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 user interface is relatively easy. The devices are easy to deploy and figure out when you have experience with other security appliances."
"In terms of security, we have not experienced any security flaws or loopholes, and it has proven to be quite stable."
"It blocks the vulnerabilities that can negatively impact us."
"Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution."
"The stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtering testing applications, web filtering, and the new VPN."
"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."
"Web Filtering and Application Filtering saves a lot of my bandwidth and improves the user's productivity."
"Web and content filtering are valuable in preventing people from abusing the network and pushing up the bandwidth price."
"The solution's web filtering is an important feature for us in our company."
"Its portal is user-friendly. I am able to manage the user data and access control through this device."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"The tool's robust features allow for the customization of policies, objects, and firewall settings."
"The product is a simple and user-friendly UTM that can handle accounting, reporting, firewall, IPS, and antivirus for industries."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM is used for perimeter security, web filtering, intrusion prevention and as a VPN."
"Fortinet currently has many products bundled with FortiGate including the basic firewall and load balancer, and I think that that they need to have separate product portfolios for each of these specialized services."
"The solution needs to improve its integration with cybersecurity."
"In some cases, its initial setup could be hard for customers."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"It is very expensive, and their support is not very good. I hope that their technical support will be better in the future."
"The integration with third-party tools may be something that they should work on."
"When we cluster the two Fortinet FortiGate boxes together we have some issues."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"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."
"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."
"The product’s pricing has increased by approximately 45% in four months. This particular area needs improvement."
"The product needs to improve its pricing."
"The configuration requires an expert to be set up, so it could be made simpler."
"I would like to see real-time alerts on traffic insights."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could have a more advanced reporting function."
"Network visibility is an area in the solution with shortcomings where improvements can be made."
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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