We performed a comparison between Sophos XG and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway 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."FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"It blocks the vulnerabilities that can negatively impact us."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a scalable solution."
"LinkGreat firewall capabilities"
"Security management tool that's easy to integrate and easy to work with. No issues found with its stability and scalability."
"The ease of setting the solution up is a valuable aspect for us."
"The stability and scalability of this solution are satisfactory. Its SD-WAN, VPN, and URL filtering features are very useful."
"The main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"The user authentication rules are very useful."
"Sophos firewalls are scalable. They are pretty strong in security. So, when they provide any kind of firewall, they provide all the features such as anti-spam, antivirus, etc."
"The stability of Sophos XG is good, it has good performance."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is flexibility."
"In terms of the functionality, I think it's pretty straightforward. It's easy to pick up. It's also user-friendly."
"Over the past two years, during the COVID pandemic, the VPN has helped us a lot."
"The VPN feature is the most valuable. It has come in handy during this period when people are working from home. The filtering feature is also valuable because you can easily filter the sites that you don't want to visit. You can also set timely surfing quotas."
"The most valuable features of Sophos XG are the ease of management and good out-of-the-box reporting."
"This is a capable appliance and the standard features work well for us."
"The solution can scale well."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from web filtering, malware protection, and antivirus."
"One issue that I have had is that sometimes I need to monitor the traffic, so I need to filter it according to the user and which user is using it the most. I experience a bottleneck most of the time, particularly at the peak time when the number of contracts and users are at maximum."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"Its customer service could be better."
"They should improve the interface to make it more user-friendly."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"The setup is pretty complex and not easy to implement."
"We would like to see a better training platform implemented."
"It should be more stable. There should be full integration within Fortinet products themselves as well as with other third-party products. Especially when you're not dealing with SIEM and the correlation of the security box, we want Fortinet to be able to share that information with as many other products as it can."
"We are facing some technical issues with Sophos XG right now. We have already escalated this issue with the Sophos technical support. They seem to be working on it. We are satisfied with the technical support. They reply quickly to our queries, but sometimes take time upgrading their systems."
"I can't use the product's application control feature, making it a disadvantage of the solution where improvements are required."
"In the product, the area revolving around SD-WAN has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The cloud support needs to be improved."
"We had a difficult time assigning IP addresses to specific MAC addresses."
"When you are using it as a controller for the wireless access points, it doesn't perform well. It is not suitable for the public cloud. It is more suitable for enterprise data. It is not really the equipment for cloud data centers. I am looking for a data center firewall."
"There have been some issues when upgrading. For some reason, parts of the configuration become unconfigured, I then have to reconfigure it. I should not need to keep reconfiguring it after upgrades."
"Some businesses require Dynamic IP. This feature would be useful if it worked."
"The product has some scalability and data management issues where improvements are required."
"Although manageable, the user interface is a little bit slow and could be improved."
"Sometimes it reboots when you least expect it, and that's the main issue."
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Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is ranked 10th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 3 reviews. Sophos XG is rated 8.2, while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is rated 6.0. The top reviewer of Sophos XG writes "Easy to use and deploy with an improved pricing structure in place". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zyxel Unified Security Gateway writes "Offers good anti-spam and web filtering features but needs to improve in the area of scalability". Sophos XG is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS and SonicWall TZ, whereas Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, WatchGuard Firebox, SonicWall TZ and Meraki MX. See our Sophos XG vs. Zyxel Unified Security Gateway report.
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