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 network security and cloud security are most valuable."
"This solution made it very easy to manage our bandwidth."
"The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtering testing applications, web filtering, and the new VPN."
"Security management tool that's easy to integrate and easy to work with. No issues found with its stability and scalability."
"The base firewall features are quite valuable to us."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature is the web filter."
"Fortinet FortiGate is stable. It's used across all the countries, this is the way most multinationals run their system."
"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."
"Its portal is user-friendly. I am able to manage the user data and access control through this device."
"The reporting features are very good."
"I like the SSL VPN connection. Cyberoam works well for controlling users and authenticating their connection to the internet."
"The product is easy to maintain."
"Content filtering, as this enables me to control that which employees can view at different time quotas."
"In terms of features and user-friendliness, the solution is good. It’s very stable. The solution is scalable. In Sophos Cyberoam UTM, the most valuable features are web and application filtering, routing functionalities, and VPN. It has helped us manage the bandwidth."
"It is very easy to use."
"Web application filtering eases internet access control."
"Improvement is needed in the Web Filter quotas to restrict users with allocated quotas."
"The platform's interface could improve."
"Scalability for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be improved. SD-WAN security for this solution also needs some improvement."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"It is very expensive, and their support is not very good. I hope that their technical support will be better in the future."
"Some configuration elements cannot be easily altered once created."
"We had a minor problem where there was a major system upgrade on the hardware platfrom and the Mac client was not available as soon as it might have been. The PC client was available immediately, but we had to wait a month or so, before there was a mac client. I was slightly irritated that it was not ready on time, but it was eventually resolved."
"The renewal price and the availability could be improved."
"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."
"The data support response time should be improved."
"We use different workarounds and find different solutions for it, depending on the client's needs. We shouldn't have to, we should just be able to use the product as it comes with Cyberoam, rather than having to revert to other products."
"The product had a hang issue. We needed to reboot, recreate the image, and reconfigure the previous image because the product hanged frequently."
"There is a lot or room for improvement, because it is still not a fourth or fifth generation firewall. It lacks security features."
"I had an issue when I was trying to stop a user from using too much bandwidth while I was using Azure, I was not able to stop them."
"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 solution could be cheaper."
"Its scalability is not that great."
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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 Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Sophos UTM and SonicWall NSa.
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