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 enables our organization to become more productive. Also, it protects our NEtWare from viruses and malware."
"We are very happy with the general bandwidth agility we have seen from one website to another website."
"Anti-Spam web content filterinG."
"It's very good and very stable for businesses. It works very well."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the analytics."
"The most valuable feature is the interface, which is very user friendly. We are utilizing most of the features, like content filtering. The firewall is powerful."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"What I like the most is the configuration and that it's simple, and straightforward to maintain."
"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 most valuable feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is the SD-WAN gateway."
"The most valuable feature is the solution is easy to configure for users."
"The product is worth the investment."
"Web application filtering eases internet access control."
"The product is a simple and user-friendly UTM that can handle accounting, reporting, firewall, IPS, and antivirus for industries."
"The solution is easy to integrate."
"User and network policies to be managed on a single screen with powerful filtering and search options."
"You can geofence yourself if there is an incoming attack or a continuous ping from a company outside your country."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"Fortinet already improved FortiGate, but in the current market, many brands of security devices have improved together. Fortinet still needs to catch up with market standards. Fortinet is lacking in features in comparison to competitors."
"The support structure needs to be improved because every time we contact them, there is a delay in the response."
"WAN load-balancing could be a lot better at detecting when a link is poor or inconsistent, and not just flat out dead."
"The UI could be improved."
"The support is the main thing that needs to be improved."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"They should offer special pricing to premium partners and customers."
"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 solution's pricing could be a problem for some small businesses."
"I would like to see improvements in the development of reports. The process needs to be made simple."
"VPN configuration is not very swift."
"The solution had a feature to import users from a CSV file. However, the latest version does not have that option."
"The blocking needs to be improved."
"We use different workarounds and find different solutions for it, depending on the client's needs. We shouldn't have to, we should just be able to use the product as it comes with Cyberoam, rather than having to revert to other products."
"There is a lot or room for improvement, because it is still not a fourth or fifth generation firewall. It lacks security features."
"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 Netgate pfSense, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos UTM, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Untangle NG Firewall.
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