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 UTM feature is quite good. FortiAP is easy to deploy because both Fortigate and FortiAP are under the same brand. Otherwise, you need to do more work on the configuration."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"Fortigate's most valuable feature is that it doesn't need a push policy when writing rules."
"It's very fast and easy to configure."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"The security features that they have are quite good. On top of that, their licensing model is quite nice where they don't charge you anything for the SD-WAN functionality for the firewall."
"Fortinet FortiGate appears to be scalable."
"Auto Scaling is one of the features that make me want to choose CloudGuard over actual HW."
"Auto-scaling and zero touch are valuable features."
"The scalability is very good; again, very user-friendly. I wouldn't even say "user-friendly" because, as long as you deploy it properly, you can kill an EC2 and it will spin up another one right away, within about a minute and a half. And it will be ready for production right away."
"The VPN features in CloudGuard Network Security have been the most valuable for us."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that you can start off with a simple firewall and expand it to UTM."
"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."
"Some retail customers find the scale-up and scale-down features valuable, particularly with scale sets. This is useful for handling increased loads on devices and utilizing firewalls, similar to on-premises setups with active standby configurations."
"The notifications, the visibility, and the deployment are the most valuable. It could be packaged in such a way that it took a lot of time and resources off our hands, so it was more efficient."
"The product has helped control bandwidth utilization, as well as enhanced connectivity and security to remote locations."
"We have never had to restart a firewall. The firewalls have all worked perfectly fine."
"The tool is stable."
"All in one UTM appliance."
"Cyberoam UTM's most valuable feature is that it can be configured any way you like."
"The security capabilities are okay."
"The most valuable feature is the IPSec forwarding."
"In terms of features and user-friendliness, the solution is good. It’s very stable. The solution is scalable. In Sophos Cyberoam UTM, the most valuable features are web and application filtering, routing functionalities, and VPN. It has helped us manage the bandwidth."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"There are just some services that aren't available. For example, the Ethernet or point-to-point protocols. They could add these services to their product offering - especially services for ISPs."
"The customization could be improved. Cisco, for example, is much better at this. They need to work to be at least as good as they are."
"It should have a better pricing plan. It is too expensive. It should also have a more granular view of the attack. I don't have FortiAnalyzer, and it is difficult for me to have a complete view when there is an attack on my server."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"We would like to see better pricing."
"It would be a benefit if Fortinet would release a one-stop solution that is better integrated with other products and an automated emergency response system."
"Check Point could show us use cases that would help us in Czech and could help us with security threats in our specific country."
"The product can still grow."
"Check Point has a history of moving fast with software release and upgrade cycles which are difficult to keep up with at times."
"The price of the solution could be reduced, it is expensive."
"New features have been introduced recently, but they have not yet been integrated into CloudGuard Vsec."
"The product needs to improve support. They don't consider my case the number one priority even though I want a quick resolution."
"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."
"Greater automation would reduce the need for manual configuration and management."
"What needs improvement in Sophos Cyberoam UTM is openness in the competition among Sophos partners or any other Sophos product. Another area for improvement in the solution is pricing. It could be cheaper."
"I would like to see improvements in the development of reports. The process needs to be made simple."
"Technical support could be faster."
"The configuration requires an expert to be set up, so it could be made simpler."
"It isn't missing anything."
"The blocking needs to be improved."
"The product had a hang issue. We needed to reboot, recreate the image, and reconfigure the previous image because the product hanged frequently."
"We use different workarounds and find different solutions for it, depending on the client's needs. We shouldn't have to, we should just be able to use the product as it comes with Cyberoam, rather than having to revert to other products."
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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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