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."I like that you are able to manage FortiGate from the FortiManager to create a more centralized environment."
"The most valuable feature is the VDOM, which allows the customer to have multiple firewalls in a single campus."
"The initial setup of Fortinet FortiGate was straightforward."
"The inspection and web security features are most valuable."
"With FortiClient, you can easily connect when you are home, check out what you want to do, and connect to your network when you are not at work. You can switch on servers and you can check what is wrong."
"The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"Advanced routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP, PBR). It gives you a seamless and simple integration into a large network."
"It's very good and very stable for businesses. It works very well."
"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 user interface is well laid out and understandable."
"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."
"The solution is easy to integrate."
"The solution's web filtering is an important feature for us in our company."
"I like the SSL VPN connection. Cyberoam works well for controlling users and authenticating their connection to the internet."
"The most valuable feature of this product is the threat protection."
"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."
"The tool's robust features allow for the customization of policies, objects, and firewall settings."
"Reporting is limited to providing an external appliance for improving the reporting capabilities of the FortiAnalyzer. It does not offer a central management and is also sold separably as an appliance."
"Some configuration elements cannot be easily altered once created."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution. However, my issue is the performance only. When I use all the profiles, this affects the performance. From the beginning, I should have had a better sizing of the box."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"The solution could be more user friendly."
"Maybe they could make some features more accessible, such as a way to translate directions between two networks that share the same subnets."
"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."
"Currently, without the additional reporting module, we only have access to basic reporting."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to see a better content management pack and also the website searching should be better."
"In my experience the solution can be easier to configure with more documentation, we need more training."
"While the security features are excellent, they could be improved."
"Cyberoam UTM needs to have more certifications with third-parties, such as NSS Labs."
"Needs a mail alert/notification when the device loses any of its connections, during ISP redundancy implementation."
"The product strategy of the manufacturer is strange. I don't understand what they are doing in that regard."
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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