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 useful functionality of Fortinet FortiGate is the user interface, multiple engines, and their cloud with the latest integrations. Additionally, the Security Fabric tool is very good."
"I like Fortinet FortiGate's antispam filter, SPN, and clustering features."
"The interface is very good."
"It's an easy solution to set up."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"The product is very stable, easy to troubleshoot, and configure, so it has reduced the time it takes for support."
"The main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"It's super reliable. I don't think I've ever had a reliability issue with it."
"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 solution is easy to integrate."
"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."
"It is a VPN that serves all your needs as an application firewall."
"The reporting features are very good."
"We have never had to restart a firewall. The firewalls have all worked perfectly fine."
"The most valuable feature is the IPSec forwarding."
"Content filtering, as this enables me to control that which employees can view at different time quotas."
"We consider the user level and control features of Sophos Cyberoam UTM to be the best."
"With the addition of some features, it is possible that FortiGate can be used in all verticals."
"A sandbox would be good in order to be able to inspect the emails containing spam and be able to validate the emails that contain malware, prior to delivering to the customer."
"WAN load-balancing could be a lot better at detecting when a link is poor or inconsistent, and not just flat out dead."
"The support structure needs to be improved because every time we contact them, there is a delay in the response."
"The room for improvement is about the global delivery time period. Usually I need to wait for almost one month to deliver it overseas. So if you can shorten the deliver time it'd be great."
"The license renewal process, annual renewal price, and the web application firewall features should be improved."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"The way everything is set up could be easier. Currently, people need a lot of experience and knowledge to administer it and to link it to devices."
"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."
"Needs a mail alert/notification when the device loses any of its connections, during ISP redundancy implementation."
"The solution's pricing could be a problem for some small businesses."
"The product fails to provide proper reports, making it an area where improvements are required."
"There needs to be more documentation that users can access to help them understand the solution or troubleshoot as necessary."
"The data support response time should be improved."
"Once in a while, an unwanted email will slip in. You have to set your parameters to avoid that happening, but once in a while, an email has slipped past firewall. Once you update the firmware, you notice that it doesn't happen. If an email slips in, I get a little bit worried. I do get the report, but you just don't want that situation happening in the first place."
"Its scalability is not that great."
"I would like to see real-time alerts on traffic insights."
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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