We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW 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."Fortinet FortiGate is user-friendly and affordable."
"It has very easy management and an amazing ETM configuration."
"The CLI and GUI do a good job of putting a lot at your fingertips."
"I appreciate FortiGate's flexibility, which allows for centralized management through FortiManager."
"The signature database and zero-day detection are Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features."
"Their interface is very easy to use, it is without bugs."
"The solution is scalable."
"The solution has very good threat and content filtering switches."
"Configuration and deploying are easy."
"If there is a critical issue observed, the Check Point support team can create a custom package that we can deploy on the gateway to mitigate critical issues/bug fixes."
"It is user-friendly and straightforward to manage, which simplifies our overall network security management."
"Log storage gives us insights when required."
"In a single bundle we have the all solutions we need - like application/URL filtering, and threat emulation/extraction."
"There is a lot of legacy traffic from other vendors that has been migrated to Check Point which has resulted in a lot of stability in our environment."
"The spoofing prevention feature is the most valuable feature."
"Check Point helps a lot with automatization which definitely reduces the effort to maintain the environment."
"It's easy to use and user-friendly."
"The threat management system and VPN are most valuable."
"Sophos XGS's most valuable feature is content filtering."
"The product was easy for us to install."
"In this solution, the most valuable feature is that it's a security device. Maintaining security is very valuable for us. The other feature that we did not find in other products is that it works well with thin client environments."
"Easy to set up firewall product, that's also easy to manage and scale."
"Sophos XGS has contributed to the reduction of the overall security costs of our company's customers."
"Sophos XGS is profound as a firewall and security product."
"Reporting is limited to providing an external appliance for improving the reporting capabilities of the FortiAnalyzer. It does not offer a central management and is also sold separably as an appliance."
"The visibility of the network can be better. The GUI can be improved for better visibility of the network flow. Other solutions have better GUI in terms of network visibility."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"There are some cloud-based features that could be much more flexible than they currently are."
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"The renewal price and the availability could be improved."
"I think there could be more QoS features"
"Needs to upgrade the IPSec VPN port"
"Debugging could be improved when compared to the competition."
"The only thing which I think should be improved is that training should be increased. In my position I also interview potential employees and I haven't found many people in the market, nowadays, who are familiar with the Check Point firewall. They are more familiar with Palo Alto and Cisco ASA and they are more comfortable with them."
"The routing rules and some more network settings should be listed on the Check Point Smart Console instead of GAIA Web GUI."
"Pricing for the gateways is too high as compared to the other vendors."
"The only downside to Check Point, is, due to the vast expanse of configurable options, it does become easily overwhelming."
"Heavy load causes a higher CPU to peek which causes us to need to reboot the device. Malicious activity database corrupts the directory or path and restoring it takes a lot of time."
"I would like less CPU-intensive features to be introduced to replace the existing heavy-duty processes."
"Its pricing could be better."
"They need intelligent reporting, not just your simple, standard reports."
"Having previously worked with the Astaro Security Gateway platform (now called Sophos UTM), I can attest that the configuration and dashboard for this older platform was easier to manage than that of both Sophos XG and XGS. If it were up to me, I would prefer to go back to the older SG dashboard."
"Sophos XGS could improve by having better integration with Active Directory."
"The SD-WAN feature isn't very good. It's there, but it doesn't work properly."
"I would like to see them in third-party evaluation reports like Gartner, Magic Quadrant, or Forrester to make it easier for us to show our customers that Sophos is a leader in the market."
"The first time a person sets it up, they will need training."
"Level one technical support is not good at all and needs to be improved."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 279 reviews while Sophos XGS is ranked 17th in Firewalls with 62 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Sophos XGS is rated 7.8. 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 XGS writes "Easy to use, simple to learn, and offers great reporting". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and SonicWall NSa, whereas Sophos XGS is most compared with Sophos XG, OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, WatchGuard Firebox and Sophos UTM. See our Check Point NGFW vs. Sophos XGS report.
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