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."Fortinet offers the latest versions to cater to the needs of enterprises."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is the simple configuration."
"The ability to set up remote systems is the most valuable feature."
"The security features that they have are quite good. On top of that, their licensing model is quite nice where they don't charge you anything for the SD-WAN functionality for the firewall."
"The ease of setting the solution up is a valuable aspect for us."
"Security, SD-WAN, and Streetscape are valuable features."
"It has very easy management and an amazing ETM configuration."
"Fortinet FortiGate is user-friendly and affordable."
"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."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM is used for perimeter security, web filtering, intrusion prevention and as a VPN."
"The most valuable features are the firewall section, the VPN, and how you control live users."
"The most valuable feature is the IPSec forwarding."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"The best feature is the flexibility the product offers, in terms of remote access. What we had before was a decentralized mechanism in our organization, but after having this product we were able to get the remote locations into the same LAN. We were able to control the bandwidth and were able to take virtual access of those machines and give them the support, as and when required."
"The dashboard is very good-looking and offers maximum features. If a customer's website has a problem, we can guide them over the phone because they can easily find the specific option on the dashboard. That's why we suggest buying Sophos."
"The firewall feature has different branches, such as extended firewalls."
"The tool is stable."
"They sometimes hide some features and if you want to enable them, you have to go in the CLI, enable the feature and configure it through the CLI. Customers, typically, like everything to be done by the GUI."
"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."
"In some cases, its initial setup could be hard for customers."
"Fortinet doesn't provide multiple virtual firewalls which would facilitate end users and customers."
"It would be a benefit if Fortinet would release a one-stop solution that is better integrated with other products and an automated emergency response system."
"The visibility of the network can be better. The GUI can be improved for better visibility of the network flow. Other solutions have better GUI in terms of network visibility."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"There could be more integration between the logging and analytical platforms to make it more seamless and integrated."
"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 reports need to be more detailed and granular."
"Cyberoam configuration is done through the browser, which is one of the places that viruses spread."
"The VPN is an area that can be improved."
"The solution is at its end of life and some of the appliances are finishing."
"The setup is a bit complex, so we needed help from a consultant."
"The product fails to provide proper reports, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The policy is a bit too vague."
"We have had some issues with technical support, which is an area that needs improvement."
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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 Sophos XG.
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