We performed a comparison between Sophos Cyberoam UTM and Sophos XG 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."Security solution with a straightforward and quick setup. It's a stable and scalable product."
"The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtering testing applications, web filtering, and the new VPN."
"The interface is very user-friendly and I like it very much."
"With FortiClient, you can easily connect when you are home, check out what you want to do, and connect to your network when you are not at work. You can switch on servers and you can check what is wrong."
"I'm pretty happy with its reliability. It is also very scalable."
"The threat prevention is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"Fortinet FortiGate is user-friendly and affordable."
"User-friendly and affordable security solution that's recommended for SMB customers. This solution has good technical support."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is the SD-WAN gateway."
"The product, itself, doesn't seem to have any bugs or glitches."
"Cyberoam UTM's most valuable feature is that it can be configured any way you like."
"The dashboard is very good-looking and offers maximum features. If a customer's website has a problem, we can guide them over the phone because they can easily find the specific option on the dashboard. That's why we suggest buying Sophos."
"The most valuable feature is the IPSec forwarding."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is a very strong product with good support."
"The tool's robust features allow for the customization of policies, objects, and firewall settings."
"The product is worth the investment."
"The product offers many great features."
"Some of the most valuable features are filtering and application control. The DDoS detection also shows traffic jamming and traffic shaping."
"It is very user friendly and easy to manage from the administrative point of view. It is good, reliable, and easy to implement."
"The interface is user-friendly and the product is easy to configure."
"The firewall provides network visibility and reporting capabilities, constantly improving over time. It can be integrated with the cloud console, allowing centralized management of multiple firewalls. integration with endpoint security products ensures seamless traffic flow and rule enforcement, even when endpoints are not directly connected to the firewall."
"The firewall feature of Sophos XG has been the most effective for threat prevention."
"The solution is very easy to use and straightforward."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"I would like to see improvements in the product's application rules."
"FortiLink is the interface on the firewall that allows you to extend switch management across all of your switches in the network. The problem with it is that you can't use multiple interfaces unless you set them up in a lag. Only then you can run them. So, it forces you to use a core type of switch to propagate that management out to the rest of the switches, and then it is running the case at 200. It leaves you with 18 ports on the firewall because it is also a layer-three router that could also be used as a switch, but as soon as you do that, you can't really use them. They could do a little bit more clean up in the way the stacking interface works. Some use cases and the documentation on the FortiLink checking interface are a little outdated. I can find stuff on version 5 or more, but it is hard to find information on some of the newer firmware. The biggest thing I would like to see is some improvement in the switch management feature. I would like to be able to relegate some of the ports, which are on the firewall itself, to act as a switch to take advantage of those ports. Some of these firewalls have clarity ports on them. If I can use those, it would mean that I need to buy two less switches, which saves time. I get why they don't, but I would still like to see it because it would save a little bit of space in the server rack."
"Monitoring and reporting could be better."
"The solution could have licensing fees reduced in the future."
"It would be good if they had fewer updates."
"They need to improve their technical support."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a firewall solution and once it's deployed, you can rest assured that your system is secure."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"We have had some issues with technical support, which is an area that needs improvement."
"On-box sandstorm should be available. As of now, it is from their cloud."
"I don't know whether this will be included in an upgrade, but I would like to get the user utility, like seeing where the users are using more of the data."
"The configuration requires an expert to be set up, so it could be made simpler."
"There needs to be more documentation that users can access to help them understand the solution or troubleshoot as necessary."
"Once in a while, an unwanted email will slip in. You have to set your parameters to avoid that happening, but once in a while, an email has slipped past firewall. Once you update the firmware, you notice that it doesn't happen. If an email slips in, I get a little bit worried. I do get the report, but you just don't want that situation happening in the first place."
"Technical support could be faster."
"SD-WAN should be included in the tool."
"There needs to be a way that we can distinguish between educational institutions on Youtube and other Youtube videos. You can do this on Fortinet. Basically, they can block all other Youtube videos besides those that are from educational institutions. With Sophos, you either allow for all Youtube videos or none at all. They need to allow for more specification on different websites."
"The solution could offer a bit more integration with other systems, with other platforms - just to be able to extend the capability and to interface with other kinds of platforms or systems that I can find on the market as it gives the possibility to improve the level of integration."
"The program is rather expensive."
"Having a web portal where you could make requests for the categorization of non-categorized items, would be beneficial."
"The pricing has gotten much higher."
"The time taken by Sophos XG's support team to respond to and resolve an issue is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The support from the vendor needs to be improved."
"There should be web caching to improve bandwidth utilization. It should have a very good caching feature. That's because we are in a very poor continent, and the connectivity cost is very high. We have low bandwidth, and the intensive usage of bandwidth is not easy here in Africa. If they improve services for web caching, it would be better."
Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews while Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews. Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0, while Sophos XG is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Sophos Cyberoam UTM writes "Stable and has a straightforward setup; reporting is fast and easy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos XG writes "Easy to use and deploy with an improved pricing structure in place". Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Sophos UTM and Untangle NG Firewall, whereas Sophos XG is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS, SonicWall TZ and Meraki MX. See our Sophos Cyberoam UTM vs. Sophos XG report.
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