We performed a comparison between Sangfor NGAF 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 pricing is excellent. It's much less expensive than Cisco."
"I am "headache free" that I don't have to categorize all the websites and that security has been pre categorized by the people, and that the services are getting updated. At least one part of my problem is over."
"Some of the key features of the solution is that it has good reporting, you can receive many details from the connection, for example, clients and website information."
"I appreciate FortiGate's flexibility, which allows for centralized management through FortiManager."
"We use the FortiGate Sandbox to detect zero-day vulnerabilities, such as anomalies or malware, that are unknown and have not yet been discovered."
"In terms of security, we have not experienced any security flaws or loopholes, and it has proven to be quite stable."
"It's very good and very stable for businesses. It works very well."
"All of the features of Fortinet FortiGate are useful and the security protection is good."
"While the features are not dissimilar to other brands, configuration is much more simple, which works out great for Indonesian people."
"Sangfor NGAF's standout feature is its powerful application control, enabling precise restrictions on mobile user access to approved applications."
"Particularly good in the DPI where we can inspect inbound and outbound traffic."
"It seems to be a durable, stable product."
"The stability of Sangfor NGAF is good."
"SSL VPN is the best feature."
"Sangfor NGAF works accordingly with our customers. The solution has good performance, easy to use, and integrates well with the endpoints."
"We can utilize our own network rather than paying for a private one."
"Technical support is very responsive."
"The UTM features are reasonably strong and the patterns are updated on a regular basis"
"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."
"Sophos UTM's best feature is synchronized security."
"Monitoring and reporting are areas that need improvement."
"It is easy to manage."
"It gives us the ability to manage our firewalls from the cloud and deploy a unified configuration onto them. Other competitors like Meraki have that ability, but they fail to optimize it in the way that Sophos has."
"It allows our developers to be able to securely log into servers to deploy and manage software."
"Fortinet needs to overhaul its documentation."
"Currently, without the additional reporting module, we only have access to basic reporting."
"The central management for the FortiGate Fortinet Firewall needs improvement. They have the manager to do the essential management for both SD-WAN and for the security policy. They should also improve the SD-WAN function."
"The solution can have more features in a single box that can be multi-applied to integrate everything."
"Fortinet FortiGate can be integrated with different platforms. They have integrations in place, but I can't say they're 100%."
"Tunnel flapping was one of the major things I had seen wherein your internet link remains but your VPN tunnel is down. However, since I got a fix from the TAC team, I have not noticed it, but the customer complained a few times that they couldn't access the internet because of this problem."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"The solution's framework needs to be frequently updated in order to have a stable solution."
"There is room for improvement in dependency on certain infrastructure, like the DNS dependency on the current DNS server that the company has. It should be standalone. It should not depend on any other DNS server."
"It does not offer any recommendations on how to mitigate or control attacks."
"The interface and user experience are horrible."
"Sangfor could improve by providing better real-time reporting, as the current reports don't offer the level of detail we need, especially for runtime insights."
"Sangfor need greater exposer in the market because the market is mainly saturated by Fortinet. The user experience of Fortinet is quite different compared to NGAF. If we want to switch our users from Fortinet to NGAF, we have to convince them that the user experience will be much easier once once they start to use it."
"Lacks consistency in terms of filtering certain websites and applications."
"The support offered by the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required. The knowledge levels and response time of the support team need improvement."
"Occasional issues with breaches which are dealt with expediently."
"The solution needs better integration with captive portals and XGs."
"We didn’t find any issues but I know there have been some in the last few years."
"Needs to improve the certificate management (ex. Let's Encrypt support)."
"Sophos UTM could improve the way the configuration has to be done. I have to do the configuration through the command line interface but if it could be done through the graphical user interface it would be much better."
"I think that additional metrics features are needed to be able to monitor other areas or to monitor as much as you can, at a fine-grain resolution."
"When we call support, we get put on hold for a long time."
"There can be a delay when it comes to reaching out to technical support."
"It would be nice if it had basic features, such as DLP (Data Loss Prevention)."
Sangfor NGAF is ranked 20th in Firewalls with 31 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Sangfor NGAF is rated 8.0, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Sangfor NGAF writes "Affordable, easy to configure firewall with fast, responsive support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Sangfor NGAF is most compared with Sophos XG, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Netgate pfSense, Check Point NGFW and SonicWall NSa, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Sangfor NGAF vs. Sophos UTM report.
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