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 most valuable feature is the solution is easy to configure for users."
"The solution has good load balancers."
"The main features I have found best are the load balancer and ease of use."
"I believe it's the advanced security software that offers SMPP protection for the agent."
"In some circumstances, the malware functionality is the most important feature, and in other cases, some other features."
"Cyberoam UTM's most valuable feature is that it can be configured any way you like."
"The most valuable feature of this product is the threat protection."
"The firewall feature has different branches, such as extended firewalls."
"If a computer does get infected the Sophos appliance lets us know via it's Advanced Threat Protection so we can get a much faster response time."
"Advanced protection (Sophos Sandstorm) - Protects against crypto viruses in real-time."
"It is a very good product. The threat monitoring process is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable features of Sophos UTM are the ease of use, it is very user-friendly. You can understand what they implement in the new firmware, and it's easy to manage the firewalls."
"The initial configuration is straightforward thanks to the web GUI. In 30 minutes, you can have a running firewall with UTM protection enabled."
"The solution can scale."
"I would recommend UTM over XG because it's easier to manage."
"It makes it a lot easier for us to maintain things. Prior to it, things were more difficult. This means less time on us. We can focus on other things. The recovery is more in man-hours for us than anything else."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could have a more advanced reporting function."
"The product’s pricing has increased by approximately 45% in four months. This particular area needs improvement."
"The blocking needs to be improved."
"I would like to see real-time alerts on traffic insights."
"It is not a scalable product. This is because if you want to increase the capacity of the solution, then you have to change the device."
"The setup is a bit complex, so we needed help from a consultant."
"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."
"Hence, it needs to be easier to configure rules using the solution."
"As it stands right now, when we have an internet failure on WAN1, it takes several minutes before our WAN2 connection picks up the traffic"
"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."
"The solution's technical support for India needs to be improved."
"It's stable, but the reaction time of the GUI is terrible."
"It needs a better user interface. The one they have is not so good."
"It would be nice if it had basic features, such as DLP (Data Loss Prevention)."
"Last year, Sophos had some major internal management changes that negatively impacted their support."
"It is a little too CPU resource intensive, so we would like to see improvements there."
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 Untangle NG Firewall, 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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