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."I like the SSL VPN connection. Cyberoam works well for controlling users and authenticating their connection to the internet."
"The solution has good load balancers."
"User and network policies to be managed on a single screen with powerful filtering and search options."
"We have never had to restart a firewall. The firewalls have all worked perfectly fine."
"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."
"It is very easy to use."
"The solution's interface is user-friendly, and the web protection is good. The tool is highly stable. The product is scalable. The technical support is good. We chose Sophos Cyberoam UTM because their focus on security research is higher compared to other brands. It's an all-in-one solution with antivirus, EDR, wireless protection, and web protection integrated into one box. The initial setup was straightforward."
"Technical support is excellent."
"It's easy to use."
"The UTM features are reasonably strong and the patterns are updated on a regular basis"
"Technical support is very responsive."
"It has allowed us to design a bespoke cloud space for our clients, while still having an excellent level of protection."
"The most valuable feature is that it is easy to administer."
"The solution is scalable."
"The three most important features for us are web protection, web server protection, and network protection."
"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."
"The Traffic Discovery feature should allow administrators to disconnect unnecessary live connections."
"When it comes to web filtering and application filtering, it does not contain enough signatures to determine all of the sites that need to be blocked."
"The configuration requires an expert to be set up, so it could be made simpler."
"It isn't missing anything."
"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."
"Sometimes, users are timed out intermittently."
"The reports need to be more detailed and granular."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could have a more advanced reporting function."
"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."
"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."
"They could definitely improve on the support, especially in other countries."
"The interface configuration could be improved."
"In Sophos UTM there is always a problem with the routing tables. If you want to see the routing table, you have to use the UI. You can't do it via a web browser. The routing table is better in Fortinet."
"Finding information about Sophos’ sizing guidelines can actually be difficult. Also, Sophos does not make it clear what they mean by “users” when you are sizing a firewall, which then leads to undersized implementations."
"I think that additional metrics features are needed to be able to monitor other areas or to monitor as much as you can, at a fine-grain resolution."
"The reporting could be a lot 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, 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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