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 network security and cloud security are most valuable."
"I like that you are able to manage FortiGate from the FortiManager to create a more centralized environment."
"The technical support in our region is excellent."
"The technical support is great."
"The initial setup of Fortinet FortiGate was straightforward."
"Unified Threat Management (UTM) features."
"The reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"Initial setup is easy to configure."
"The 24/7 online customer support services enhance effective operations and provide quick services in case of a system failure."
"The versatility is the solution's most valuable feature."
"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."
"All the features that we subscribe to from CloudGuard NGTP are valuable. All the threat prevention and access control features give us the network security that we expect."
"This solution brings us closer to having a better security score, which helps us a lot in complying with information regulations based on security."
"It's a high-performance device. The network performance is also really good. We check how much time it takes for the servers. Our network performance has increased since using this solution."
"We have unified management. It is one of the advantages of this product."
"The most valuable feature for us is the cluster support."
"Web Filtering and Application Filtering saves a lot of my bandwidth and improves the user's productivity."
"The dashboard is very good-looking and offers maximum features. If a customer's website has a problem, we can guide them over the phone because they can easily find the specific option on the dashboard. That's why we suggest buying Sophos."
"The most valuable features are the firewall section, the VPN, and how you control live users."
"We have never had to restart a firewall. The firewalls have all worked perfectly fine."
"The solution works perfectly without any users."
"We consider the user level and control features of Sophos Cyberoam UTM to be the best."
"The solution is excellent for web and application filtering and remote access with the VPN."
"It is a VPN that serves all your needs as an application firewall."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the protection, it did not prevent us from being attacked. Additionally, Fortinet FortiGate could provide more features for WAF devices. I should not have to purchase two solutions, it would be a benefit to combine these features into one solution."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate can improve the integration with Active Directory. Additionally, I would like to have a Cloud Controller, such as they do in the Cisco Meraki solution."
"The user interface could be improved."
"I think there could be more QoS features"
"Fortigate's hardware capacities could be improved."
"I would like to see a more intuitive dashboard."
"We were not able to build a full-mesh VPN; however, I am not sure if this was the fault of Fortinet FortiGate."
"The initial deployment using the ARM template in Azure was straightforward, but migrating to Terraform added complexity, although we managed to make it work."
"The cost is relatively high compared to the cost of other products in the market."
"The networking system updates, when delayed, can lead to misconfigurations and data loss."
"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."
"The memory and hard disk capability could be strengthened."
"There is room for improvement regarding the technical support provided."
"The solution’s technical support, DNS security and training could be improved."
"The documentation could be much better."
"The configuration requires an expert to be set up, so it could be made simpler."
"I had an issue when I was trying to stop a user from using too much bandwidth while I was using Azure, I was not able to stop them."
"There is a lot or room for improvement, because it is still not a fourth or fifth generation firewall. It lacks security features."
"The blocking needs to be improved."
"There are some issues with logs and report limitations."
"The product fails to provide proper reports, making it an area where improvements are required."
"Cyberoam configuration is done through the browser, which is one of the places that viruses spread."
"There needs to be more documentation that users can access to help them understand the solution or troubleshoot as necessary."
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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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