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."Layer-3 firewall and routing are the most valuable features."
"Using this product makes the VPN seamless and almost invisible to me in the sense that I don't have to think about it."
"Overall, the pricing of the solution is very good. The product offers good value."
"It is user friendly, and has all the features you need."
"The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"We have been able to offer several services to customers in a single box."
"The tool is a nice product and easy to handle. The software's user interface is also good. You can easily implement remote access in the solution."
"Initial setup is easy to configure."
"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 is worth the investment."
"The user interface is well laid out and understandable."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"SD-WAN and IPSec features are valuable to me."
"Good user interface."
"Technical support is excellent."
"I like the SSL VPN connection. Cyberoam works well for controlling users and authenticating their connection to the internet."
"The product is a simple and user-friendly UTM that can handle accounting, reporting, firewall, IPS, and antivirus for industries."
"Its reporting and pricing need improvement."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"I feel that the reporting needs to be improved."
"Cisco Meraki products are rising very quickly in the cloud and the connected era. Meraki products offer much better ROI, upgradability, and manageability."
"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."
"The UI could be improved."
"Tunnel flapping was one of the major things I had seen wherein your internet link remains but your VPN tunnel is down. However, since I got a fix from the TAC team, I have not noticed it, but the customer complained a few times that they couldn't access the internet because of this problem."
"Lacks training for new features."
"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."
"I would like to see real-time alerts on traffic insights."
"The reporting should be improved as well as the backup."
"Network visibility is an area in the solution with shortcomings where improvements can be made."
"Its scalability is not that great."
"The price is obviously a more sensitive area to focus on."
"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."
"Sometimes, users are timed out intermittently."
"I would like to see a better content management pack and also the website searching should be better."
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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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