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 integration with Active Directory is one of the good features. Most of the customers are now looking for the Single Sign-on feature. So, being able to integrate Active Directory with the firewall is useful. It is also easy."
"Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"It's very good and very stable for businesses. It works very well."
"The management console is pretty simple, so anyone who understands networking can initially deploy the solution."
"Centralized monitoring, policy management, and virtualized appliances allow us to take control over our public and private infrastructure."
"The stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"Their reliability and their policy of pre-shipping replacements when a unit has failed."
"The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"The tool's most valuable features are the REST APIs that help to automate the deployment and maintenance process. It helps us to reduce time to 15-25 minutes compared to the manual process which used to take around two to three hours."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring. We can easily monitor what kind of stuff comes over to our network and we can then check the dashboard and work accordingly."
"The SSL spectrum proved to be the most valuable for our incoming connections."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"Security effectiveness is the most valuable feature. Operational efficiency, reporting, and support are also good."
"The endpoint VPN is super stable. The routing is also very good. We tried a competing product first, but we could not make it work. We came across CloudGuard. The network routing across different virtual networks in Azure and AWS was way ahead of any of the other technologies. That helped us be able to cover the whole network using one single cluster."
"It is a good-to-use tool that is also flexible."
"The ease of administration with the cloud management extension and the cloud licensing model is valuable."
"The most valuable feature of this product is the threat protection."
"We consider the user level and control features of Sophos Cyberoam UTM to be the best."
"In terms of features and user-friendliness, the solution is good. It’s very stable. The solution is scalable. In Sophos Cyberoam UTM, the most valuable features are web and application filtering, routing functionalities, and VPN. It has helped us manage the bandwidth."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"I like Sophos Cyberoam UTM as a security component or device for organizations. Performance-wise, it's a satisfactory solution, and it works okay. It also has good features."
"Web application filtering eases internet access control."
"The solution works perfectly without any users."
"I found that the best feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is reporting. Its reporting feature is excellent, fast, and easy to prep and launch."
"Fortinet doesn't provide multiple virtual firewalls which would facilitate end users and customers."
"Scalability for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be improved. SD-WAN security for this solution also needs some improvement."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"Monitoring and reporting could be better."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"I feel that the reporting needs to be improved."
"Tunnel flapping was one of the major things I had seen wherein your internet link remains but your VPN tunnel is down. However, since I got a fix from the TAC team, I have not noticed it, but the customer complained a few times that they couldn't access the internet because of this problem."
"NGN, reporting and controls."
"There is room for improvement in addressing bugs and support issues."
"We utilize logging systems, and geolocation is crucial for us as some applications must only be accessible from our country. However, there have been occasional issues with this feature."
"In the past year, I noticed that the challenging part, especially in the cloud, is upgrading to the next release of the firewall. Unlike on-premise upgrades, it's not as simple in the cloud. You need to recreate the machine, which makes the process more complex."
"Check Point support, beyond CloudGuard, does need some improvement."
"Documentation might become too complex or too spread out, especially for newcomers."
"The only pain points we have had with it were when we did major version upgrades. Rather than being able to do incremental upgrades on those, we had to completely redeploy. I know that has changed recently, but we had some hiccups when we did the upgrades. This is the only issue we have had."
"There is room for improvement, especially concerning the integration with the management center. It would be beneficial if tasks that currently require scripts could be performed directly from the GUI."
"The connection to the on-premises management requires using the CLI. It's not just a click, and you cannot edit in the management to prepare everything. You need to do it online and in real time. After that, you must execute a script, and then you should be happy that it appears in the management."
"The Traffic Discovery feature should allow administrators to disconnect unnecessary live connections."
"On-box sandstorm should be available. As of now, it is from their cloud."
"The configuration requires an expert to be set up, so it could be made simpler."
"The technical support response time could be faster."
"Hence, it needs to be easier to configure rules using the solution."
"The data support response time should be improved."
"Smaller CR15 units don’t have a hard disc or built in IView software. These units could do with that feature."
"Cyberoam UTM needs to have more certifications with third-parties, such as NSS Labs."
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 5th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 120 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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