We performed a comparison between Perimeter 81 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."Consolidated our network environment at all locations, but mainly at our datacenter."
"I like how we can achieve total integration."
"The product offers very good security."
"Overall, the pricing of the solution is very good. The product offers good value."
"Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"The UTM feature is quite good. FortiAP is easy to deploy because both Fortigate and FortiAP are under the same brand. Otherwise, you need to do more work on the configuration."
"Fortigate's most valuable feature is that it doesn't need a push policy when writing rules."
"The most valuable feature is the policy routing and application control."
"Distributing the agent was very simple, allowing us to enforce security posture on our devices (i.e. S1, Disk-encryption, etc.)."
"Perimeter 81 has increased my security and privacy while maintaining solid internet performance."
"Scaling Perimeter 81 was easy to do."
"The feature that I have found to be most valuable is the reputation that the company has regarding privacy. Nowadays, this is critical, especially when you do all of your work online."
"The solution provides us with an easy way to configure and join the VPN with Perimeter 81."
"SD-WAN is one of the primary solutions offered by Perimeter 81."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Providing access and security allows our company employees to work from home and remotely."
"It is easy to manage."
"Configuration troubleshooting is eased by the use of the color-coded, live firewall log."
"Good basic firewall functions with advanced firewall scanning."
"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 UTM features are reasonably strong and the patterns are updated on a regular basis"
"Sophos UTM provides security for our network here and access through a VPN connection for our remote users. It also offers the flexibility to create different tools for accessibility."
"Has great security features and does a good job of protecting the network."
"It works well without any maintenance. So far, it has worked pretty well regardless of the traffic."
"It should come integrated or have its own type of network monitor tool in a module. There should just be one package, and you are good to go."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more storage in the hardware for log data."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"Improvement is needed in the Web Filter quotas to restrict users with allocated quotas."
"Performance and technical support are the main issues with this solution."
"With the addition of some features, it is possible that FortiGate can be used in all verticals."
"They should improve the interface to make it more user-friendly."
"One area for improvement is the performance on bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"What would be useful would be a notification/warning that a session is due to timeout after exceeding the default connection limit."
"One of our challenges is ensuring the security of our cloud-based operations."
"Currently, I am not able to define a different country or location, which can result in negative experiences as the tool is being recognized by websites and this can make it difficult to access them or force me to disable the program temporarily."
"A Google Chrome extension would be handy instead of logging into the app."
"One of the more negative experiences using Perimeter 81 is the fact that I am logged off after a pre-determined amount of time which cuts off access to some of my company's resources."
"I'd love to learn more about all of the features. Maybe a monthly spotlight of features or having a banner that explains more ways certain features could be used would be helpful."
"The overall UI could be improved and updated to bring a simpler feel to the application."
"There is a very small amount of downtime."
"When we call support, we get put on hold for a long time."
"There needs to be some improvement in the IPsec VPN. There is implementation only support. I have version one. I'd be most interested in having IP version two from the protocol."
"We need to speed up the support."
"Last year, Sophos had some major internal management changes that negatively impacted their support."
"The solution needs better integration with captive portals and XGs."
"Email spam filtering only works if you have an on-prem Exchange server. It doesn't interface with Office 365 like the XG model. That would be one feature that they could improve. They're not going to do it because they're trying to push us all to XG."
"The application control is really bad. It needs a lot of enhancements. The traffic shaping and bandwidth control, and application control need a lot of work."
"The solution could be improved by adding cloud soundboxing."
Perimeter 81 is ranked 11th in Firewalls with 22 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Perimeter 81 is rated 9.2, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Perimeter 81 writes "Great SAML and SCIM support with the ability to deploy site-2-site tunnels with specific IP restrictions". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Perimeter 81 is most compared with Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, Cato SASE Cloud Platform, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Cloudflare Access and Tailscale, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Perimeter 81 vs. Sophos UTM report.
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