We performed a comparison between Sophos UTM and Stormshield Network Security 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."The most valuable feature is that it is easy to administer."
"The scalability is good."
"An easy solution to learn because the graphics are very intuitive."
"Brings greater visibility into the network traffic coming inside and passing away from the company."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The most valuable feature is the price. I've been requesting prices all over these years between different solutions like Fortinet, Palo Alto, and Check Point and Sophos has been the cheapest and the best of all of them that I have tried. I have been working with Fortinet, it's a fact that the price is surprisingly better."
"The stability of Sophos UTM is very good. The solution has been stable since Sophos took over Cyberoam which was the original company providing this solution."
"It helps us with protection, with concurrent use of the VPN."
"The scalability of the solution is good."
"Ease of use is the best feature of the product."
"This solution is quick and easy to configure."
"A very robust product."
"I like that it works fine. Stormshield is a very good solution."
"It's an easy, straightforward management platform to use."
"Easily manageable in a variety of environments."
"The solution has improved my organization because I can see what traffic is happening and I can use it to block and prevent attacks."
"I didn't like it much. It suits only small businesses. It isn't scalable and reliable. There is a very critical issue with the power supply."
"The application control is really bad. It needs a lot of enhancements. The traffic shaping and bandwidth control, and application control need a lot of work."
"There's an issue that when we deploy UTM on fiber, it automatically upgrades to the latest version without giving an option to stay on the current one."
"Needs to improve the certificate management (ex. Let's Encrypt support)."
"Last year, Sophos had some major internal management changes that negatively impacted their support."
"Sophos should improve its ability to check something like bandwidth consumption for users or something more real-time."
"The logs are not clear, which means that you need an additional piece of software in order to read them clearly."
"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."
"The SD card could be more secure."
"This solution has a big problem with web filtering and it needs to be improved."
"This is not a next-generation firewall."
"Not all the fields are activated yet and we were informed that it will take at least one month."
"A more user-friendly interface would be helpful."
"With Stormshield, there are difficulties joining things, and it can be complex depending on the architecture."
"Stormshield Network Security is quite expensive."
"The product must improve its pricing."
Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews while Stormshield Network Security is ranked 9th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 16 reviews. Sophos UTM is rated 8.4, while Stormshield Network Security is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Stormshield Network Security writes "Handles monitoring, collection, analysis, and reporting of data in our HQ and branches". Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Fortinet FortiGate, Sophos XG, OPNsense and Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, whereas Stormshield Network Security is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG and Check Point NGFW. See our Sophos UTM vs. Stormshield Network Security report.
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