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."The pricing is great and very reasonable."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is good to use, and most importantly, the pricing. The customer especially likes the discount when they trade up or something like that."
"Web filtering and two-factor authentication are great features."
"Fortinet FortiGate appears to be scalable."
"Good anti-malware and web filtering features."
"The IPS is good. It protect my network from attackers."
"It is easy to use and performs very well."
"The solution is easy to configure and maintain remotely."
"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."
"Our customers find it economical and offers good security. These two features are key. Ease of installation and implementation are also key factors."
"The product is easy to maintain."
"The solution is excellent for web and application filtering and remote access with the VPN."
"The user interface is well laid out and understandable."
"The security capabilities are okay."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The port forwarding is good."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is the SD-WAN gateway."
"It should provide better visibility over the network and more information in the form of reports for the end users. Its installation should also be easier."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"You do need some IT knowledge in order to effectively work with the solution."
"FortiOS is not simple."
"The solution lacks multi-language support."
"With FortiGate, the main complaint that I have heard is about the technical support."
"The reports are very basic."
"The solution is very expensive."
"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."
"In my experience the solution can be easier to configure with more documentation, we need more training."
"There are some issues with logs and report limitations."
"When it comes to web filtering and application filtering, it does not contain enough signatures to determine all of the sites that need to be blocked."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could have a more advanced reporting function."
"Once in a while, an unwanted email will slip in. You have to set your parameters to avoid that happening, but once in a while, an email has slipped past firewall. Once you update the firmware, you notice that it doesn't happen. If an email slips in, I get a little bit worried. I do get the report, but you just don't want that situation happening in the first place."
"The product had a hang issue. We needed to reboot, recreate the image, and reconfigure the previous image because the product hanged frequently."
"Cyberoam configuration is done through the browser, which is one of the places that viruses spread."
"There needs to be more documentation that users can access to help them understand the solution or troubleshoot as necessary."
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 Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Sophos UTM and SonicWall NSa.
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