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."What I like the most is the configuration and that it's simple, and straightforward to maintain."
"Offers good security and filtering."
"I think that the UTM features are the most value, as it truly protects my infrastructure."
"The technical support is great."
"I like that you are able to manage FortiGate from the FortiManager to create a more centralized environment."
"A strong point of FortiGate is the graphical interface is complete and easy to use."
"I really like the captive portal feature for our guest network. It has nice VLAN features in terms of separating our network. The anti-virus is also good."
"Fortinet FortiGate's ease of management 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 reporting features are very good."
"For a small-medium enterprise this solution is easy to manage and operate."
"Content filtering, as this enables me to control that which employees can view at different time quotas."
"In terms of features and user-friendliness, the solution is good. It’s very stable. The solution is scalable. In Sophos Cyberoam UTM, the most valuable features are web and application filtering, routing functionalities, and VPN. It has helped us manage the bandwidth."
"All in one UTM appliance."
"Web Filtering and Application Filtering saves a lot of my bandwidth and improves the user's productivity."
"We consider the user level and control features of Sophos Cyberoam UTM to be the best."
"Cyberoam UTM's most valuable feature is that it can be configured any way you like."
"Their software support needs improvement. I would prefer to have better support for bug fixes. Sometimes, we open a ticket, and it is very difficult to get a solution. Specifically, we are not at all happy with their support for load balancing."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding FortiAnalyzer to its solution, we should not have to use another solution. FortiAnalyzer can provide more detailed information."
"With the addition of some features, it is possible that FortiGate can be used in all verticals."
"You do need some IT knowledge in order to effectively work with the solution."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"The Wi-Fi controller needs a lot of improvement."
"It needs more available central management."
"Cisco Meraki products are rising very quickly in the cloud and the connected era. Meraki products offer much better ROI, upgradability, and manageability."
"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 product had a hang issue. We needed to reboot, recreate the image, and reconfigure the previous image because the product hanged frequently."
"The solution had a feature to import users from a CSV file. However, the latest version does not have that option."
"There needs to be more documentation that users can access to help them understand the solution or troubleshoot as necessary."
"The product strategy of the manufacturer is strange. I don't understand what they are doing in that regard."
"The blocking needs to be improved."
"Sophos VPN connectivity could be improved, as it can be lengthy, and users take longer to connect"
"On-box sandstorm should be available. As of now, it is from their cloud."
"It should have a better VPN client. We decided to find something different than Cyberoam because of the VPN client software. It would be nice to have a user interface not only in English but also in different languages."
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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