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 most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is security. They are known for efficiency and are on the top of Gartner Quadrant reviews. Fortinet FortiGate has an easy-to-use platform with a good graphical interface. The configuration is simple and the solution provides an overall good layer of security."
"It's quite comfortable to handle the FortiGate firewall."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use."
"I like how we can achieve total integration."
"LinkGreat firewall capabilities"
"The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"The solution is stable."
"The IPsec tunnels are very easily created, and quite interoperable with devices from other vendors."
"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."
"The product has helped control bandwidth utilization, as well as enhanced connectivity and security to remote locations."
"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 main features I have found best are the load balancer and ease of use."
"The solution's web filtering is an important feature for us in our company."
"It has been working fine. You just turn it on, and it works."
"Web Filtering and Application Filtering saves a lot of my bandwidth and improves the user's productivity."
"The solution works perfectly without any users."
"You can geofence yourself if there is an incoming attack or a continuous ping from a company outside your country."
"The search tool needs improvement. It's very difficult to search for policies right now."
"While FortiGate is cheaper than most other solutions, we're seeing increased license renewal costs. Most of our clients are asking for more significant discounts because the price is going up."
"Fortinet FortiGate can be integrated with different platforms. They have integrations in place, but I can't say they're 100%."
"The solution could be more secure and stable."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"The improvement is related to logs. Instead of the CLI, we should be able to have more insights into the logs of the firewall in the GUI."
"Some of the filtering is not robust, you can escape it with a VPN. Some of the users bypass some of the filters. It catches some but it also misses some, that area could be improved. It's functioning reasonably but there's room for improvement in that area."
"The product does need better support in the cloud environment. It's not exactly cloud-native right now."
"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 strategy of the manufacturer is strange. I don't understand what they are doing in that regard."
"The product is at its end-of-life. There is nothing to improve as it will be discontinued."
"Maybe network traffic analysis for malware and malicious behavior."
"What needs improvement in Sophos Cyberoam UTM is openness in the competition among Sophos partners or any other Sophos product. Another area for improvement in the solution is pricing. It could be cheaper."
"The reporting should be improved as well as the backup."
"The blocking needs to be improved."
"The solution had a feature to import users from a CSV file. However, the latest version does not have that option."
"The price is obviously a more sensitive area to focus on."
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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