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 main reason why I purchased the particular unit was that it had good reviews and what other people were saying as far as its completeness and its leading capabilities in terms of endpoint security was very good."
"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."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use. Anyone can easily maintain it."
"This version is stable. I don't have any issues with this solution, in our environment, it works well."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL VPN, as it allows us to connect and it separates this product from other firewalls."
"The most valuable feature is the FortiManager for centralized management."
"One of the valuable features is a standardized OS."
"It's great for capturing the traffic and troubleshooting it."
"Some retail customers find the scale-up and scale-down features valuable, particularly with scale sets. This is useful for handling increased loads on devices and utilizing firewalls, similar to on-premises setups with active standby configurations."
"Moving into the cloud without having to change a lot of our internal processes and retrain staff is one of the biggest benefits of this solution."
"Customers appreciate the CME plugin for automatically understanding assets within the cloud. This information appears in the manager, allowing users to tag the assets and adjust policies and rules accordingly."
"The tool's most valuable features are threat prevention and protection mechanisms."
"It matches what we have on-prem. We kept the same management and the same functionality that we were having on-prem. It has simplified things for us because there is no new dashboard to touch."
"I like how straightforward it is and simple it is to implement in the cloud."
"One of the main characteristics that Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has given us is granularity and visibility."
"The solution helps protect network security by offering threat prevention, addressing vulnerabilities, and utilizing blades."
"The dashboard is very good-looking and offers maximum features. If a customer's website has a problem, we can guide them over the phone because they can easily find the specific option on the dashboard. That's why we suggest buying Sophos."
"The solution is excellent for web and application filtering and remote access with the VPN."
"In some circumstances, the malware functionality is the most important feature, and in other cases, some other features."
"The product, itself, doesn't seem to have any bugs or glitches."
"You can geofence yourself if there is an incoming attack or a continuous ping from a company outside your country."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is a very strong product with good support."
"Its portal is user-friendly. I am able to manage the user data and access control through this device."
"It has been working fine. You just turn it on, and it works."
"To some degree, it's almost a question as to why some of this stuff isn't simpler. For example, for an AP deployment, while it's integrated, the number of steps that you have to go through in order to get the AP up, seems like a lot."
"Fortinet FortiGate should improve the VPN tokens."
"Quality control on their firmware versions needs improvement. When they introduce new firmware, there tend to be bugs."
"The cloud features and integration could be improved."
"The central management for the FortiGate Fortinet Firewall needs improvement. They have the manager to do the essential management for both SD-WAN and for the security policy. They should also improve the SD-WAN function."
"The solution lacks multi-language support."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"It is quite new for us, and we need to go more in-depth into the monitoring tools. It provides different features that we need to do what we want. So far, it is okay for us. In terms of improvement, in the future, they can provide a faster implementation of features. Some of the features are first available in other solutions. Fortinet sometimes takes a little bit longer than other solutions, such as Check Point, to implement new features."
"The product needs to offer multi-tenancy."
"They can improve their security features to the next advanced level so that their efficiency in catching the malware can become 100%, and there is no scope for any data loss or leakage from the system due to any issue."
"In the next release, including VRF support would be highly beneficial."
"In case the device is inaccessible due to some issue such as CPU or memory, there is no separate port or hardware partition provided for troubleshooting purposes."
"The memory and hard disk capability could be strengthened."
"There are some usability issues we'd like to see improved."
"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."
"It can be difficult to install properly without prior training"
"There are some issues with logs and report limitations."
"I would like to see improvements in the development of reports. The process needs to be made simple."
"The solution should improve its scalability because it cannot support enterprise networks."
"The reports need to be more detailed and granular."
"The blocking needs to be improved."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM has room for improvement in specific rules-based objects and redesign. The solution also needs to improve in adding rules and policies, including renewing and finding policies."
"The data support response time should be improved."
"The Traffic Discovery feature should allow administrators to disconnect unnecessary live connections."
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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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