We performed a comparison between Sophos UTM and Sophos XGS 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."Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"Customers want to load balance more than eight lines or six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this."
"Valuable features include the Web Application Firewall, and it even has DLP (data leak prevention)."
"I'm pretty happy with its reliability. It is also very scalable."
"The scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate."
"The solution is very, very easy to use."
"Anti-Spam web content filterinG."
"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 most valuable feature is ransomware protection."
"They are all good, but most-used are Network Protection and Web Filtering."
"Stability-wise, I rate this solution a ten out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate this solution a ten out of ten."
"Good basic firewall functions with advanced firewall scanning."
"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."
"The initial configuration is straightforward thanks to the web GUI. In 30 minutes, you can have a running firewall with UTM protection enabled."
"Sophos integrates seamlessly, and we don't even feel it is running in the background."
"All the features are valuable, in my opinion, but for us the most important features are the network security, application control, and web server protection. Sophos Sandstorm is another good feature off the top of my head."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The policies are the greatest feature. They allow us to configure granular control over our network traffic."
"It's easy to use and user-friendly."
"In this solution, the most valuable feature is that it's a security device. Maintaining security is very valuable for us. The other feature that we did not find in other products is that it works well with thin client environments."
"The initial setup is very user-friendly because they have graphical user interface options and command line interface options. I would give the initial setup a rating of five out of five."
"The solution offers more antimalware and antivirus feeds than others."
"It's easy to use, and the service is good. If anything goes wrong, their support system is very reliable."
"Technical support is good but the response time could be faster."
"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."
"I'm not sure if it's something that they already have or are developing something, however, we need some dedicated features for container security."
"The web-cache feature which was previously on the FortiGate device, but was deleted with the recent upgrade should be returned. It was a very valuable feature for us."
"The firmware needs improvement because there are bugs when a new release comes through. Sometimes, the configuration changes, and it's a bit harder to see where the fail is. The first time that you have the firmware, it tends to have some issues, and it's better to wait a bit to update the equipment."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"It needs more available central management."
"Due to its higher cost, Fortinet FortiGate can lead to increased operational expenses."
"I would like to see the SD-WAN feature improved."
"When we call support, we get put on hold for a long time."
"The management suite is easy and the agent is easy to develop."
"The reporting system needs to allow for customizations because many reports do not include details that we expect."
"Sophos should be more user-friendly, have more dashboards, and an easier implementation."
"The interface configuration could be improved."
"The pricing is an issue."
"We need to speed up the support."
"In version 18 of Sophos XGS, the log details are not very good. However, in version 19 they are more detailed. The Fortinet FortiGate has better detail overall compared to Sophos XGS. They provide updates to the solution frequently, but they do not fix the problems that exist."
"The application is a little slow; it takes five to ten seconds to respond to every click when configuring. If we need to do significant configuration, it can take a lot of time. This might be because we have a low-end machine, and it could be faster with a high-end one."
"Support could be improved."
"Sometimes, we haven't received proper support. They couldn't find the solutions that we required. One thing that we need is an NTP server facility. The Sophos XGS device does not have this capacity or this feature."
"We'd like an interface that can monitor everything."
"I recommend Sophos increase the user capacity of the firewall by 1.5 times. For example, say the firewall can accommodate 1,000 users now, then it should handle a load of 1,500 users."
"Sophos XGS needs improvement with the threshold values. Other solutions have the capacity to handle more users."
"It would be good if we could do dual customization."
Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews while Sophos XGS is ranked 17th in Firewalls with 60 reviews. Sophos UTM is rated 8.4, while Sophos XGS 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 Sophos XGS writes "Easy to use, simple to learn, and offers great reporting". Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Meraki MX, whereas Sophos XGS is most compared with Sophos XG, OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, WatchGuard Firebox and Check Point NGFW. See our Sophos UTM vs. Sophos XGS report.
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