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."Centralized monitoring, policy management, and virtualized appliances allow us to take control over our public and private infrastructure."
"Customers are more inclined towards FortiGate because of application control, web filtering, and anti-spam features. The support from the FortiGate team is good, and price-wise, it is affordable."
"It blocks the vulnerabilities that can negatively impact us."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a scalable solution."
"The SD-WAN function is very developed. It has SD-WAN functionality with security features in one device. We can manage from one single console SD-WAN and the security policy."
"The initial installation is very straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is the VDOM, which allows the customer to have multiple firewalls in a single campus."
"The IPS is good. It protect my network from attackers."
"This solution has good scalability and stability."
"The features of the solution which I have found most valuable are its flexibility and agility. It's a fully scalable solution, from our perspective. We can define scaling groups and, based on the load, it will create new instances. It's truly a product which is oriented toward the cloud mindset, cloud agility, and this is a great feature."
"The ease of deployment has been nice. It is like managing any of our on-prem firewalls."
"The solution has been quite stable."
"Its centralized control, ease of use, and flexibility are the most valuable for our data center security."
"Auto-scaling and zero touch are valuable features."
"Monitoring using SmartConsole and all its features is extremely easy, and I find SmartEvent an excellent monitoring tool for spotting threats and user behaviour."
"The program is very stable."
"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."
"There are plenty of features that are valuable in the Sophos Cyberoam UTM. We use all the features, such as email Security, firewall rules, web server security, web devices, web protection."
"Good user interface."
"The product is easy to maintain."
"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 reporting features are very good."
"Its portal is user-friendly. I am able to manage the user data and access control through this device."
"Web and content filtering are valuable in preventing people from abusing the network and pushing up the bandwidth price."
"The solution is very expensive."
"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 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."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution. However, my issue is the performance only. When I use all the profiles, this affects the performance. From the beginning, I should have had a better sizing of the box."
"The initial setup and configuration are not intuitive and require training."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"I think they need to improve more in order to be a competitor with the leaders of the field."
"This application can be more integrated with web application firewalls. Better integrations would provide more granularity, which would be helpful for focusing on the application itself and preventing attacks. It would be good to include the cross-domain search. If you have multiple firewalls that are managed on the same platform and you want to check who is using some particular objects or where a specific ID is being used, it should provide an option for this kind of search instead of having to check one by one on each firewall."
"The documentation has been rough. Being able to do it yourself can be hit or miss given the constraints of the documentation."
"I would like to see more focus on east-west traffic inspection and AWS."
"The API integration is complex, which is an area that should be improved."
"The networking system updates, when delayed, can lead to misconfigurations and data loss."
"Improvements needed include better integration with Azure features to match on-premises capabilities."
"There is a limitation with the version upgrade. We are using version 81.10 and from what I understand, it is problematic to upgrade this version. I do not know if that is true."
"CloudGuard Network Security could be improved in the area of upgrading in place."
"The product strategy of the manufacturer is strange. I don't understand what they are doing in that regard."
"While the security features are excellent, they could be improved."
"There are some issues with logs and report limitations."
"We have had some issues with technical support, which is an area that needs improvement."
"The product needs to improve its pricing."
"There is a lot or room for improvement, because it is still not a fourth or fifth generation firewall. It lacks security features."
"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."
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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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