We performed a comparison between Sophos Cyberoam UTM and Sophos UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I found that the best feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is reporting. Its reporting feature is excellent, fast, and easy to prep and launch."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM is used for perimeter security, web filtering, intrusion prevention and as a VPN."
"It has been working fine. You just turn it on, and it works."
"The main features I have found best are the load balancer and ease of use."
"You can geofence yourself if there is an incoming attack or a continuous ping from a company outside your country."
"The solution works perfectly without any users."
"In some circumstances, the malware functionality is the most important feature, and in other cases, some other features."
"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."
"The stability of Sophos UTM is very good. The solution has been stable since Sophos took over Cyberoam which was the original company providing this solution."
"Advanced protection (Sophos Sandstorm) - Protects against crypto viruses in real-time."
"We've found the technical support to be helpful."
"The solution's sandboxing, application center, and database engine are good."
"The most valuable feature is that it is easy to administer."
"Sophos integrates seamlessly, and we don't even feel it is running in the background."
"It has helped by identifying threats within the company. If there are computers or servers that are compromised, then we are able to identify them right away in the system."
"We use Sophos UTM as our main firewall with all its features included. Mainly, it controls all of our network perimeter security: firewall, IDS/IPS, and web application firewall (including VoIP)."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could have a more advanced reporting function."
"The product needs to improve its pricing."
"There is a lot or room for improvement, because it is still not a fourth or fifth generation firewall. It lacks security features."
"On-box sandstorm should be available. As of now, it is from their cloud."
"In my experience the solution can be easier to configure with more documentation, we need more training."
"The solution is at its end of life and some of the appliances are finishing."
"There needs to be more documentation that users can access to help them understand the solution or troubleshoot as necessary."
"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."
"We need to speed up the support."
"Flexibility in pricing could be improved. It's more rigid in its pricing compared to its competitor: Kaspersky."
"Sophos UTM sometimes falls short in high-availability environments. They used to launch firmware that didn't work very well in a high-availability environment."
"We had some problems with the configuration. They had provided a CloudFormation template, and we had to go several rounds to make it work."
"The application control is really bad. It needs a lot of enhancements. The traffic shaping and bandwidth control, and application control need a lot of work."
"There can be a delay when it comes to reaching out to technical support."
"The virus updates will always depend on new viruses that are discovered. Maybe they can send a notification or a reminder for update time."
"The interface configuration could be improved."
Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Sophos Cyberoam UTM writes "Stable and has a straightforward setup; reporting is fast and easy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Netgate pfSense, Cisco Secure Firewall, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Untangle NG Firewall, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Fortinet FortiGate, Sophos XG, OPNsense and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Sophos Cyberoam UTM vs. Sophos UTM report.
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