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 most valuable feature of FortiGate is FortiView which provides proactive monitoring."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The most important feature, normally for small business customers, is link load balancing."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use. Anyone can easily maintain it."
"Layer-3 firewall and routing are the most valuable features."
"Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features are ease of use, flexibility, and most of the configuration we can be done using the GUI. When we compare Fortinet FortiGate with other solutions the firewall policy are very easy to understand."
"Its performance in fulfilling our requirements has been satisfactory."
"Easy to use support and licensing portal as well as activation process."
"It is dynamic and agile, and its features and utilities continuously improve and evolve."
"The program is very stable."
"CloudGuard's intelligent tools help us automate many manual security tasks, guaranteeing our customers' environments will be secure."
"The VPN features in CloudGuard Network Security have been the most valuable for us."
"The tool's most valuable features are IPS and blades. These features are valuable for security."
"The easy management of the policies is great for us because we are a small team and having easy management is great and useful for us."
"It is scalable. It's a cloud solution, so it's easy to implement and manage."
"The multiple virtual firewalls on one box are extremely useful and the interconnection with virtual switches is simple and easy to understand."
"Content filtering, as this enables me to control that which employees can view at different time quotas."
"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 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."
"Cyberoam UTM's most valuable feature is that it can be configured any way you like."
"The product is easy to maintain."
"For a small-medium enterprise this solution is easy to manage and operate."
"Its portal is user-friendly. I am able to manage the user data and access control through this device."
"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."
"MTBF: Hardware failure is more common when compared to SonicWall or Cisco ASA."
"With FortiGate, the main complaint that I have heard is about the technical support."
"The ease of use could be improved."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"Quality control on their firmware versions needs improvement. When they introduce new firmware, there tend to be bugs."
"If they could extend their fabric towards other vendor environments for integration, that would be great."
"There is room for improvement related to the logging and reporting aspect."
"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 hope that Check Point continues to improve its technical documentation regarding the Check Point CloudGuard IaaS gateway and management system."
"The business and product development team should introduce a high-end feedback collection mechanism and analyze the customer requirements constructively."
"It can be difficult to install properly without prior training"
"Check Point support, beyond CloudGuard, does need some improvement."
"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."
"The convergence time between cluster members is still not perfect. It's far away from what we get in traditional appliances. If a company wants to move mission-critical applications for an environment to the cloud, it somehow has to accept that it could have downtime of up to 40 seconds, until cluster members switch virtual IP addresses between themselves and start accepting the traffic. That is a little bit too high in my opinion. It's not fully Check Point's fault, because it's a hybrid mechanism with AWS. The blame is 50/50."
"CloudGuard Network Security's pricing is expensive. We have encountered issues with its licensing."
"The reporting part could be more user-friendly for troubleshooting and identifying network issues. It should be more easy for a normal user to identify the problem in their network."
"The documentation is not straightforward."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could have a more advanced reporting function."
"I would like to see improvements in the development of reports. The process needs to be made simple."
"The solution had a feature to import users from a CSV file. However, the latest version does not have that option."
"The product needs to improve its pricing."
"Its scalability is not that great."
"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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