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."It is a good source for firewall protection."
"It is very flexible to use."
"Initial setup is easy to configure."
"This is a quality product with ok support, and it is better than the competition we've tried."
"It is a safe product."
"It's very good and very stable for businesses. It works very well."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is the simple configuration."
"Mainly the FortiGate reporting system is very good. It guides us through all the expectations of security. Fortinet provides us all that we need for security. Also, Fortinet FortiGate is a next-generation firewall. It is much more advanced than others."
"Check Point has pretty simple solutions, like the virtual appliance which you just download and it is imported into VMware and you just start using it."
"The most valuable feature is threat prevention."
"It's possible to sync the Check Point Management with the cloud portal, therefore allowing automated rules to be set in place whenever creating a new VM."
"Auto Scaling is one of the features that make me want to choose CloudGuard over actual HW."
"Additionally, the centralized reporting and management, accessible through a single pane of glass, offer consistency and efficiency across multi-cloud environments."
"I find it really useful that CloudGuard supports all the main players on the Public Clouds market including AWS, GCP, and Azure, as well as some exotic ones like Alibaba Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and IBM Cloud."
"The most valuable feature is that we can use the same manager server that we use on our own Check Point firewalls. We integrated CloudGuard on that manager and we can use the same kind of protections that we use on the on-prem firewalls, like the IPS and antivirus policy. We can have the same kind of protection on the Cloud environment that we have on-premise."
"It is a good-to-use tool that is also flexible."
"You can geofence yourself if there is an incoming attack or a continuous ping from a company outside your country."
"It has been working fine. You just turn it on, and it works."
"The solution is excellent for web and application filtering and remote access with the VPN."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The most valuable features are the firewall section, the VPN, and how you control live users."
"The tool is stable."
"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 solution works perfectly without any users."
"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."
"They sometimes hide some features and if you want to enable them, you have to go in the CLI, enable the feature and configure it through the CLI. Customers, typically, like everything to be done by the GUI."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"With the addition of some features, it is possible that FortiGate can be used in all verticals."
"The support we receive when we need to upgrade is not satisfactory and has room for improvement."
"I would like to see a more intuitive dashboard."
"The solution could be more evenly structured."
"Zero touch removes any independence for configuring."
"The solution is not that flexible when deploying on-prem."
"Having a web UI in the VSX (or something similar) would be nice."
"I would like to see more focus on east-west traffic inspection and AWS."
"The initial setup was a bit complex."
"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."
"Micro-Segmentation functionality for EAST-WEST traffic is not native and requires integration with a third-party OEM."
"I want the upgrades of their CloudGuard solution to major versions to be easier. We have had a few small hiccups. They have different types of cloud clusters called Geo Clusters, and those just cannot be upgraded past a certain point, which is a hurdle that we are currently experiencing."
"There needs to be more documentation that users can access to help them understand the solution or troubleshoot as necessary."
"Technical support could be faster."
"Its scalability is not that great."
"Cyberoam UTM needs to have more certifications with third-parties, such as NSS Labs."
"The product strategy of the manufacturer is strange. I don't understand what they are doing in that regard."
"Sometimes, users are timed out intermittently."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could improve by adding VPN site-to-site capabilities. The correct version does not work with Microsoft Azure Cloud."
"The blocking needs to be improved."
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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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