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."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."
"Web Filtering and Application Filtering saves a lot of my bandwidth and improves the user's productivity."
"The firewall feature has different branches, such as extended firewalls."
"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."
"SD-WAN and IPSec features are valuable to me."
"The solution works perfectly without any users."
"The solution's web filtering is an important feature for us in our company."
"The most valuable feature is the solution is easy to configure for users."
"Sophos UTM has improved the porting section. It has improved security by seeing the gaps. For example, when you discover that an entry has been using a certain application, with Sophos UTM acting as a Layer 7 firewall, you can block the application, not the port."
"Sophos UTM's best feature is SIM in the cloud, which combines the gateway solution and endpoint solution to send telemetry data to the cloud and provides full contact visibility regarding security."
"Sophos is a unified solution. We have anti-virus protection, firewall rules, knotting, and DACC all in one box."
"The scalability is good."
"It is a stable product... I rate the solution's technical support a nine out of ten...The initial setup is quite easy because they have all the information on their website."
"Sophos UTM has a good user interface and granular security controls."
"We find all of the features valuable because together they fit the needs of our customers."
"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."
"The solution is at its end of life and some of the appliances are finishing."
"The data support response time should be improved."
"Maybe network traffic analysis for malware and malicious behavior."
"I would like to see real-time alerts on traffic insights."
"The VPN is an area that can be improved."
"The implementation policy needs improvment."
"The reporting should be improved as well as the backup."
"The Traffic Discovery feature should allow administrators to disconnect unnecessary live connections."
"The reporting could be a lot better."
"Anti-phishing functionality should be improved."
"The initial setup may be difficult for those not familiar with the product."
"Last year, Sophos had some major internal management changes that negatively impacted their support."
"Sophos UTM could improve if there was no limitation on users."
"The solution needs better integration with captive portals and XGs."
"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."
"The solution needs to do better at covering mobile devices, although they may have an integrated solution for that purpose."
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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