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 FortiGate's most valuable features are ease of use, flexibility, and most of the configuration we can be done using the GUI. When we compare Fortinet FortiGate with other solutions the firewall policy are very easy to understand."
"The secure web gateway module and the application control module are valuable. HA operations are very easy."
"Their reliability and their policy of pre-shipping replacements when a unit has failed."
"The base firewall features are quite valuable to us."
"Security management tool that's easy to integrate and easy to work with. No issues found with its stability and scalability."
"FortiGate Secure SD-WAN includes best-of-breed next-generation firewall (NGFW) security, SD-WAN, advanced routing, and WAN optimization capabilities, delivering a security-driven networking WAN edge transformation in a unified offering."
"Using this product makes the VPN seamless and almost invisible to me in the sense that I don't have to think about it."
"It can expand easily."
"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 most valuable feature is the solution is easy to configure for users."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is the SD-WAN gateway."
"I like Sophos Cyberoam UTM as a security component or device for organizations. Performance-wise, it's a satisfactory solution, and it works okay. It also has good features."
"It has been working fine. You just turn it on, and it works."
"The tool's robust features allow for the customization of policies, objects, and firewall settings."
"We have never had to restart a firewall. The firewalls have all worked perfectly fine."
"I found that the best feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is reporting. Its reporting feature is excellent, fast, and easy to prep and launch."
"Having a firewall solution with a data quota is very important when the bandwidth is limited, which really distinguishes it from other products."
"There is room for improvement related to the logging and reporting aspect."
"The Web-filter in this solution is not very good."
"I feel that the reporting needs to be improved."
"The platform's interface could improve."
"The room for improvement is about the global delivery time period. Usually I need to wait for almost one month to deliver it overseas. So if you can shorten the deliver time it'd be great."
"NGN, reporting and controls."
"Fortinet needs more memory to save the log files. We need it to save the logs on the hardware and not in the cloud. I know this feature is available in FortiCloud, but if we need this log locally, it is not available."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"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 strategy of the manufacturer is strange. I don't understand what they are doing in that regard."
"I have problems with the email filtering. Emails pass through without any filtering affecting them. When I get back to them and tell them this is the issue, they check everything and say it is not in their database signature and they have to update it. But you know, by that time, my user has already opened it."
"The Traffic Discovery feature should allow administrators to disconnect unnecessary live connections."
"The reports need to be more detailed and granular."
"SD-WAN should be included in the tool."
"The product had a hang issue. We needed to reboot, recreate the image, and reconfigure the previous image because the product hanged frequently."
"Sophos VPN connectivity could be improved, as it can be lengthy, and users take longer to connect"
"Sometimes, during part of the configuration, if you don't have a lot of technical knowledge, then you may struggle a bit to configure it."
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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