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."Virtual Domains (VDOMs) are a feature that we found valuable."
"Fortinet FortiGate appears to be scalable."
"The initial setup of Fortinet FortiGate was straightforward."
"It has improved our security capabilities."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the SD-WAN and their IP4 policy."
"The threat prevention is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"FortiGate firewalls are easy to manage through a user-friendly web interface. They also have advanced features like DDoS and DLP. However, I wouldn't recommend enabling all of these features on one device because it can cause performance issues."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution."
"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 has been working fine. You just turn it on, and it works."
"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."
"Web Filtering and Application Filtering saves a lot of my bandwidth and improves the user's productivity."
"The product is a simple and user-friendly UTM that can handle accounting, reporting, firewall, IPS, and antivirus for industries."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is the SD-WAN gateway."
"Our customers find it economical and offers good security. These two features are key. Ease of installation and implementation are also key factors."
"I like Sophos Cyberoam UTM as a security component or device for organizations. Performance-wise, it's a satisfactory solution, and it works okay. It also has good features."
"Having a firewall solution with a data quota is very important when the bandwidth is limited, which really distinguishes it from other products."
"There are some cloud-based features that could be much more flexible than they currently are."
"The central management for the FortiGate Fortinet Firewall needs improvement. They have the manager to do the essential management for both SD-WAN and for the security policy. They should also improve the SD-WAN function."
"The product does need better support in the cloud environment. It's not exactly cloud-native right now."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"Currently, without the additional reporting module, we only have access to basic reporting."
"Monitoring and reporting could be better."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"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 needs to be more documentation that users can access to help them understand the solution or troubleshoot as necessary."
"It should have a better VPN client. We decided to find something different than Cyberoam because of the VPN client software. It would be nice to have a user interface not only in English but also in different languages."
"Maybe network traffic analysis for malware and malicious behavior."
"The following could be improved: Web Filtering using wildcards; clarity regarding the firewall rules; granular reporting features."
"It isn't missing anything."
"I would like to see improvements in the development of reports. The process needs to be made simple."
"Needs a mail alert/notification when the device loses any of its connections, during ISP redundancy implementation."
"The VPN is an area that can be improved."
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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