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 reporting features are very good."
"The most valuable feature is the IPSec forwarding."
"It is very easy to use."
"The performance has been good overall."
"The best feature is the flexibility the product offers, in terms of remote access. What we had before was a decentralized mechanism in our organization, but after having this product we were able to get the remote locations into the same LAN. We were able to control the bandwidth and were able to take virtual access of those machines and give them the support, as and when required."
"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."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM is used for perimeter security, web filtering, intrusion prevention and as a VPN."
"Our customers find it economical and offers good security. These two features are key. Ease of installation and implementation are also key factors."
"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."
"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."
"It does not take much effort or thinking to understand how it works."
"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."
"This is a very stable product."
"Sophos UTM is the simplest of these products to setup."
"Sophos UTM has a good user interface and granular security controls."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the efficiency and mail filtering module."
"Needs a mail alert/notification when the device loses any of its connections, during ISP redundancy implementation."
"I would like to see real-time alerts on traffic insights."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could improve by adding VPN site-to-site capabilities. The correct version does not work with Microsoft Azure Cloud."
"The reports need to be more detailed and granular."
"The technical support response time could be faster."
"The solution's pricing could be a problem for some small businesses."
"Sophos VPN connectivity could be improved, as it can be lengthy, and users take longer to connect"
"There needs to be more documentation that users can access to help them understand the solution or troubleshoot as necessary."
"I am going to flat out say technical support is terrible. Being a Platinum level customer, I am not happy with the support."
"We would like to have unique viewable IDs for rules and in the packet filter logfile, for easier debugging of old log files."
"The support could be better."
"We need to speed up the support."
"In short, the UI and UX are the areas of improvement in Sophos UTM and similar solutions compared to Palo Alto."
"We'd like to see them offer their services on mobile devices like tablets. I'm not sure if that's an option or not."
"Last year, Sophos had some major internal management changes that negatively impacted their support."
"Stay away from the wireless models, since you cannot put them in HA. They start to give you some weird issues once you start getting into multiple SSIDs and networks."
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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