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."Customers want to load balance more than eight lines or six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this."
"The response is very quick and they can visually resolve our problems in a short period."
"The reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, application control, IPS control, and FortiSandbox."
"This solution has solid UTM features combined with a nice GUI."
"Customers are more inclined towards FortiGate because of application control, web filtering, and anti-spam features. The support from the FortiGate team is good, and price-wise, it is affordable."
"Overall, the pricing of the solution is very good. The product offers good value."
"This product is definitely scalable."
"Technical support is very good."
"We can utilize our own network rather than paying for a private one."
"Sangfor NGAF works accordingly with our customers. The solution has good performance, easy to use, and integrates well with the endpoints."
"Sangfor has the best capabilities for securing connections, securing web browsers, securing servers, and general threat protection."
"Particularly good in the DPI where we can inspect inbound and outbound traffic."
"In four steps one can configure the entire firewall."
"In our hospital, Sangfor NGAF works well for us in terms of ensuring confidentiality and availability, which are crucial in the healthcare industry."
"The built-in features function as intended, providing exceptional value."
"The packet filtering's great. You get out what you put into it. It works great as long as you know your security and configure everything adequately. If you just pop one in and it's not configured, then it's basically wide open. It kind of depends on the admin skill, but it's an excellent product."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"The three most important features for us are web protection, web server protection, and network protection."
"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."
"It makes it a lot easier for us to maintain things. Prior to it, things were more difficult. This means less time on us. We can focus on other things. The recovery is more in man-hours for us than anything else."
"So far, the solution has been problem-free."
"The management suite is easy and the agent is easy to develop."
"Good basic firewall functions with advanced firewall scanning."
"Its customer service could be better."
"One of the features that I would like to have is to do with endpoint production, it should be integrated. For example, the firewall gets notified of any kind of forensic event that needs to be done, such as if there is a ransomware attack and how it originated, all those records have to be available from the firewall, which is not."
"A lack of integration between our data centers."
"They need to improve their technical support."
"WAN load-balancing could be a lot better at detecting when a link is poor or inconsistent, and not just flat out dead."
"There are some cloud-based features that could be much more flexible than they currently are."
"The user interface could be improved to make it less confusing and easier to set up."
"The solution needs to improve its integration with cybersecurity."
"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."
"Occasional issues with breaches which are dealt with expediently."
"Our experience with its customer support was quite challenging."
"An area of improvement for Sangfor NGAF could be in the field of reporting and logging."
"An area for improvement would be the number of ports defined on the box. In the next release, I would like them to develop their provisioning stage of enrolling end devices."
"They need to improve their research team and they need to study their data to analyze it and build the product."
"The web interface needs to be improved, making it more user-friendly."
"Sangfor NGAF could improve by refining its application control policies, especially in addressing challenges with certain types of applications."
"They could use more SSL VPN support."
"The scalability of the product is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Flexibility in pricing could be improved. It's more rigid in its pricing compared to its competitor: Kaspersky."
"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."
"Sophos should improve its ability to check something like bandwidth consumption for users or something more real-time."
"The technical support only communicates via email. I would prefer to communicate directly with someone."
"Last year, Sophos had some major internal management changes that negatively impacted their 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 Cisco Secure Firewall, 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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