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 policies, filtering, and configuration."
"Virtual Domains (VDOMs) are a feature that we found valuable."
"The security features are about the best that I've seen anywhere."
"We use the FortiGate Sandbox to detect zero-day vulnerabilities, such as anomalies or malware, that are unknown and have not yet been discovered."
"FortiGate improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"The CLI and GUI do a good job of putting a lot at your fingertips."
"The technical support in our region is excellent."
"The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"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."
"Our customers find it economical and offers good security. These two features are key. Ease of installation and implementation are also key factors."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is the SD-WAN gateway."
"The most valuable feature is the solution is easy to configure for users."
"The tool is stable."
"Its portal is user-friendly. I am able to manage the user data and access control through this device."
"User and network policies to be managed on a single screen with powerful filtering and search options."
"I found that the best feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is reporting. Its reporting feature is excellent, fast, and easy to prep and launch."
"The security capabilities are okay."
"WAN load-balancing could be a lot better at detecting when a link is poor or inconsistent, and not just flat out dead."
"There are problems with the custom reporting of the unique traffic. The data is there, but it is too difficult for us to extract."
"There aren't really any negative aspects to discuss."
"From a reporting perspective, there's room for improvement. They're providing FortiAnalyzer through which one can get some enhancements, but the visibility and reporting still need slight improvement."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"The captive portal could be improved."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"We sometimes have issues with FortiGate's routing table in the latest firmware update. We had to downgrade the device because our customers complained about bugs."
"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."
"There are some issues with logs and report limitations."
"I would like to see improvements in the development of reports. The process needs to be made simple."
"Hence, it needs to be easier to configure rules using the solution."
"The solution's pricing could be a problem for some small businesses."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could have a more advanced reporting function."
"I would say there's room for improvement in terms of the GUI. Because it is better than some of the other standard firewalls. They have the drag and drop features."
"The policy is a bit too vague."
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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