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's web filtering is an important feature for us in our company."
"The product has helped control bandwidth utilization, as well as enhanced connectivity and security to remote locations."
"The product is easy to maintain."
"I found that the best feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is reporting. Its reporting feature is excellent, fast, and easy to prep and launch."
"Web application filtering eases internet access control."
"The most valuable feature of this product is the threat protection."
"User and network policies to be managed on a single screen with powerful filtering and search options."
"The security capabilities are okay."
"It gives us the ability to manage our firewalls from the cloud and deploy a unified configuration onto them. Other competitors like Meraki have that ability, but they fail to optimize it in the way that Sophos has."
"UTM 9 brings along IPSec as well as iPhone and iPad support. This seems small but it’s useful."
"The features that I've known to be most valuable are both the web security features as well as the web firewall capabilities. As a partner of Sophos firewall, we have some clients and they are using Sophos firewall UTM and we are using it as well."
"The most valuable feature is that it is easy to administer."
"The cost of the solution is very reasonable."
"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 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."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the simple-to-use interface."
"I don't know whether this will be included in an upgrade, but I would like to get the user utility, like seeing where the users are using more of the data."
"The documentation is not straightforward."
"It should have better VPN protection. Some of the VPN applications are not blocked by this firewall. Some VPNs are able to get through this firewall, which is why I am planning to replace this firewall with a good one in the near future."
"The product’s pricing has increased by approximately 45% in four months. This particular area needs improvement."
"The implementation policy needs improvment."
"Hence, it needs to be easier to configure rules using the solution."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could improve by adding VPN site-to-site capabilities. The correct version does not work with Microsoft Azure Cloud."
"The configuration requires an expert to be set up, so it could be made simpler."
"There is still room for improvement in wireless protection. I don't mean their WiFi device is bad, but there are still things to improve on, such as WiFi roaming."
"It is a little too CPU resource intensive, so we would like to see improvements there."
"The classification segregation of applications lacks sufficient definition."
"Initially, there were issues with the wireless network as wireless access points were disappearing from the dashboard after some time."
"The support could be better."
"The reporting could improve by providing information on where, or from which device attacks are coming from. We are already given the country where the attack is coming from but more information would be beneficial."
"Updates come out agonizingly slowly, a trickle."
"I would like to see the SD-WAN feature 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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