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 features that I have found most valuable are that it is good to use, and most importantly, the pricing. The customer especially likes the discount when they trade up or something like that."
"I like how we can achieve total integration."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"The solution can scale well."
"I like several features that this product has, such as antivirus and internet navigation inspection. It is also simple to use."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are it is one of the most mature firewalls in the UTM bundle."
"The most valuable features are that it is very simple to configure and to manage."
"All of the features of Fortinet FortiGate are useful and the security protection is good."
"Check Point CloudGuard is quick to deploy and easy for the customer to use."
"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."
"The solution helps protect network security by offering threat prevention, addressing vulnerabilities, and utilizing blades."
"Check Point is one of the few solutions that pay attention to cloud security. Many others mostly focus on providing on-premises solutions."
"We are using gateways, and I appreciate the high-availability gateways they have. They stand out more than the competitors."
"The main benefit of the Check Point Virtual Systems solution is its ability to split up the hardware appliances that we have into several logical, virtual devices with separate traffic handling policies, as well as the switching and routing."
"I like the tool's ability to manage cloud traffic locally without routing it through our data centers."
"Workflows across the company ecosystem have can flow smoothly without experiencing any challenges."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is the SD-WAN gateway."
"It is a VPN that serves all your needs as an application firewall."
"The solution's interface is user-friendly, and the web protection is good. The tool is highly stable. The product is scalable. The technical support is good. We chose Sophos Cyberoam UTM because their focus on security research is higher compared to other brands. It's an all-in-one solution with antivirus, EDR, wireless protection, and web protection integrated into one box. The initial setup was straightforward."
"We consider the user level and control features of Sophos Cyberoam UTM to be the best."
"The main features I have found best are the load balancer and ease of use."
"The user interface is well laid out and understandable."
"I'm more inclined towards the conventional firewall. So for me, I'm more geared towards the standard firewall type functionalities as well as the web application firewall because that seems to work fine."
"The solution's web filtering is an important feature for us in our company."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"Scalability for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be improved. SD-WAN security for this solution also needs some improvement."
"Its reporting and pricing need improvement."
"The visibility of the network can be better. The GUI can be improved for better visibility of the network flow. Other solutions have better GUI in terms of network visibility."
"Improvement is needed in the Web Filter quotas to restrict users with allocated quotas."
"Fortinet needs more memory to save the log files. We need it to save the logs on the hardware and not in the cloud. I know this feature is available in FortiCloud, but if we need this log locally, it is not available."
"There are some license issues. Not every feature must have a separate license. There must be some of kind synergy between the license so we don't have to pay for every individual license that we would like to have."
"If they could extend their fabric towards other vendor environments for integration, that would be great."
"It can be difficult to install properly without prior training"
"Greater automation would reduce the need for manual configuration and management."
"The business and product development team should introduce a high-end feedback collection mechanism and analyze the customer requirements constructively."
"The initial deployment using the ARM template in Azure was straightforward, but migrating to Terraform added complexity, although we managed to make it work."
"I haven't used CloudGuard Network Security in the past couple of years as I moved out of the network security role. However, based on my previous experience, there were improvements, especially in in-place upgrades. Regarding cost, it might be potentially cheaper considering resource utilization in Azure and VM costs, but licensing could be improved, possibly moving towards a simpler model."
"It is a very expensive program and there are additional costs despite the standard licensing fees."
"The solution lacks the capability to scale effectively."
"As an administrator, I can say that among all of the Check Point products I have been working with so far, the Virtual Systems solution is one of the most difficult."
"The solution had a feature to import users from a CSV file. However, the latest version does not have that option."
"The documentation is not straightforward."
"I have problems with the email filtering. Emails pass through without any filtering affecting them. When I get back to them and tell them this is the issue, they check everything and say it is not in their database signature and they have to update it. But you know, by that time, my user has already opened it."
"We have had some issues with technical support, which is an area that needs improvement."
"There needs to be more documentation that users can access to help them understand the solution or troubleshoot as necessary."
"It isn't missing anything."
"Sometimes, during part of the configuration, if you don't have a lot of technical knowledge, then you may struggle a bit to configure it."
"The product strategy of the manufacturer is strange. I don't understand what they are doing in that regard."
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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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