for industries."
"We consider the user level and control features of Sophos Cyberoam UTM to be the best."
"The solution is excellent for web and application filtering and remote access with the VPN."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"The reporting features are very good."
"The security capabilities are okay."
"Lacks sufficient security options."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"A sandbox would be good in order to be able to inspect the emails containing spam and be able to validate the emails that contain malware, prior to delivering to the customer."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve if it had a cloud-managed solution."
"The support system 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."
"Technical support is good but the response time could be faster."
"Fortinet needs more memory to save the log files. We need it to save the logs on the hardware and not in the cloud. I know this feature is available in FortiCloud, but if we need this log locally, it is not available."
"The initial deployment using the ARM template in Azure was straightforward, but migrating to Terraform added complexity, although we managed to make it work."
"It can be difficult to install properly without prior training"
"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."
"There is room for improvement in addressing bugs and support issues."
"The product needs to offer multi-tenancy."
"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."
"Documentation might become too complex or too spread out, especially for newcomers."
"The documentation could be much better."
"The policy is a bit too vague."
"The Traffic Discovery feature should allow administrators to disconnect unnecessary live connections."
"Sometimes, during part of the configuration, if you don't have a lot of technical knowledge, then you may struggle a bit to configure it."
"I would like to see a better content management pack and also the website searching should be better."
"The configuration requires an expert to be set up, so it could be made simpler."
"The technical support response time could be faster."
"The VPN needs to be improved."
"The product needs to improve its pricing."
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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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