We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiOS 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."It is easy to manage, and it doesn't need much knowledge from the team. It is a stable device, and there are many features that are included out of the box."
"The solution can scale well."
"Our security improved from being able to put in rules and close off unwanted traffic."
"One of the valuable features is a standardized OS."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is load balancing. It can provide central management and VPNA. Additionally, it has enhanced our security environment."
"It does a lot for you for intrusion protection and as an antivirus. The threat management bundle is worth the money. You don't need another company to monitor your web traffic for you. You can do everything yourself on the firewall. You restrict your own black list for people on the firewall. You don't need to pay some other company for another product to do that for you. The firewall can do that for you. So, it's an easy-to-use product for people to be independent. They don't need to rely on other vendors to do what the firewall can do. They can do everything."
"Fortigate represents a really scalable way of delivering perimeter network security, some level of layer 7 security, WAF, and also a way to create a meshed ADVPN solution."
"The next-gen features, the unified threat management capabilities are something that just about everybody is interested in at this point."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are the ease of use and user-friendly interface."
"Performance-wise, I think FortiOS is much better than its Juniper counterpart. Based on our actual experience and performance metrics, FortiOS-based products are much better than Juniper."
"I find filtering traffic, filtering web traffic, session traffic, and managing the network as valuable features."
"The solution is extremely scalable."
"A good network security system for medium-sized businesses with an excellent GUI interface that gives a graphic view of network status."
"The initial setup is easy. It's the easiest firewall installation process on the market. I work with three or four other products and this one is the easiest."
"For ten to 12 years it has been quite secure."
"For my organization, it has become much easier to scan the firewalls because the solution is more user-friendly than competitors."
"Sophos UTM is the simplest of these products to setup."
"It is not an easy task to protect your web servers from the big bad internet. The Web Server Protection in this solution does it elegantly and, if configured correctly, even hides the server's base system from prying eyes."
"Configuration could not be made any easier."
"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 is a stable product... I rate the solution's technical support a nine out of ten...The initial setup is quite easy because they have all the information on their website."
"It helps us with protection, with concurrent use of the VPN."
"The isolation of infected machines is a big feature. Also, the ability to detect external sources that change files on a file server is really big."
"The firewall itself is very strong and provides great security."
"They have to just improve its performance when we enable all UTM features. When you enable all the features, the performance of FortiGate, as well as of Sophos and SonicWall, goes down."
"The pricing could always be better."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"Some configuration elements cannot be easily altered once created."
"The feedback that I have received is that the performance could be better, and the user experience is not as good compared to a previous solution we used. It could be more user-friendly. Of course, it still works fine for our operations."
"The integration with third-party tools may be something that they should work on."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"Fortinet's central management needs to be improved. FortiManager's technical tool provider ability should manage all Fortinet security products. Right now, FortiManager only manages the configuration of FortiGate."
"The support could be improved, Fortinet's response time is very slow. Setting up the VPN could be made much easier, especially when deployed with Azure."
"In the future I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards and a drop in the price."
"The support is not very good, but the product is stable so it is not so much of a problem."
"I would like to see smaller and more frequent updates."
"Real-time threat monitoring is not there."
"Fortinet FortiOS's integration could be improved."
"The complexity of the VPNs should be improved."
"We need to speed up the support."
"The solution needs to do better at covering mobile devices, although they may have an integrated solution for that purpose."
"They could use more SSL VPN support."
"It is a pretty straightforward setup, but it should be some sort of documentation that takes you step-by-step to help set it up for your VPC."
"The initial setup was straightforward. The full deployment takes approximately two days which could be simplified to reduce the time. The major part of the process is the configuration and the policy setup."
"VPN needs IKEv2, but it’s in the roadmap. Also, all new, cool features will only come to the new Sophos XG Firewall."
"I would like some features that are available in other brands. For example, I sometimes a person is using too much bandwidth, and it isn't easy to find this information in Sophos. Also, we have to switch connections manually when we are using a VPN and lose the MPLS connection. It isn't automatic."
"The documentation during the AWS integration was a little fuzzy on getting it to work with how the whole public exposure versus private exposure, then routing some of the traffic."
Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiWeb, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection and Darktrace, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Fortinet FortiOS vs. Sophos UTM report.
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