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."Having a firewall solution with a data quota is very important when the bandwidth is limited, which really distinguishes it from other products."
"The most valuable feature is the solution is easy to configure for users."
"All in one UTM appliance."
"You can geofence yourself if there is an incoming attack or a continuous ping from a company outside your country."
"The firewall feature has different branches, such as extended firewalls."
"In some circumstances, the malware functionality is the most important feature, and in other cases, some other features."
"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 feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is the SD-WAN gateway."
"With Sophos, we have not had any incidents this year. The security provided has been good. It has proven to be okay for our needs."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature is the IPS. It also protects us from malware."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is reporting, it is flexible. I can monitor the end user's devices, even when they are not on my network. It has good drill-down capabilities."
"Installing Sophos UTM is straightforward. The deployment itself doesn't take long, but you have to spend some time planning and waiting for the hardware to be delivered."
"Stability-wise, I rate this solution a ten out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate this solution a ten out of ten."
"We've found the technical support to be helpful."
"Cyberoam UTM needs to have more certifications with third-parties, such as NSS Labs."
"The data support response time should be improved."
"I would like to see improvements in the development of reports. The process needs to be made simple."
"I would like to see real-time alerts on traffic insights."
"What needs improvement in Sophos Cyberoam UTM is openness in the competition among Sophos partners or any other Sophos product. Another area for improvement in the solution is pricing. It could be cheaper."
"The technical support response time could be faster."
"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 setup is a bit complex, so we needed help from a consultant."
"Sophos customer support could use some improvement."
"Sophos should be more user-friendly, have more dashboards, and an easier implementation."
"The reporting could be a lot better."
"I would like to see Sophos UTM add support for all the new threat-detection technologies and the ability to respond to novel security threats that come along every day."
"Sophos UTM could improve if there was no limitation on users."
"This product could use some improvement with web filtering. It takes a lot of time and effort to set up and maintain."
"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."
"Sophos UTM's internet security could be better."
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, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and SonicWall NSa, 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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