We performed a comparison between GajShield Next Generation Firewall and Sophos 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."Our security improved from being able to put in rules and close off unwanted traffic."
"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 several features that this product has, such as antivirus and internet navigation inspection. It is also simple to use."
"FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"All of the features of Fortinet FortiGate are useful and the security protection is good."
"Good performance, stability, and virtual domain ability."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is security. They are known for efficiency and are on the top of Gartner Quadrant reviews. Fortinet FortiGate has an easy-to-use platform with a good graphical interface. The configuration is simple and the solution provides an overall good layer of security."
"The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"GajShield Next Generation Firewall's best feature is the network DLP."
"Gajshiled's enterprise cloud and DLP-level features give it an advantage over other products."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature of the GajShield Next Generation Firewall is the user-friendly settings, dashboards, and anti-threat protection. Additionally, the solution upgrades frequently which is good because we receive new features."
"It is an easily scalable solution...The initial setup was very easy."
"GajShield has improved our mobile device-based connectivity."
"The solution's outcome is very high, and we often use it in a very high-traffic environment."
"It allows our developers to be able to securely log into servers to deploy and manage software."
"The most valuable features of Sophos UTM are the ease of use, it is very user-friendly. You can understand what they implement in the new firmware, and it's easy to manage the firewalls."
"Installing Sophos UTM is straightforward. The deployment itself doesn't take long, but you have to spend some time planning and waiting for the hardware to be delivered."
"It is easy to manage."
"The scalability is good."
"Sophos UTM has a good user interface and granular security controls."
"What I like about Sophos UTM is that it improves my company's security. The solution is easy to set up, which I like, and it's very stable."
"The stability, overall, is excellent. I haven't had a problem in the last two years."
"The inability to scale the FortiAnalyzer to match our growth necessitates the purchase of new hardware."
"The support costs and licensing are sometimes so expensive."
"The solution lacks sufficient filtering."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"Technical support for this solution can be improved."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"It is very expensive, and their support is not very good. I hope that their technical support will be better in the future."
"Sometimes, we have to use SD-WAN support for the solution, which can be improved by adapting some features that will help our approach to network services."
"We raised a support ticket, and the project didn't get a proper response. There was a skill issue in TAC support."
"We face issues with some configuration parts that we don't understand in the solution, and sometimes we face issues with the VPN connection."
"GajShield Next Generation Firewall would be improved with the addition of a load-balancing feature."
"GajShield Next Generation Firewall could improve the flow of the settings. If somebody's using a Cisco firewall or any other brand and they want to use GajShield Next Generation Firewall the platform's UI is a bit different. If it was more similar to the others it would be better."
"Gajshield can improve SD-WAN compatibility at an enterprise cloud level."
"The firewall configuration and administration screens could use some improvement."
"The reporting could be a lot better."
"It's stable, but the reaction time of the GUI is terrible."
"We'd like to see them offer their services on mobile devices like tablets. I'm not sure if that's an option or not."
"It is a little too CPU resource intensive, so we would like to see improvements there."
"Needs to improve the certificate management (ex. Let's Encrypt support)."
"There is still room for improvement in wireless protection. I don't mean their WiFi device is bad, but there are still things to improve on, such as WiFi roaming."
"We would like to have unique viewable IDs for rules and in the packet filter logfile, for easier debugging of old log files."
"Doesn't provide antivirus for individual computers."
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GajShield Next Generation Firewall is ranked 30th in Firewalls with 7 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. GajShield Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.8, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of GajShield Next Generation Firewall writes "User-friendly settings, frequent updates, and responsive support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". GajShield Next Generation Firewall is most compared with Sophos XG, WiJungle and Netgate pfSense, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our GajShield Next Generation Firewall vs. Sophos UTM report.
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