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's a user-friendly firewall. Most of the tasks are very simple. It's simple to configure and troubleshoot this firewall."
"It is a good source for firewall protection."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the APIs. They are the most widely known."
"The scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate."
"The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"Fortinet FortiGate's ease of management is the most valuable feature."
"I really like the captive portal feature for our guest network. It has nice VLAN features in terms of separating our network. The anti-virus is also good."
"The wireless control is helpful."
"Now, we can filter which websites users can access and block categories that are a risk. For example, we can block social media and gambling sites. This has helped to decrease the risk of access to malicious content on the internet."
"The most valuable features are the VPN Blade, IPS Blade, the URL filtering, and the Applications Control Blade."
"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."
"It offers remarkable flexibility in how we configure and utilize the resources."
"This solution has good scalability and stability."
"It is scalable. It's a cloud solution, so it's easy to implement and manage."
"Advanced check prevention is a great feature that provides threat intelligence at speed."
"The solution's most valuable feature is scalability. We can increase the number of CPUs, memory, and firewall throughput easily. Using CloudGuard Network Security for managing cloud firewall rules is considered easier than using the normal security groups provided by Azure or AWS."
"There are plenty of features available, such as Full Guard and WAN."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is a very strong product with good support."
"Our customers find it economical and offers good security. These two features are key. Ease of installation and implementation are also key factors."
"We have never had to restart a firewall. The firewalls have all worked perfectly fine."
"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."
"The port forwarding is good."
"I find Sophos Cyberoam UTM very good. I like the feature of being able to block off Mac IDs that host users. For example, you have a Mac or Windows laptop and you created a hotspot. Other devices like mobiles and tablets e.g. iPads connected to that hotspot. We can block those devices that connected to the hotspot we created, only through Sophos. It's a good feature we didn't find in other UTMs."
"The solution works perfectly without any users."
"Backup can be improved."
"The room for improvement is about the global delivery time period. Usually I need to wait for almost one month to deliver it overseas. So if you can shorten the deliver time it'd be great."
"Some of the features in the graphical user interface do not work, which requires that we used the command-line-interface."
"Fortinet should focus on enhancing the capabilities of FortiGate by consolidating its various products, such as FortiGate Cloud, FortiManager, and FortiAnalyzer."
"You do need some IT knowledge in order to effectively work with the solution."
"The biggest "gotcha" is that if the client purchases what they call the UTM shared bundle, which has unified threat management on both, it's not as easy to manage if you have more than one firewall."
"Technical support for this solution can be improved."
"The solution lacks sufficient filtering."
"Its architecture and user interface need improvement. The user experience for this solution also needs to be improved, particularly in implementation, management, and operations."
"The documentation has been rough. Being able to do it yourself can be hit or miss given the constraints of the documentation."
"The product needs to improve technical support."
"We did not use the AWS Transit Gateway, and that's one of the things that we're currently using. I believe we will be working with Check Point again, in the near future, to implement it, once they start having proper support for a single customer with multiple accounts. When we were using them, we had to install Check Point on each and every single account."
"The product needs to improve support. They don't consider my case the number one priority even though I want a quick resolution."
"Its price is fair, but it can be more favorable."
"Check Point CloudGuard is not a feature-centric product because Check Point concentrates on security."
"CloudGuard Network Security could be improved in the area of upgrading in place."
"We have had some issues with technical support, which is an area that needs improvement."
"There is a lot or room for improvement, because it is still not a fourth or fifth generation firewall. It lacks security features."
"The VPN is an area that can be improved."
"I would like to see a better content management pack and also the website searching should be better."
"There are some issues with logs and report limitations."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could have a more advanced reporting function."
"Technical support could be faster."
"I don't know whether this will be included in an upgrade, but I would like to get the user utility, like seeing where the users are using more of the data."
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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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