We performed a comparison between Meraki MX and Sophos Cyberoam 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."It has a helpful feature for database troubleshooting issues."
"Easy to administer and saves time when you have many smaller locations that you have to manage."
"Its ease of configuration and management is very useful for us and for other companies that don't have an onsite IT person. It is easy to configure and easy to manage. It is easy to configure the VPN with the Auto VPN feature."
"It prevents us from being hacked and delivers information about who and where the attack came from."
"The product is quite secure, easy to manage, and well-connected with other devices."
"Very easy to use and navigate."
"They have very good technical support and I have relied heavily on them."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"Web and content filtering are valuable in preventing people from abusing the network and pushing up the bandwidth price."
"Web Filtering and Application Filtering saves a lot of my bandwidth and improves the user's productivity."
"Bandwidth Management and aggregation. It is valuable for combining two ISPs. Switching to a secondary/redundant ISP is thus seamless, in the event that the primary ISP goes down. The Bandwidth Management is also valuable for limiting heavy downloaders that may impact negatively on the experience of other users."
"The performance has been good overall."
"The most valuable feature is the IPSec forwarding."
"There are plenty of features available, such as Full Guard and WAN."
"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."
"For a small-medium enterprise this solution is easy to manage and operate."
"It is very expensive."
"They need to improve the link between Meraki and Active Directory."
"The security is not as strong as it could be"
"It would be nice if the different services, including the SIEM SOC and endpoint detection and response (EDR) were integrated into one, so that I don't have to go to different vendors for different services."
"In the next release, because the security is pretty basic, I think they could include additional security features."
"Load balancing options and ability to manage a couple of Internet connections."
"Right now, you can postpone the update but eventually, if you don't do the update, it will install the updates automatically for you and that's something that is not working for me."
"The product doesn't support route summarization and BGP dynamic routing protocol."
"The documentation is not straightforward."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM has room for improvement in specific rules-based objects and redesign. The solution also needs to improve in adding rules and policies, including renewing and finding policies."
"The product strategy of the manufacturer is strange. I don't understand what they are doing in that regard."
"On-box sandstorm should be available. As of now, it is from their cloud."
"Cyberoam configuration is done through the browser, which is one of the places that viruses spread."
"The reports need to be more detailed and granular."
"In my experience the solution can be easier to configure with more documentation, we need more training."
"Technical support could be faster."
Meraki MX is ranked 2nd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 57 reviews while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews. Meraki MX is rated 8.2, while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Meraki MX writes "Cost-effective, simplified, easy to manage, and reliable with advanced security features and granular visibility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Cyberoam UTM writes "Stable and has a straightforward setup; reporting is fast and easy". Meraki MX is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos XG and SonicWall TZ, whereas Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Sophos UTM. See our Meraki MX vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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