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 main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"The most valuable feature is the VDOM, which allows the customer to have multiple firewalls in a single campus."
"All of the features of Fortinet FortiGate are useful and the security protection is good."
"You can create multiple Virtual Domains (VDOMs), which are treated as separate firewall instances."
"Our security improved from being able to put in rules and close off unwanted traffic."
"The simplicity of the configuration and the stability of the product are most valuable. The VPN concentrator is very useful."
"The scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"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."
"I'm more inclined towards the conventional firewall. So for me, I'm more geared towards the standard firewall type functionalities as well as the web application firewall because that seems to work fine."
"The product is easy to maintain."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is a very strong product with good support."
"I believe it's the advanced security software that offers SMPP protection for the agent."
"The tool's robust features allow for the customization of policies, objects, and firewall settings."
"The most valuable feature of this product is the threat protection."
"For a small-medium enterprise this solution is easy to manage and operate."
"We are using it as a security shield. It does not allow access before that in case we have restricted a few things from users, so it helps me in that."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"The solution lacks sufficient filtering."
"I use the FortiGate 60D model and realized the 300Mbps bandwidth limitation. Because it is a product that offers many services, I think it could have greater bandwidth capacity."
"It claims it does DLP, but the degree and level of controls are very basic."
"They should improve high CPU and memory usage that occurs."
"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 product is at its end-of-life. There is nothing to improve as it will be discontinued."
"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."
"It should have better VPN protection. Some of the VPN applications are not blocked by this firewall. Some VPNs are able to get through this firewall, which is why I am planning to replace this firewall with a good one in the near future."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM has room for improvement in specific rules-based objects and redesign. The solution also needs to improve in adding rules and policies, including renewing and finding policies."
"We have had some issues with technical support, which is an area that needs improvement."
"VPN configuration is not very swift."
"The reporting part could be more user-friendly for troubleshooting and identifying network issues. It should be more easy for a normal user to identify the problem in their network."
"It isn't missing anything."
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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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