We performed a comparison between McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] and Sophos Cyberoam UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"Its administrative panel is very intuitive and simple. It is simpler than the other solutions that we had. As an administrator, we are always looking for the easiest solution to manage network policies. We are able to filter everything on our network and also use the VPN feature, which is important these days when people are working remotely during COVID."
"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 customization potential is quite impressive."
"The secure web gateway module and the application control module are valuable. HA operations are very easy."
"The scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate."
"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 security capabilities are okay."
"I like the SSL VPN connection. Cyberoam works well for controlling users and authenticating their connection to the internet."
"The main features I have found best are the load balancer and ease of use."
"The user interface is well laid out and understandable."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is the SD-WAN gateway."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM is used for perimeter security, web filtering, intrusion prevention and as a VPN."
"The reporting features are very good."
"All in one UTM appliance."
"The biggest "gotcha" is that if the client purchases what they call the UTM shared bundle, which has unified threat management on both, it's not as easy to manage if you have more than one firewall."
"FortiOS is not simple."
"Lacks training for new features."
"If they could extend their fabric towards other vendor environments for integration, that would be great."
"The solution could have licensing fees reduced in the future."
"It needs to improve its ISP load balancing."
"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."
"Backup can 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 solution's pricing could be a problem for some small businesses."
"Its scalability is not that great."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"Needs a mail alert/notification when the device loses any of its connections, during ISP redundancy implementation."
"There is a lot or room for improvement, because it is still not a fourth or fifth generation firewall. It lacks security features."
"The product fails to provide proper reports, making it an area where improvements are required."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could improve by adding VPN site-to-site capabilities. The correct version does not work with Microsoft Azure Cloud."
"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."
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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