We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate-VM 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 Intrusion Prevention System and the web filtering are both working well."
"Security, SD-WAN, and Streetscape are valuable features."
"The SD-WAN is the most valuable feature."
"We purchased Fortinet because of the pricing, its functionality, because it met our requirements, and the total cost of ownership over five years was quite reasonable. In the market, Fortinet is rated quite well."
"The reporting and monitoring are very good."
"Initial setup is straightforward. There weren't too many issues with setting it up. It takes one hour or so."
"The pricing is great and very reasonable."
"User-friendly and affordable security solution that's recommended for SMB customers. This solution has good technical support."
"The user interface, stability, and scalability are the most valuable features."
"All the security features that are built into the product are valuable."
"The solution is very easy to set up. It doesn't take a lot of time and offers a quick deployment, so you can start using it almost right away."
"Fortinet FortiGate-VM is purpose-built as a next-generation firewall, excelling in its performance of this specific function."
"The most valuable feature is the WAN optimization."
"The configuration, graphical interface and command line are easy to use."
"We like FortiGate-VM's IPS features and its ability to create multiple virtual firewalls."
"Primarily, the VPN solution is most valuable. It allows you to have more flexibility in terms of what is there on the end-user device, and what is not there. You can check and make sure that they're current. It has more flexibility than just a straight VPN solution. It works really well. It has the features that 99% of people need."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the endpoint protection feature."
"I would recommend UTM over XG because it's easier to manage."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is reporting, it is flexible. I can monitor the end user's devices, even when they are not on my network. It has good drill-down capabilities."
"Monitoring and reporting are areas that need improvement."
"It has made our organization more secure, because we are using a VPN. We are not accessing services directly. It allows us to segregate some of the traffic for individuals which may be more of a developer role rather than an operational role needing access to developer resources, but not necessarily production operational resources."
"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."
"We've found the technical support to be helpful."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having a frequent ask questions(FAQ) area for people to receive quick answers to popular questions. Additionally, it would be beneficial to have an SMS notification feature. For example, if you cannot access your email you could receive an SMS message."
"I need user-behavior analytics, to find threat scenarios from inside the organization, insider attacks. That would be very helpful for us. In addition, I would like next-generation features for small and medium businesses. These businesses require UTM, all in one product. Fortinet must include it."
"The pricing could be reduced or include the first year warranty."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution. However, my issue is the performance only. When I use all the profiles, this affects the performance. From the beginning, I should have had a better sizing of the box."
"The user interface could be improved."
"The security of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"The sniffing packets or packet captures, can be simplified and improved because it's a little confusing."
"Areas for improvement would be application control and web filtering."
"We have encountered certain issues with the bandwidth in respect of the security layer."
"We encountered scalability issues in IPSec Module. The tunnels freeze sometimes."
"Deployment can be difficult and they could dispense with reliance on FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer."
"The users must buy FortiSIEM to get advanced analytics."
"The block, the clarity, the quarantine command, is not very user-friendly. You would have to do everything through the command line and I would have preferred if it wasn't a CLI."
"The price model is not transparent by any means and should be made more clear. What's included in the packages is often not very obvious."
"In the next releases, it would be nice to see central cloud management."
"The management suite is easy and the agent is easy to develop."
"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."
"We had some problems with the configuration. They had provided a CloudFormation template, and we had to go several rounds to make it work."
"The logs are not clear, which means that you need an additional piece of software in order to read them clearly."
"The memory and processing were problematic. The interface could be better."
"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."
"Doesn't provide antivirus for individual computers."
"The product could be simplified and made more self-explanatory."
Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 113 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate-VM is rated 8.4, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate-VM writes "An easy-to-manage and configure tool that provides ample documentation to help with the setup phase". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Fortinet FortiOS, OPNsense and Sophos XG, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Fortinet FortiGate-VM vs. Sophos UTM report.
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