We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW and Sophos 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."Fortinet FortiGate's reliability is valuable."
"It can expand easily."
"The user interface is relatively easy. The devices are easy to deploy and figure out when you have experience with other security appliances."
"The most important features with FortiGate are the web filter and application controls. We can control our internet usage and use the web filter for application purposes."
"Offers good security and filtering."
"Its administrative panel is very intuitive and simple. It is simpler than the other solutions that we had. As an administrator, we are always looking for the easiest solution to manage network policies. We are able to filter everything on our network and also use the VPN feature, which is important these days when people are working remotely during COVID."
"The most valuable feature of FortiGate is FortiView which provides proactive monitoring."
"It does a lot for you for intrusion protection and as an antivirus. The threat management bundle is worth the money. You don't need another company to monitor your web traffic for you. You can do everything yourself on the firewall. You restrict your own black list for people on the firewall. You don't need to pay some other company for another product to do that for you. The firewall can do that for you. So, it's an easy-to-use product for people to be independent. They don't need to rely on other vendors to do what the firewall can do. They can do everything."
"It is always on the top of the list of best firewall solutions."
"The packet inspections have been a strong point. Our identity collectors have also been helpful. In many ways, Check Point has been a step up from our SonicWalls that we had in-house before that. There's a lot of additional flexibility that we didn't have before."
"The feature I like the most is their central management, the Smart controller which you can use to manage all the firewalls from one location... Being able to access almost everything in one location — manage all your gateways and get all your logs — for me, is the best feature to work with."
"The different hardware models focus on a wide spectrum of the market, so any company can choose a model that makes sense for them from the range."
"As a system administrator my favourite part of Check Point is the smart view tracker. This alone is a must-have tool for tracking all traffic traversing the Check Point appliance."
"On the firewall side, the security efficacy is good."
"The architecture of the solution is extraordinary"
"The solution is easy to administer thanks to its dashboards. The monitoring is really useful."
"The initial setup was easy."
"The most valuable feature is ransomware protection."
"The solution is scalable."
"The cost of the solution is very reasonable."
"Efficient and effective - it's easy to separate rules."
"It has made our organization more secure, because we are using a VPN. We are not accessing services directly. It allows us to segregate some of the traffic for individuals which may be more of a developer role rather than an operational role needing access to developer resources, but not necessarily production operational resources."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It does not take much effort or thinking to understand how it works."
"The security of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"Scalability is one of the disadvantages. When it comes to scalability, you have to actually change the box. If you want to upgrade it, you need to actually change the existing box and probably you take the system off to other sites."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution. However, my issue is the performance only. When I use all the profiles, this affects the performance. From the beginning, I should have had a better sizing of the box."
"It claims it does DLP, but the degree and level of controls are very basic."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"There can be more security in hybrid implementations. When a customer has a hybrid environment where some parts are in the cloud, we need a consistent security solution for such scenarios."
"Check Point should include additional management choices; for example, Check Point does not offer full management support via browser."
"Sometimes debugging is a hassle."
"I have had some issues in the past with the desktop client being slow to come up for logging in, and then slow to respond to screen changes, however, overall, it really hasn't been too bad."
"There is room for improvement in application-based filtering, as with other firewalls available in the market today."
"The virtual infrastructure of the central management requires a huge amount of resources to work properly and manage all the logs without problems."
"The current model is predominantly hardware appliance-based, which can incur substantial costs"
"The price is middling. It's much more expensive than Fortinet, although not so expensive when compared with Palo Alto."
"A lot of things need to be improved in Check Point NGFW. One, their support team isn't very efficient and useful."
"The only time we face a problem or issues is when we place a ticket. We have found that response is very slow."
"The initial setup was straightforward. The full deployment takes approximately two days which could be simplified to reduce the time. The major part of the process is the configuration and the policy setup."
"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 technical support team’s response time could be improved."
"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 virus updates will always depend on new viruses that are discovered. Maybe they can send a notification or a reminder for update time."
"It needs a better user interface. The one they have is not so good."
"This product could use some improvement with web filtering. It takes a lot of time and effort to set up and maintain."
Check Point NGFW doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 276 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Check Point NGFW writes "Good antivirus protection and URL filtering with very good user identification capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Azure Firewall, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Check Point NGFW vs. Sophos UTM report.
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