We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate-VM and Sophos UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Their interface is very easy to use, it is without bugs."
"The main reason why I purchased the particular unit was that it had good reviews and what other people were saying as far as its completeness and its leading capabilities in terms of endpoint security was very good."
"Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"This solution made it very easy to manage our bandwidth."
"We can use our devices to check all of the perimeters. It secures email websites."
"Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"The solution is scalable."
"The support is good. We don't have any issues with the technical support."
"The most valuables features are the ease of use and deployment."
"It is very versatile."
"It provides an ease of management and configuration as well."
"The reporting is good."
"FortiGate integrates well."
"The standard features, including the filtering, are quite good. All the basic features are pretty useful for us."
"The IPS module is my favorite because of the security advantage reached with a few clicks and its automatic updates."
"Monitoring and reporting are areas that need improvement."
"The solution's sandboxing, application center, and database engine are good."
"It allows me to easily connect with more than forty-five remote sites and more than fifty remote users between IPsec and SSL VPN, applying the web filter and application filter to ensure a secure connection."
"It's a stable solution."
"Sophos UTM is very user-friendly and has good integration with other solutions."
"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."
"The three most important features for us are web protection, web server protection, and network protection."
"The most valuable features of the solution are application filtering and web filtering."
"There were quite a few problems with the stability of the system."
"The firmware needs improvement because there are bugs when a new release comes through. Sometimes, the configuration changes, and it's a bit harder to see where the fail is. The first time that you have the firmware, it tends to have some issues, and it's better to wait a bit to update the equipment."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"It is stable, but its stability can be improved."
"Its reporting capabilities can be improved. It should have some out-of-the-box reporting capabilities and some degree of customization. The basic reporting that it currently has is not sufficient to create more usable reports. It needs some sort of out-of-the-box reporting. They try to make customers purchase FortiAnalyzer for this kind of reporting, which is an additional cost. Other firewall vendors, such as SonicWall and Sophos, provide this sort of reporting without any additional cost."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"The solution can have more features in a single box that can be multi-applied to integrate everything."
"Some features of Fortinet FortiGate are actually fee enabled that are inconvenient for deploying in production. Other issues relate to isolation with Cisco products and your server."
"If I could add one feature, it would be free security profiles."
"The product does not have a good graphical interface."
"We have had some stability issues."
"The users must buy FortiSIEM to get advanced analytics."
"The key activation is very complicated at times."
"The scalability feature of the solution has certain shortcomings, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The user interface could be improved."
"his is not a good solution for enterprises. It's better for smaller companies."
"The interface configuration could be improved."
"We had some problems with the configuration. They had provided a CloudFormation template, and we had to go several rounds to make it work."
"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 lack of import/export functions for network and service options drives me mad."
"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 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 sometimes falls short in high-availability environments. They used to launch firmware that didn't work very well in a high-availability environment."
"The virus updates will always depend on new viruses that are discovered. Maybe they can send a notification or a reminder for update time."
Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 113 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate-VM is rated 8.4, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate-VM writes "An easy-to-manage and configure tool that provides ample documentation to help with the setup phase". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Fortinet FortiOS, OPNsense and Sophos XG, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Fortinet FortiGate-VM vs. Sophos UTM report.
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