We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall and Sophos Cyberoam UTM 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."FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"We use the FortiGate Sandbox to detect zero-day vulnerabilities, such as anomalies or malware, that are unknown and have not yet been discovered."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"All of the features of Fortinet FortiGate are useful and the security protection is good."
"It's a firewall that secures our internal network. I have been using it since 2013, and I find that most of the features are advanced, and very user friendly."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"The product is easy to use and is stable. The SV1 functionality is a benefit."
"The reporting and monitoring are very good."
"Cisco ASA NGFW significantly improves our bank. It protects any high-value products that we use from hackers, viruses, malware, and script-bots. It gives us metrics on network traffic as well as what kind of attacks we are getting from the outside."
"Stability is perfect. I haven't had any problems."
"The most valuables feature of this product are given by the comprehensive VPN solutions it offers and its tools for troubleshooting and debugging."
"The features I've found most valuable are the packet captures and packet traces because they help me debug connections. I like the logs because they help me see what's going on."
"The dashboard is the most important thing. It provides good visibility and makes management easy. Firepower also provides us with good application visibility and control."
"You can also put everything into a nice, neat, little package, as far as configuration goes. I was formerly a command-line guy with the ASA, and I was a little nervous about dealing with a GUI interface versus a command line, but after I did my first deployment, I got a lot more comfortable with doing it GUI based."
"Feature-wise, we mostly use IPS because it is a security requirement to protect against attacks from outside and inside. This is where IPS helps us out a bunch."
"The command line is the same as it is on the Cisco iOS router."
"I find Sophos Cyberoam UTM very good. I like the feature of being able to block off Mac IDs that host users. For example, you have a Mac or Windows laptop and you created a hotspot. Other devices like mobiles and tablets e.g. iPads connected to that hotspot. We can block those devices that connected to the hotspot we created, only through Sophos. It's a good feature we didn't find in other UTMs."
"SD-WAN and IPSec features are valuable to me."
"The tool's robust features allow for the customization of policies, objects, and firewall settings."
"The product is worth the investment."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"You can geofence yourself if there is an incoming attack or a continuous ping from a company outside your country."
"We consider the user level and control features of Sophos Cyberoam UTM to be the best."
"The product is easy to maintain."
"There could be more integration between the logging and analytical platforms to make it more seamless and integrated."
"I think the only issue that needs improvement is the interface."
"The integration with third-party tools may be something that they should work on."
"Application management can be improved."
"The performance could be a bit better. Right now, I find it to be lacking. Having good performance is very important for our work."
"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."
"The logging details need to be improved."
"Its reporting and pricing need improvement."
"HTTPs inspection and higher throughput/spec would be good."
"The stability could be better because we have a lot of issues with the stability of Cisco Firepower."
"There may have been one or two incidences of malicious threats."
"I needed to be well-versed with all the command lines for Cisco ASA in order to fully utilize it. I missed this info and wasted some operational costs."
"When we're looking at full-stack visibility, it can be difficult to get the right information out of Firepower."
"FMC could be improved because management with FMC is quite difficult compared to using Firepower web-based management."
"The application detection feature of this solution could be improved as well as its integration with other solutions."
"The product crashes. We have a cluster of firewalls and we regularly get failovers."
"Needs a mail alert/notification when the device loses any of its connections, during ISP redundancy implementation."
"Its scalability is not that great."
"The solution is at its end of life and some of the appliances are finishing."
"When it comes to web filtering and application filtering, it does not contain enough signatures to determine all of the sites that need to be blocked."
"It should have a better VPN client. We decided to find something different than Cyberoam because of the VPN client software. It would be nice to have a user interface not only in English but also in different languages."
"I would like to see improvements in the development of reports. The process needs to be made simple."
"I had an issue when I was trying to stop a user from using too much bandwidth while I was using Azure, I was not able to stop them."
"I would like to see real-time alerts on traffic insights."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 9th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall writes "Highlights and helps us catch Zero-day vulnerabilities traveling across our network". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Cyberoam UTM writes "Stable and has a straightforward setup; reporting is fast and easy". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos UTM, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Sophos XG and OPNsense. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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