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."I am "headache free" that I don't have to categorize all the websites and that security has been pre categorized by the people, and that the services are getting updated. At least one part of my problem is over."
"The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable."
"The pricing is great and very reasonable."
"The most valuable feature is the FortiManager for centralized management."
"It's great for capturing the traffic and troubleshooting it."
"The solution is very easy to understand. It's not overly complex."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are it is one of the most mature firewalls in the UTM bundle."
"It improves the availability of engineers to carry out projects."
"The security configuration features have enhanced the reliable coordination of programs and data safety."
"The ease of deployment has been nice. It is like managing any of our on-prem firewalls."
"The CloudGuard Network Security's most valuable feature is implementing IPS for accessing our data center and server environment in Azure. It helps us to prevent attacks. By protecting our environment with Check Point, which we were already familiar with, it provided a solution that extended into the cloud environment."
"Check Point CloudGuard technical support is good."
"The solution could improve to have a DLP feature."
"Additionally, the centralized reporting and management, accessible through a single pane of glass, offer consistency and efficiency across multi-cloud environments."
"The most valuable feature I have found in CloudGuard Network Security is the flexibility to rebuild the firewall as needed."
"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 user interface is well laid out and understandable."
"Web application filtering eases internet access control."
"We consider the user level and control features of Sophos Cyberoam UTM to be the best."
"The firewall feature has different branches, such as extended firewalls."
"Web Filtering and Application Filtering saves a lot of my bandwidth and improves the user's productivity."
"User and network policies to be managed on a single screen with powerful filtering and search options."
"The product is worth the investment."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"The performance and speed are aspects of the solution that could always be improved upon."
"We were not able to build a full-mesh VPN; however, I am not sure if this was the fault of Fortinet FortiGate."
"Backup can be improved."
"One issue that I have had is that sometimes I need to monitor the traffic, so I need to filter it according to the user and which user is using it the most. I experience a bottleneck most of the time, particularly at the peak time when the number of contracts and users are at maximum."
"Fortinet currently has many products bundled with FortiGate including the basic firewall and load balancer, and I think that that they need to have separate product portfolios for each of these specialized services."
"It claims it does DLP, but the degree and level of controls are very basic."
"It can be a little bit more user-friendly in terms of policy definition and implementation. It seems a little bit complicated, and it could be simplified."
"The solution’s technical support, DNS security and training could be improved."
"Lacks the ability to integrate with other security solutions."
"At CPX, we heard that we can see all the things on the same platform. That is what we have been asking for, and hopefully, we are going to start seeing it this year."
"The stability of the solution could be improved, but this is the problem of all the solutions in the market. This isn't just a problem specific to Check Point."
"The deployment phase takes too much time."
"The API integration is complex, which is an area that should be improved."
"The documentation has been rough. Being able to do it yourself can be hit or miss given the constraints of the documentation."
"The complexity to deploy should be decreased."
"The configuration requires an expert to be set up, so it could be made simpler."
"In my experience the solution can be easier to configure with more documentation, we need more training."
"The price is obviously a more sensitive area to focus on."
"The Traffic Discovery feature should allow administrators to disconnect unnecessary live connections."
"Smaller CR15 units don’t have a hard disc or built in IView software. These units could do with that feature."
"While the security features are excellent, they could be improved."
"Once in a while, an unwanted email will slip in. You have to set your parameters to avoid that happening, but once in a while, an email has slipped past firewall. Once you update the firmware, you notice that it doesn't happen. If an email slips in, I get a little bit worried. I do get the report, but you just don't want that situation happening in the first place."
"The product had a hang issue. We needed to reboot, recreate the image, and reconfigure the previous image because the product hanged frequently."
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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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