We performed a comparison between Azure 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."The web tutor and automatic rules by schedule are good features."
"We are using the FortiGate 100D series. VPN, firewall, anti-malware, OTM, and intrusion prevention are useful features."
"One of the valuable features is a standardized OS."
"Reliability is the best feature. We faced some issues when we were setting it up, but the service, portal, and administration are good."
"It's very fast and easy to configure."
"The threat prevention is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"The user interface is relatively easy. The devices are easy to deploy and figure out when you have experience with other security appliances."
"The usage in general is pretty good."
"It's auto-scalable, which is a great feature."
"Azure's cost-effectiveness is its major advantage."
"The most valuable feature is the integration into the overall cloud platform."
"The Layer four features are okay and meet my business needs."
"In terms of the reporting, it's beautiful. It integrates with Azure monitoring and with Azure policies. That piece is a big help. You can set governing policies and you can use the application firewall, as well as the Azure Firewall, to enforce those policies."
"It provided ease of maintenance. If a new firewall was needed, we only had to run the pipelines for this. So, the maintenance was very easy."
"The firewall policy control, URL content control, and antivirus are all the most valuable aspects. Threat prevention is as well quite good."
"I like its order management feature. It doesn't have the kind of threat intelligence that Palo Alto has, but the order management makes it much simpler to know the difference."
"The isolation of infected machines is a big feature. Also, the ability to detect external sources that change files on a file server is really big."
"Configuration troubleshooting is eased by the use of the color-coded, live firewall log."
"UTM 9 brings along IPSec as well as iPhone and iPad support. This seems small but it’s useful."
"The management suite is easy and the agent is easy to develop."
"The features that I've known to be most valuable are both the web security features as well as the web firewall capabilities. As a partner of Sophos firewall, we have some clients and they are using Sophos firewall UTM and we are using it as well."
"With over 150 firewalls in our portal, management and monitoring have never been easier."
"The solution is scalable."
"The product is extremely intuitive."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"The captive portal could be improved."
"FortiOS is not simple."
"The improvement is related to logs. Instead of the CLI, we should be able to have more insights into the logs of the firewall in the GUI."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve if it had a cloud-managed solution."
"They should improve the interface to make it more user-friendly."
"The license renewal process, annual renewal price, and the web application firewall features should be improved."
"They've become quite expensive."
"Azure has new versions including a premium firewall. But I would like to see them not put the premium features on Azure Firewall Premium alone because it is quite expensive."
"This solution is not mature when it comes to handling perimeter traffic like internet browsing."
"An Azure firewall is not a real firewall."
"Azure should be able to work better as a balancer also, instead of just being a firewall. It should have a wider mandate."
"It would be much easier if the on-premises, firewall rules, had some kind of export-import possibility in place, which is not the case right now."
"The interface could be improved, it's not very user friendly."
"You have to have a defined IP range within your network to associate it with your network. The problem is you have to plan ahead of time if you expect to use the firewall in the future so that you don't have to reconfigure your subnets or that specific IP range. Other than that, I don't any issues. I use it for basic configuration for a single application, so I really don't try to leverage it for multiple applications where I might find some complexity or challenges."
"It has fewer features than you can get from other firewalls, like anti-spam and anti-phishing. Those kinds of things are not included. It only includes IDS and IDB."
"The virus updates will always depend on new viruses that are discovered. Maybe they can send a notification or a reminder for update time."
"We need a better VPN client for the customers."
"The management suite is easy and the agent is easy to develop."
"We would like to have unique viewable IDs for rules and in the packet filter logfile, for easier debugging of old log files."
"Sophos UTM sometimes falls short in high-availability environments. They used to launch firmware that didn't work very well in a high-availability environment."
"This product could use some improvement with web filtering. It takes a lot of time and effort to set up and maintain."
"In short, the UI and UX are the areas of improvement in Sophos UTM and similar solutions compared to Palo Alto."
"The pricing is an issue."
Azure Firewall is ranked 21st in Firewalls with 33 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Azure Firewall writes "Easy to use and configure but could be more robust". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Azure Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Check Point NGFW, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Azure Firewall vs. Sophos UTM report.
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