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 features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"It is user friendly, and has all the features you need."
"Offers good security and filtering."
"It enables our organization to become more productive. Also, it protects our NEtWare from viruses and malware."
"The security features are about the best that I've seen anywhere."
"The secure web gateway module and the application control module are valuable. HA operations are very easy."
"Initial setup is straightforward. There weren't too many issues with setting it up. It takes one hour or so."
"The technical support is great."
"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."
"For a small-medium enterprise this solution is easy to manage and operate."
"The solution's web filtering is an important feature for us in our company."
"All in one UTM appliance."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Our customers find it economical and offers good security. These two features are key. Ease of installation and implementation are also key factors."
"The solution works perfectly without any users."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is a very strong product with good support."
"The reporting features are very good."
"We would like to see better pricing."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution. However, my issue is the performance only. When I use all the profiles, this affects the performance. From the beginning, I should have had a better sizing of the box."
"Technical support for this solution can be improved."
"The pricing could be reduced or include the first year warranty."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the logging and reporting. Additionally, the next-generation application's policies should be improved. When they were released they had bugs."
"In the next release, maybe the documentation on how to use this solution could be improved."
"You do need some IT knowledge in order to effectively work with the solution."
"The web-cache feature which was previously on the FortiGate device, but was deleted with the recent upgrade should be returned. It was a very valuable feature for us."
"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."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could improve by adding VPN site-to-site capabilities. The correct version does not work with Microsoft Azure Cloud."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"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."
"The solution had a feature to import users from a CSV file. However, the latest version does not have that option."
"The VPN is an area that can be improved."
"VPN configuration is not very swift."
"There are some issues with logs and report limitations."
"The reporting part could be more user-friendly for troubleshooting and identifying network issues. It should be more easy for a normal user to identify the problem in their network."
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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