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 most valuable feature is the web filter."
"The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"Consolidated our network environment at all locations, but mainly at our datacenter."
"We can detect any attack of viruses or malware at the first point of contact."
"We use the FortiGate Sandbox to detect zero-day vulnerabilities, such as anomalies or malware, that are unknown and have not yet been discovered."
"The next-gen features, the unified threat management capabilities are something that just about everybody is interested in at this point."
"This solution made it very easy to manage our bandwidth."
"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 features are the firewall section, the VPN, and how you control live users."
"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."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM is used for perimeter security, web filtering, intrusion prevention and as a VPN."
"Good user interface."
"The solution works perfectly without any users."
"It has been working fine. You just turn it on, and it works."
"The security capabilities are okay."
"There were quite a few problems with the stability of the system."
"The integration with third-party tools may be something that they should work on."
"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."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"The captive portal could be improved."
"The sniffing packets or packet captures, can be simplified and improved because it's a little confusing."
"The firewall engine is not so strong as of now, in my opinion... My second concern is that, while they have Zero-day vulnerability and anti-malware features, the threat engine needs to be strengthened, its efficiency can be increased."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"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."
"There are some issues with logs and report limitations."
"The reporting should be improved as well as the backup."
"The product’s pricing has increased by approximately 45% in four months. This particular area needs improvement."
"The VPN needs to be improved."
"It isn't missing anything."
"The policy is a bit too vague."
"When it comes to web filtering and application filtering, it does not contain enough signatures to determine all of the sites that need to be blocked."
"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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