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."Web filtering and two-factor authentication are great features."
"Valuable features include the Web Application Firewall, and it even has DLP (data leak prevention)."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use. Anyone can easily maintain it."
"The threat prevention is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"What I like the most is the configuration and that it's simple, and straightforward to maintain."
"The features that prevent internet connections, the filtering are the most valuable because we did not have any internet protection before."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is load balancing. It can provide central management and VPNA. Additionally, it has enhanced our security environment."
"The ability to set up remote systems is the most valuable feature."
"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 is the IPSec forwarding."
"The solution's web filtering is an important feature for us in our company."
"The product has helped control bandwidth utilization, as well as enhanced connectivity and security to remote locations."
"Technical support is excellent."
"Having a firewall solution with a data quota is very important when the bandwidth is limited, which really distinguishes it from other products."
"User and network policies to be managed on a single screen with powerful filtering and search options."
"Web Filtering and Application Filtering saves a lot of my bandwidth and improves the user's productivity."
"Our customers find it economical and offers good security. These two features are key. Ease of installation and implementation are also key factors."
"The main aspect of FortiGate that could be improved is load balancing. Our management team does not want to buy another appliance for only load balancing."
"The setup is pretty complex and not easy to implement."
"In terms of what could be improved, the SD-WAN is quite difficult, because if you install the new box, 15 is okay, but if you change from an old configuration, if there is already configuration and a policy when you change to SD-WAN, you must change the whole policy that you see in the interface."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"It can be a little bit more user-friendly in terms of policy definition and implementation. It seems a little bit complicated, and it could be simplified."
"With the addition of some features, it is possible that FortiGate can be used in all verticals."
"The customization could be improved. Cisco, for example, is much better at this. They need to work to be at least as good as they are."
"I would like to see improvements in the support from Fortinet. Here in the Philippines, whenever we have problems with a Fortinet product, we mostly ask for support from distributors and resellers and not directly from Fortinet."
"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."
"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."
"The solution should improve its scalability because it cannot support enterprise networks."
"The product had a hang issue. We needed to reboot, recreate the image, and reconfigure the previous image because the product hanged frequently."
"The solution's pricing could be a problem for some small businesses."
"The technical support response time could be faster."
"Network visibility is an area in the solution with shortcomings where improvements can be made."
"Smaller CR15 units don’t have a hard disc or built in IView software. These units could do with that feature."
"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 Sophos XG.
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