We performed a comparison between Sophos UTM and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway 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."The firewall itself is very strong and provides great security."
"The most valuable feature is ransomware protection."
"It works well without any maintenance. So far, it has worked pretty well regardless of the traffic."
"The solution is easy to handle and configure."
"What I like about the solution is the ease of use."
"The management suite is easy and the agent is easy to develop."
"The stability, overall, is excellent. I haven't had a problem in the last two years."
"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 solution can scale well."
"This is a capable appliance and the standard features work well for us."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from web filtering, malware protection, and antivirus."
"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."
"They could definitely improve on the support, especially in other countries."
"In Sophos UTM there is always a problem with the routing tables. If you want to see the routing table, you have to use the UI. You can't do it via a web browser. The routing table is better in Fortinet."
"The reporting could improve by providing information on where, or from which device attacks are coming from. We are already given the country where the attack is coming from but more information would be beneficial."
"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 UI can be cumbersome and, sometimes, features are not where you think they should be."
"This product could use some improvement with web filtering. It takes a lot of time and effort to set up and maintain."
"Sophos UTM could be simplified, and they can improve on the many other features, like SD-WAN and load balancing. Sophos UTM is missing a few features that their competitors have. For example, if you have multiple branches you would like to connect, the load balancing features aren't available on multilink. If we create a VPM for multiple LAN links, we cannot load balance the traffic."
"Although manageable, the user interface is a little bit slow and could be improved."
"Sometimes it reboots when you least expect it, and that's the main issue."
"The product has some scalability and data management issues where improvements are required."
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Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is ranked 10th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 3 reviews. Sophos UTM is rated 8.4, while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is rated 6.0. 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 Zyxel Unified Security Gateway writes "Offers good anti-spam and web filtering features but needs to improve in the area of scalability". Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Fortinet FortiGate, Sophos XG, OPNsense and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG and WatchGuard Firebox. See our Sophos UTM vs. Zyxel Unified Security Gateway report.
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