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."The solution is excellent for web and application filtering and remote access with the VPN."
"There are plenty of features that are valuable in the Sophos Cyberoam UTM. We use all the features, such as email Security, firewall rules, web server security, web devices, web protection."
"I'm more inclined towards the conventional firewall. So for me, I'm more geared towards the standard firewall type functionalities as well as the web application firewall because that seems to work fine."
"For a small-medium enterprise this solution is easy to manage and operate."
"The port forwarding is good."
"The security capabilities are okay."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM is used for perimeter security, web filtering, intrusion prevention and as a VPN."
"I find Sophos Cyberoam UTM very good. I like the feature of being able to block off Mac IDs that host users. For example, you have a Mac or Windows laptop and you created a hotspot. Other devices like mobiles and tablets e.g. iPads connected to that hotspot. We can block those devices that connected to the hotspot we created, only through Sophos. It's a good feature we didn't find in other UTMs."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the firewall application and application control."
"An easy solution to learn because the graphics are very intuitive."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the efficiency and mail filtering module."
"We find all of the features valuable because together they fit the needs of our customers."
"Has great security features and does a good job of protecting the network."
"They are all good, but most-used are Network Protection and Web Filtering."
"It is a very good product. The threat monitoring process is the most valuable feature."
"Good basic firewall functions with advanced firewall scanning."
"The product needs to improve its pricing."
"The technical support response time could be faster."
"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."
"There is a lot or room for improvement, because it is still not a fourth or fifth generation firewall. It lacks security features."
"The product’s pricing has increased by approximately 45% in four months. This particular area needs improvement."
"The blocking needs to be improved."
"The price is obviously a more sensitive area to focus on."
"Cyberoam UTM needs to have more certifications with third-parties, such as NSS Labs."
"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 initial setup may be difficult for those not familiar with the product."
"The reporting system needs to allow for customizations because many reports do not include details that we expect."
"Support for IKEv2 is needed in this solution."
"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 would like to have unique viewable IDs for rules and in the packet filter logfile, for easier debugging of old log files."
"The memory and processing were problematic. The interface could be better."
"Sophos should be more user-friendly, have more dashboards, and an easier implementation."
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 Sophos XG, 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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