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 feature is the SSL VPN, as it allows us to connect and it separates this product from other firewalls."
"The pipe filter application is an outstanding feature."
"Our security improved from being able to put in rules and close off unwanted traffic."
"We are a visual effects company, and there have been a number of high profile security issues in our industry. This has brought us to a higher standard of security, which our clients are very keen on these days."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are it is one of the most mature firewalls in the UTM bundle."
"The CLI is robust and powerful, enabling rapid, consistent changes via SSH."
"Security management tool that's easy to integrate and easy to work with. No issues found with its stability and scalability."
"The solution is very easy to understand. It's not overly complex."
"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."
"It has been working fine. You just turn it on, and it works."
"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."
"You can geofence yourself if there is an incoming attack or a continuous ping from a company outside your country."
"Content filtering, as this enables me to control that which employees can view at different time quotas."
"Web application filtering eases internet access control."
"Web Filtering and Application Filtering saves a lot of my bandwidth and improves the user's productivity."
"The performance has been good overall."
"I found that the best feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is reporting. Its reporting feature is excellent, fast, and easy to prep and launch."
"It should have a better pricing plan. It is too expensive. It should also have a more granular view of the attack. I don't have FortiAnalyzer, and it is difficult for me to have a complete view when there is an attack on my server."
"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."
"The user interface could be improved."
"Lacks training for new features."
"The support we receive when we need to upgrade is not satisfactory and has room for improvement."
"A sandbox would be good in order to be able to inspect the emails containing spam and be able to validate the emails that contain malware, prior to delivering to the customer."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"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."
"Smaller CR15 units don’t have a hard disc or built in IView software. These units could do with that feature."
"I had an issue when I was trying to stop a user from using too much bandwidth while I was using Azure, I was not able to stop them."
"While the security features are excellent, they could be improved."
"The solution's pricing could be a problem for some small businesses."
"There needs to be more documentation that users can access to help them understand the solution or troubleshoot as necessary."
"It is not a scalable product. This is because if you want to increase the capacity of the solution, then you have to change the device."
"The product is at its end-of-life. There is nothing to improve as it will be discontinued."
"The data support response time should be improved."
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 Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Sophos UTM and SonicWall NSa.
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