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."We consider the user level and control features of Sophos Cyberoam UTM to be the best."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"It has been working fine. You just turn it on, and it works."
"For a small-medium enterprise this solution is easy to manage and operate."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM is used for perimeter security, web filtering, intrusion prevention and as a VPN."
"It is very easy to use."
"The firewall feature has different branches, such as extended firewalls."
"The tool's robust features allow for the customization of policies, objects, and firewall settings."
"The initial setup is easy."
"UTM 9 brings along IPSec as well as iPhone and iPad support. This seems small but it’s useful."
"The UTM features are reasonably strong and the patterns are updated on a regular basis"
"Sophos has a single pane of glass which allows me to manage all my VPCs from a single instance, managing all my firewall from one place."
"The initial setup has been fine."
"Advanced protection (Sophos Sandstorm) - Protects against crypto viruses in real-time."
"Sophos UTM provides security for our network here and access through a VPN connection for our remote users. It also offers the flexibility to create different tools for accessibility."
"We've found the technical support to be helpful."
"The product fails to provide proper reports, making it an area where improvements are required."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could have a more advanced reporting function."
"In my experience the solution can be easier to configure with more documentation, we need more training."
"The solution had a feature to import users from a CSV file. However, the latest version does not have that option."
"The Traffic Discovery feature should allow administrators to disconnect unnecessary live connections."
"There is a lot or room for improvement, because it is still not a fourth or fifth generation firewall. It lacks security features."
"I would like to see real-time alerts on traffic insights."
"The VPN is an area that can be improved."
"The only time we face a problem or issues is when we place a ticket. We have found that response is very slow."
"The documentation during the AWS integration was a little fuzzy on getting it to work with how the whole public exposure versus private exposure, then routing some of the traffic."
"It does have built-in policies, which enable you to disable USB devices, etc. It would be nice if they had more policies because there are not that many of them."
"Needs to improve the certificate management (ex. Let's Encrypt support)."
"The interface configuration could be improved."
"There were a lot of features and functionality in Sophos SG UTM but nothing was state of the art in terms of technology. You did not get the latest functions. It was very monolithic as it was based on an old Linux PuTTY system."
"I would like to see the SD-WAN feature improved."
"Anti-phishing functionality should 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 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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