We performed a comparison between McAfee StoneGate [EOL] and Sophos UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The security features are about the best that I've seen anywhere."
"Security, SD-WAN, and Streetscape are valuable features."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"I am "headache free" that I don't have to categorize all the websites and that security has been pre categorized by the people, and that the services are getting updated. At least one part of my problem is over."
"Fortinet FortiGate has many valuable features, such as IDS, and intrusion detection. It has security features that are in part with the technologies that are available in the market."
"I like Fortinet FortiGate's antispam filter, SPN, and clustering features."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"The initial setup of Fortinet FortiGate was straightforward."
"It works well with a highly-active cluster."
"We did not have issues with scalabiliy."
"Stability-wise, I rate this solution a ten out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate this solution a ten out of ten."
"The product is extremely intuitive."
"The cost of the solution is very reasonable."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the endpoint protection feature."
"The solution is scalable."
"Sophos SG UTM had all the basic functionality that you needed. It is user-friendly and easy to manage for any integrator."
"I have no problem with the cost or licensing of this solution. This is a primary reason whay I wanted this solution. It does the same thing cheaper than other name brands."
"The UTM features are reasonably strong and the patterns are updated on a regular basis"
"Its reporting and pricing need improvement."
"We were not able to build a full-mesh VPN; however, I am not sure if this was the fault of Fortinet FortiGate."
"A lack of integration between our data centers."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"The monitor and the visibility, in this proxy, is very weak."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"After some experience with the solution, we had to do some redesign, but generally, we were happy with the product."
"The technical support only communicates via email. I would prefer to communicate directly with someone."
"I would like to see the SD-WAN feature improved."
"The management suite is easy and the agent is easy to develop."
"The logs are not clear, which means that you need an additional piece of software in order to read them clearly."
"It does have built-in policies, which enable you to disable USB devices, etc. It would be nice if they had more policies because there are not that many of them."
"The ease of use could be a bit better."
"When we call support, we get put on hold for a long time."
"There's an issue that when we deploy UTM on fiber, it automatically upgrades to the latest version without giving an option to stay on the current one."
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McAfee StoneGate [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is rated 7.0, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of McAfee StoneGate [EOL] writes "The HA cluster had issues during deployment, but the solution gives us better application control than with our previous solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall.
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