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 valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the different types of profiling. It has been the most effective for me. The WAF and the antivirus profile are the most effective in network protection."
"It is easy to use and performs very well."
"The secure web gateway module and the application control module are valuable. HA operations are very easy."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is good to use, and most importantly, the pricing. The customer especially likes the discount when they trade up or something like that."
"The most valuable features are the policies, filtering, and configuration."
"Their interface is very easy to use, it is without bugs."
"The solution is highly scalable because they have devices that can handle a large amount of traffic."
"The Fortinet FortiGate local partners were good. I did not have direct contact with Fortinet support."
"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 interface is user-friendly."
"Web Filtering and Application Filtering saves a lot of my bandwidth and improves the user's productivity."
"The solution is excellent for web and application filtering and remote access with the VPN."
"We consider the user level and control features of Sophos Cyberoam UTM to be the best."
"The product has helped control bandwidth utilization, as well as enhanced connectivity and security to remote locations."
"I like the SSL VPN connection. Cyberoam works well for controlling users and authenticating their connection to the internet."
"We are using it as a security shield. It does not allow access before that in case we have restricted a few things from users, so it helps me in that."
"The most valuable feature of this product is the threat protection."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"I'm not sure if it's something that they already have or are developing something, however, we need some dedicated features for container security."
"It can be a little bit more user-friendly in terms of policy definition and implementation. It seems a little bit complicated, and it could be simplified."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"The routing capability on the FortiGate devices has room for improvement."
"For the migration, everyone has a firewall in use and I am selling Fortinet. Typically, I am replacing another firewall. Previously, there was a tool available to convert configurations from one firewall, such as Palo Alto, to Fortinet, but this tool is no longer free. If it could be made free again, it would be very beneficial."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"It would be nice if FortiGate incorporated some built-in endpoint protection features. I would also like a built-in SOC dashboard for managing multiple Fortinet firewalls."
"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 product had a hang issue. We needed to reboot, recreate the image, and reconfigure the previous image because the product hanged frequently."
"Maybe network traffic analysis for malware and malicious behavior."
"The Traffic Discovery feature should allow administrators to disconnect unnecessary live connections."
"The reporting part could be more user-friendly for troubleshooting and identifying network issues. It should be more easy for a normal user to identify the problem in their network."
"The solution had a feature to import users from a CSV file. However, the latest version does not have that option."
"In my experience the solution can be easier to configure with more documentation, we need more training."
"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."
"Sometimes, users are timed out intermittently."
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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