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."FortiGate firewalls are easy to manage through a user-friendly web interface. They also have advanced features like DDoS and DLP. However, I wouldn't recommend enabling all of these features on one device because it can cause performance issues."
"Customers want to load balance more than eight lines or six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this."
"Mainly the FortiGate reporting system is very good. It guides us through all the expectations of security. Fortinet provides us all that we need for security. Also, Fortinet FortiGate is a next-generation firewall. It is much more advanced than others."
"FortiGate SD-WAN facilitated a smooth transition for our customers between their two internet service providers, ensuring uninterrupted connectivity without any downtime."
"The Fortinet FortiGate local partners were good. I did not have direct contact with Fortinet support."
"The most valuable features are simplicity, management, and that it's constantly evolving."
"FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"FortiGate improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"The most valuable feature is threat prevention."
"The most valuable features are the VPN Blade, IPS Blade, the URL filtering, and the Applications Control Blade."
"The tool's most valuable features are threat prevention and protection mechanisms."
"Any kind of cloud environment anywhere can be protected through this effortlessly."
"It makes securing our cloud workload super easy, and we are able to push any sort of policy changes we need pretty quickly"
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring. We can easily monitor what kind of stuff comes over to our network and we can then check the dashboard and work accordingly."
"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 solution has been quite stable."
"The most valuable features are the firewall section, the VPN, and how you control live users."
"Our customers find it economical and offers good security. These two features are key. Ease of installation and implementation are also key factors."
"The reporting features are very good."
"The user interface is well laid out and understandable."
"It is a VPN that serves all your needs as an application firewall."
"The product has helped control bandwidth utilization, as well as enhanced connectivity and security to remote locations."
"I like Sophos Cyberoam UTM as a security component or device for organizations. Performance-wise, it's a satisfactory solution, and it works okay. It also has good features."
"Content filtering, as this enables me to control that which employees can view at different time quotas."
"It would be nice if FortiGate incorporated some built-in endpoint protection features. I would also like a built-in SOC dashboard for managing multiple Fortinet firewalls."
"A lack of integration between our data centers."
"Fortinet could improve the windows opener or the virtual IP solutions for opening windows. The virtual IP settings need improvement as firewalls are trending in new development directions."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the logging and reporting. Additionally, the next-generation application's policies should be improved. When they were released they had bugs."
"Improvement is needed in the Web Filter quotas to restrict users with allocated quotas."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"The support we receive when we need to upgrade is not satisfactory and has room for improvement."
"It's my understanding that more of the current generation features could be brought in. There could be more integration with EDRs, for example."
"While today we can manage some scopes, there are still some segments in the OSI layer we cannot manage."
"The product needs to improve support. They don't consider my case the number one priority even though I want a quick resolution."
"The biggest room for improvement is that, for a long time now, they've moved everything over to R80 but they still maintain some of the stuff in the old dashboard. They need to "buy in" and move everything to the modern dashboard so that you don't have to go to one place and to another place, at times, to configure the environment. It's time they just finish what they started and put everything in the new, modern dashboard."
"The management console can be simplified because at the moment, it is a bit of a challenge to use."
"Lacks the ability to integrate with other security solutions."
"The stability of the solution could be improved, but this is the problem of all the solutions in the market. This isn't just a problem specific to Check Point."
"I would like to see more focus on east-west traffic inspection and AWS."
"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 solution could be cheaper."
"Hence, it needs to be easier to configure rules using the solution."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could improve by adding VPN site-to-site capabilities. The correct version does not work with Microsoft Azure Cloud."
"The configuration requires an expert to be set up, so it could be made simpler."
"Needs a mail alert/notification when the device loses any of its connections, during ISP redundancy implementation."
"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."
"I would like to see real-time alerts on traffic insights."
"The price is obviously a more sensitive area to focus on."
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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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