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 secure web gateway module and the application control module are valuable. HA operations are very easy."
"FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"We use a southern institution that's audited for IT security and the reporting that automatically comes off the unit makes it much easier to meet compliance standards and makes it easier as far as the amount of time that has to be spent to compile that information. If you get your reporting set up correctly when you initially set it up, you just select the one you want and hit print. The auditing trail on it is the best feature."
"Provides good firewall security and has great VPN features."
"The response is very quick and they can visually resolve our problems in a short period."
"The stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"You can create multiple Virtual Domains (VDOMs), which are treated as separate firewall instances."
"The most important feature, normally for small business customers, is link load balancing."
"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 is a VPN that serves all your needs as an application firewall."
"All in one UTM appliance."
"The best feature is the flexibility the product offers, in terms of remote access. What we had before was a decentralized mechanism in our organization, but after having this product we were able to get the remote locations into the same LAN. We were able to control the bandwidth and were able to take virtual access of those machines and give them the support, as and when required."
"There are plenty of features available, such as Full Guard and WAN."
"The product is worth the investment."
"The port forwarding is good."
"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 solution's web filtering is an important feature for us in our company."
"Compared to some other products, the DLP is not at par for the moment."
"The platform's interface could improve."
"There aren't really any negative aspects to discuss."
"It would be nice if backups could more easily migrate between different models."
"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."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"The pricing could always be better."
"Fortinet already improved FortiGate, but in the current market, many brands of security devices have improved together. Fortinet still needs to catch up with market standards. Fortinet is lacking in features in comparison to competitors."
"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."
"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."
"The VPN is an area that can be improved."
"The product is at its end-of-life. There is nothing to improve as it will be discontinued."
"I would like to see a better content management pack and also the website searching should be better."
"I would like to see improvements in the development of reports. The process needs to be made simple."
"The documentation is not straightforward."
"The policy is a bit too vague."
"The reporting should be improved as well as the backup."
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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