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 signature database and zero-day detection are Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features."
"The reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"It's super reliable. I don't think I've ever had a reliability issue with it."
"Layer-3 firewall and routing are the most valuable features."
"It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"The management console is pretty simple, so anyone who understands networking can initially deploy the solution."
"It's quite comfortable to handle the FortiGate firewall."
"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 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 most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is a very strong product with good support."
"Technical support is excellent."
"The product is a simple and user-friendly UTM that can handle accounting, reporting, firewall, IPS, and antivirus for industries."
"I believe it's the advanced security software that offers SMPP protection for the agent."
"Cyberoam UTM's most valuable feature is that it can be configured any way you like."
"All in one UTM appliance."
"The most valuable features are the firewall section, the VPN, and how you control live users."
"NGN, reporting and controls."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"In terms of what could be improved, the SD-WAN is quite difficult, because if you install the new box, 15 is okay, but if you change from an old configuration, if there is already configuration and a policy when you change to SD-WAN, you must change the whole policy that you see in the interface."
"In the balance between links feature normally you can just choose one option to balance. It would be better for the solution to have more than one option, preferably three."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"It is stable, but its stability can be improved."
"I would like to see improvements with the antivirus and IPS as they are not working properly all the time."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding enhancements to FortiMail, FortiSOAR, and FortiDeceptor."
"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."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could improve by adding VPN site-to-site capabilities. The correct version does not work with Microsoft Azure Cloud."
"Sometimes, users are timed out intermittently."
"The solution had a feature to import users from a CSV file. However, the latest version does not have that option."
"I would like to see a better content management pack and also the website searching should be better."
"Network visibility is an area in the solution with shortcomings where improvements can be made."
"It is not a scalable product. This is because if you want to increase the capacity of the solution, then you have to change the device."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could have a more advanced reporting function."
"The following could be improved: Web Filtering using wildcards; clarity regarding the firewall rules; granular reporting features."
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.
See our list of best Firewalls vendors.
We monitor all Firewalls reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.