We performed a comparison between Netgate pfSense 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."The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good."
"FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"The threat prevention is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"The most valuable features are the policies, filtering, and configuration."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and the UI. It has always provided me with what I needed. I have no need for additional costs that other solutions have, such as Sophos."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"The SD-WAN is the most valuable feature."
"Whenever I need something, Fortinet improves and updates the software for me."
"Easy to deploy and easy to use."
"The solution has good customization abilities and plenty of features."
"The features I have found best are ease of use, GUI, and performance."
"The product’s documentation is good."
"pfSense helped us during COVID-19 because we used OpenVPN to connect from home."
"I am happy with the EPLS, the radius, and I am happy with the captive portal."
"My company mainly works in the health and educational domain, schools and universities. I prevent the improper use of content from schools and universities. I defend the medical records for the patients in our hospitals. That is the main use case for me for the firewall."
"Its reliability and cost-effectiveness stand out."
"The product has helped control bandwidth utilization, as well as enhanced connectivity and security to remote locations."
"The main features I have found best are the load balancer and ease of use."
"The solution is easy to integrate."
"It is a VPN that serves all your needs as an application firewall."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The user interface is well laid out and understandable."
"The product, itself, doesn't seem to have any bugs or glitches."
"The most valuable feature is the solution is easy to configure for users."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"The biggest "gotcha" is that if the client purchases what they call the UTM shared bundle, which has unified threat management on both, it's not as easy to manage if you have more than one firewall."
"In the balance between links feature normally you can just choose one option to balance. It would be better for the solution to have more than one option, preferably three."
"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."
"Compared to some other products, the DLP is not at par for the moment."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve if it had a cloud-managed solution."
"The support structure needs to be improved because every time we contact them, there is a delay in the response."
"To some degree, it's almost a question as to why some of this stuff isn't simpler. For example, for an AP deployment, while it's integrated, the number of steps that you have to go through in order to get the AP up, seems like a lot."
"Ultimately, we'd like something stronger, and something that can handle threats better in real-time."
"Other solutions provide more scope for growth. For instance, we can have only 10 to 20 employees on VPN, but other solutions can support more users. We also have more capabilities to increase the performance of the solution."
"The product must provide integration with other solutions."
"We are at the moment looking to use it as a proxy service so that we can limit what websites people go and view and that sort of thing. That's an area I've struggled with a little bit at the moment and it could be a bit easier to set up."
"The configuration of the solution is a bit difficult."
"As an open-source solution, there are so many loopholes happening within the product. By design, no one is taking ownership of it, and that is worrisome to me."
"Also, simplifying the rules for the GeoIP. Making it simpler to understand would be an improvement."
"I would like to see SD1 integration into the software. That would be fantastic."
"Sometimes, users are timed out intermittently."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could have a more advanced reporting function."
"Sometimes, during part of the configuration, if you don't have a lot of technical knowledge, then you may struggle a bit to configure it."
"The solution had a feature to import users from a CSV file. However, the latest version does not have that option."
"I would like to see a better content management pack and also the website searching should be better."
"I would say there's room for improvement in terms of the GUI. Because it is better than some of the other standard firewalls. They have the drag and drop features."
"It should have better VPN protection. Some of the VPN applications are not blocked by this firewall. Some VPNs are able to get through this firewall, which is why I am planning to replace this firewall with a good one in the near future."
"Smaller CR15 units don’t have a hard disc or built in IView software. These units could do with that feature."
Netgate pfSense is ranked 1st in Firewalls with 128 reviews while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews. Netgate pfSense is rated 8.6, while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Netgate pfSense writes "User-friendly, easy to manage the firewall, rule-wise and interface-wise". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Cyberoam UTM writes "Stable and has a straightforward setup; reporting is fast and easy". Netgate pfSense is most compared with OPNsense, Sophos XG, KerioControl, Sophos UTM and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos UTM, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Sophos XG and OPNsense. See our Netgate pfSense vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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