We performed a comparison between McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] and Sophos Cyberoam UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"It's very easy to configure."
"The web tutor and automatic rules by schedule are good features."
"We've found the solution to be pretty stable."
"Anti-Spam web content filterinG."
"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."
"Provides good firewall security and has great VPN features."
"FortiGate Secure SD-WAN includes best-of-breed next-generation firewall (NGFW) security, SD-WAN, advanced routing, and WAN optimization capabilities, delivering a security-driven networking WAN edge transformation in a unified offering."
"It does give certain protection for everything that is well configured on our McAfee server. We have good protection with it. If we could find a feature and make it work, it would work perfectly, there would be no bugs, and it would be really good."
"Its portal is user-friendly. I am able to manage the user data and access control through this device."
"Having a firewall solution with a data quota is very important when the bandwidth is limited, which really distinguishes it from other products."
"In some circumstances, the malware functionality is the most important feature, and in other cases, some other features."
"The product, itself, doesn't seem to have any bugs or glitches."
"Our customers find it economical and offers good security. These two features are key. Ease of installation and implementation are also key factors."
"Bandwidth Management and aggregation. It is valuable for combining two ISPs. Switching to a secondary/redundant ISP is thus seamless, in the event that the primary ISP goes down. The Bandwidth Management is also valuable for limiting heavy downloaders that may impact negatively on the experience of other users."
"The solution's web filtering is an important feature for us in our company."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The scalability could be better."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"The firmware needs improvement because there are bugs when a new release comes through. Sometimes, the configuration changes, and it's a bit harder to see where the fail is. The first time that you have the firmware, it tends to have some issues, and it's better to wait a bit to update the equipment."
"Technical support is good but the response time could be faster."
"The solution lacks multi-language support."
"There are SD-WAN network monitoring, SD-WAN features, Industrial Databases, Internet of Things, Detection, etc., however, we do have not licenses for those features. We thought that if you bought a product, you should have all of the features it offers. Why should you need to make so many extra purchases to enable features? They should have one price for the entire offering."
"There are some complex administration tasks in their administration portal. That needs to be improved."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"Customer support and AV are both lacking and are really hard to come to you when the product is installed. Those are the two major points that they need to work on."
"The product fails to provide proper reports, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The Traffic Discovery feature should allow administrators to disconnect unnecessary live connections."
"The blocking needs to be improved."
"It is not a scalable product. This is because if you want to increase the capacity of the solution, then you have to change the device."
"I would like to see a better content management pack and also the website searching should be better."
"It should have a better VPN client. We decided to find something different than Cyberoam because of the VPN client software. It would be nice to have a user interface not only in English but also in different languages."
"Smaller CR15 units don’t have a hard disc or built in IView software. These units could do with that feature."
"The VPN needs to be improved."
Earn 20 points
McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews. McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] is rated 7.0, while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] writes "For managing multiple MFE firewalls it is incredibly handy but it could be easier for customers to migrate from one version to another. ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Cyberoam UTM writes "Stable and has a straightforward setup; reporting is fast and easy". McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos UTM, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Sophos XG.
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