We performed a comparison between McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] and Sophos Cyberoam UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."It has improved our security capabilities."
"It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"User-friendly and affordable security solution that's recommended for SMB customers. This solution has good technical support."
"The tool is a nice product and easy to handle. The software's user interface is also good. You can easily implement remote access in the solution."
"It is quite easy to handle."
"The product offers very good security."
"The main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"The main reason why I purchased the particular unit was that it had good reviews and what other people were saying as far as its completeness and its leading capabilities in terms of endpoint security was very good."
"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."
"There are plenty of features that are valuable in the Sophos Cyberoam UTM. We use all the features, such as email Security, firewall rules, web server security, web devices, web protection."
"Web and content filtering are valuable in preventing people from abusing the network and pushing up the bandwidth price."
"It is a VPN that serves all your needs as an application firewall."
"In some circumstances, the malware functionality is the most important feature, and in other cases, some other features."
"User and network policies to be managed on a single screen with powerful filtering and search options."
"All in one UTM appliance."
"Having a firewall solution with a data quota is very important when the bandwidth is limited, which really distinguishes it from other products."
"Technical support is excellent."
"The support we receive when we need to upgrade is not satisfactory and has room for improvement."
"We sometimes have issues with FortiGate's routing table in the latest firmware update. We had to downgrade the device because our customers complained about bugs."
"We had a minor problem where there was a major system upgrade on the hardware platfrom and the Mac client was not available as soon as it might have been. The PC client was available immediately, but we had to wait a month or so, before there was a mac client. I was slightly irritated that it was not ready on time, but it was eventually resolved."
"Backup can be improved."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"Lacks sufficient security options."
"Fortinet FortiGate is not very easy to use. The navigation could be improved to make it easier to use."
"If they had better integration with security products, such as Cisco ISE or Rapid Threat Containment, then it would be an improvement."
"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 policy is a bit too vague."
"The blocking needs to be improved."
"The solution's pricing could be a problem for some small businesses."
"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."
"The product’s pricing has increased by approximately 45% in four months. This particular area needs improvement."
"I would like to see improvements in the development of reports. The process needs to be made simple."
"We have had some issues with technical support, which is an area that needs improvement."
"The product needs to improve its pricing."
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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 Untangle NG Firewall.
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