We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall and Sophos Cyberoam 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."Fortinet FortiGate appears to be scalable."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use. Anyone can easily maintain it."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is load balancing. It can provide central management and VPNA. Additionally, it has enhanced our security environment."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and there are several operating systems that can include the hardware capacities. In the newer releases, the resources were more useful because they were included in the operating system."
"The interface is very user-friendly and I like it very much."
"The scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate."
"The IPS is good. It protect my network from attackers."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are it is one of the most mature firewalls in the UTM bundle."
"The most valuables feature of this product are given by the comprehensive VPN solutions it offers and its tools for troubleshooting and debugging."
"I have integrated it for incidence response. If there is a security event, the Cisco firewall will automatically block the traffic, which is valuable."
"It is a secure product."
"At this point, we find that this product has high productivity and high availability and there is no need for improvement."
"The most valuable features for my client are the ASDM and monitoring."
"It joins all branches and permits employees to work outside their offices, but everything is based on high securities standards (PCI compliance)."
"The content filtering is good."
"Cisco ASA works very nicely from an administration perspective. The management of the device is very nice. The ASDM (Adaptive Security Device Manager) is the software that we use and it is very easy to configure using the GUI."
"Web and content filtering are valuable in preventing people from abusing the network and pushing up the bandwidth price."
"All in one UTM appliance."
"User and network policies to be managed on a single screen with powerful filtering and search options."
"I'm more inclined towards the conventional firewall. So for me, I'm more geared towards the standard firewall type functionalities as well as the web application firewall because that seems to work fine."
"I like Sophos Cyberoam UTM as a security component or device for organizations. Performance-wise, it's a satisfactory solution, and it works okay. It also has good features."
"The product has helped control bandwidth utilization, as well as enhanced connectivity and security to remote locations."
"The port forwarding is good."
"For a small-medium enterprise this solution is easy to manage and operate."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"It should come integrated or have its own type of network monitor tool in a module. There should just be one package, and you are good to go."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"There are a lot of bugs I have found in the solution and it is difficult to upgrade. These areas need improvement."
"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."
"There are just some services that aren't available. For example, the Ethernet or point-to-point protocols. They could add these services to their product offering - especially services for ISPs."
"It is stable, but its stability can be improved."
"Some of the features, like the stability, need to be improved."
"The reporting and other features are nice, but there is an issue with applying the configuration. That part needs some improvement."
"The ASAs are being replaced with the new Firepowers and they have a different type of structure in the configuration to be able to migrate from one to the other."
"ASDM can be improved."
"Cisco is still catching up with its Firepower Next-Generation firewalls."
"It could also use a reporting dashboard."
"The security features in the URL category need more improvement."
"The installation and integration of Cisco ASA with FirePOWER can be improved. The management with Fortigate is easier than Cisco ASA on FirePOWER. The management side of Cisco ASA can be improved so it can be more easily configured and used."
"The VPN is an area that can be improved."
"Its scalability is not that great."
"I would like to see a better content management pack and also the website searching should be better."
"The product is at its end-of-life. There is nothing to improve as it will be discontinued."
"The solution is at its end of life and some of the appliances are finishing."
"The following could be improved: Web Filtering using wildcards; clarity regarding the firewall rules; granular reporting features."
"The solution's pricing could be a problem for some small businesses."
"Needs a mail alert/notification when the device loses any of its connections, during ISP redundancy implementation."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 9th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall writes "Highlights and helps us catch Zero-day vulnerabilities traveling across our network". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Cyberoam UTM writes "Stable and has a straightforward setup; reporting is fast and easy". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos UTM, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Sophos XG and OPNsense. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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