We performed a comparison between Sophos UTM and Sophos XGS 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."The ease of setting the solution up is a valuable aspect for us."
"The technical support in our region is excellent."
"User-friendly and affordable security solution that's recommended for SMB customers. This solution has good technical support."
"The web filtering feature and the intrusion protection system are the most valuable. It is a resilient appliance. I never had an issue with it in terms of any security breaches."
"We can detect any attack of viruses or malware at the first point of contact."
"We have been able to offer several services to customers in a single box."
"SSL-VPN is very useful for us and has been very reliable."
"The IPsec tunnels are very easily created, and quite interoperable with devices from other vendors."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the efficiency and mail filtering module."
"The intrusion prevention is great, and I like dual virus scanning on the network layer because we scan it through Avira and Sophos. Web filtering is also a fantastic option for clients who want to really lock down internet access."
"It helps us with protection, with concurrent use of the VPN."
"Sophos has a single pane of glass which allows me to manage all my VPCs from a single instance, managing all my firewall from one place."
"I would recommend UTM over XG because it's easier to manage."
"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."
"Sophos SG UTM had all the basic functionality that you needed. It is user-friendly and easy to manage for any integrator."
"It is easy to manage."
"The solution offers more antimalware and antivirus feeds than others."
"The product was easy for us to install."
"The most valuable features in Sophos XGS are bandwidth management, content filtering, and WAN link management failover. If one internet activity or one link would fail, automatically it will switch over to another one."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos XGS is the application control."
"The most valuable features of Sophos XGS are a set of functionalities that are quite commendable, they call it synchronized security, where all the solutions share defense lines with each other."
"The VPN is the best feature."
"The policies are the greatest feature. They allow us to configure granular control over our network traffic."
"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."
"It is quite new for us, and we need to go more in-depth into the monitoring tools. It provides different features that we need to do what we want. So far, it is okay for us. In terms of improvement, in the future, they can provide a faster implementation of features. Some of the features are first available in other solutions. Fortinet sometimes takes a little bit longer than other solutions, such as Check Point, to implement new features."
"The setup is pretty complex and not easy to implement."
"The solution could be more evenly structured."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"Tunnel flapping was one of the major things I had seen wherein your internet link remains but your VPN tunnel is down. However, since I got a fix from the TAC team, I have not noticed it, but the customer complained a few times that they couldn't access the internet because of this problem."
"Fortinet FortiGate can be integrated with different platforms. They have integrations in place, but I can't say they're 100%."
"The ease of use could be improved."
"The scalability of the product is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Stay away from the wireless models, since you cannot put them in HA. They start to give you some weird issues once you start getting into multiple SSIDs and networks."
"In short, the UI and UX are the areas of improvement in Sophos UTM and similar solutions compared to Palo Alto."
"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."
"It needs a better user interface. The one they have is not so good."
"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."
"Reporting: We have had to work manually in many of our reports."
"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."
"I would like to see a history of the monthly bandwidth utilization, the bandwidth consumption for a period of time."
"There are some issues with conversion and user roles when upgrading to Cyberoam."
"Sometimes, we haven't received proper support. They couldn't find the solutions that we required. One thing that we need is an NTP server facility. The Sophos XGS device does not have this capacity or this feature."
"The solution could be easier to manage and configure."
"The configurations can be a bit complex."
"There are some bugs relating to the product that allow VPN users to bypass the firewall."
"When it comes to different interfaces there is some speed issue that can be improved in Sophos XGS."
"Sophos XGS could improve by having better integration with Active Directory."
Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews while Sophos XGS is ranked 17th in Firewalls with 58 reviews. Sophos UTM is rated 8.4, while Sophos XGS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos XGS writes "Easy to use, simple to learn, and offers great reporting". Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Meraki MX, whereas Sophos XGS is most compared with Sophos XG, OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, WatchGuard Firebox and Check Point NGFW. See our Sophos UTM vs. Sophos XGS report.
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