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."This is an easy solution to deploy."
"It's user-friendly and easy to operate."
"The security fabric is excellent."
"The reporting and monitoring are very good."
"The pipe filter application is an outstanding feature."
"It's very fast and easy to configure."
"The FortiGate controls the user's activities and maximizes my bandwidth use overall."
"The initial installation is very straightforward."
"Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has a beautiful threat emulation different from the market."
"The tool's most valuable features are IPS and blades. These features are valuable for security."
"The ease of administration with the cloud management extension and the cloud licensing model is valuable."
"We are using gateways, and I appreciate the high-availability gateways they have. They stand out more than the competitors."
"Identity awareness, URL filtering, IDS, DLP, Content Filtering, VPN, and Application Control are all excellent."
"The feature most valuable to me is the NDTX blade that Check Point provides, and I like how the solution is not vulnerable."
"It is a good-to-use tool that is also flexible."
"The visibility, the one-pane-of-glass which allows me to see all of my edge protection through one window and one log, is great. Monitoring everything through that one pane of glass is extremely valuable."
"The reporting features are very good."
"Web application filtering eases internet access control."
"The solution is excellent for web and application filtering and remote access with the VPN."
"The product is easy to maintain."
"The solution is easy to integrate."
"Web Filtering and Application Filtering saves a lot of my bandwidth and improves the user's productivity."
"We consider the user level and control features of Sophos Cyberoam UTM to be the best."
"The tool is stable."
"Some of the features in the graphical user interface do not work, which requires that we used the command-line-interface."
"I have to say that the initial setup was complex. The deployment took a few days to get set up. Initially, we were using an IPVanish. We switched to this tool since we thought it would be easier. But it turns out it wasn't easier to set up and run."
"There is a lot of improvement needed with SSL-VPN."
"Fortinet FortiGate is not very easy to use. The navigation could be improved to make it easier to use."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"A couple of things I've seen that need improvement, especially in terms of a hard coding. The driver-level active moment really is out-of-the-box and we have to have contact the customer support and sometimes it is difficult to resolve."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"The main aspect of FortiGate that could be improved is load balancing. Our management team does not want to buy another appliance for only load balancing."
"The product needs to improve support. They don't consider my case the number one priority even though I want a quick resolution."
"The management console can be simplified because at the moment, it is a bit of a challenge to use."
"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 product needs to improve technical support."
"For major upgrades, it's still necessary to destroy the VMs and re-create them again. Doing that would mean new public IPs as well."
"The documentation has been rough. Being able to do it yourself can be hit or miss given the constraints of the documentation."
"The migration to TerraForm is a little more complicated, but we made it work."
"People don't know about the tool's features. There's a lack of skill. Users require more knowledge on how to integrate it into the cloud environment and orchestrate routing. So, it's not necessarily a CloudGuard Network Security or Check Point issue but more about integration, knowledge, and understanding."
"I would say there's room for improvement in terms of the GUI. Because it is better than some of the other standard firewalls. They have the drag and drop features."
"SD-WAN should be included in the tool."
"Hence, it needs to be easier to configure rules using the solution."
"The solution's pricing could be a problem for some small businesses."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could improve by adding VPN site-to-site capabilities. The correct version does not work with Microsoft Azure Cloud."
"The technical support response time could be faster."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could have a more advanced reporting function."
"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 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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