pfSense vs Sophos XG
We performed a comparison between pfSense vs Sophos XG based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
"Web filtering and two-factor authentication are great features."
"Offers good security and filtering."
"The most valuable feature is the interface, which is very user friendly. We are utilizing most of the features, like content filtering. The firewall is powerful."
"FortiGate SD-WAN facilitated a smooth transition for our customers between their two internet service providers, ensuring uninterrupted connectivity without any downtime."
"The multi-tenancy feature is most valuable. It integrates very well with FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a security device. It can optimize security on the networks of a company. It actually protects the company from attacks from outside. With FortiGate, you can categorize the users. You can create a group of users that can access all of the websites for their work. You can limit other users' access."
"We use the filtering feature the most. It has filtering and inbuilt securities. We can create customized rules to define which users can access a particular type of site. We can create policies inside the firewall."
"Fortinet FortiGate is scalable for our users. Right now, we have almost 70 users. We do not have any plan to increase our usage of FortiGate. For maintaining the firewall solution, one staff member is enough."
"I like pfSense's reports and how I can control access to the policies on the firewall."
"I have found pfSense to be stable."
"The initial setup is not complex."
"Content protection, content inspection, and the application level firewall."
"The solution is fairly scalable when it comes to integrating with other applications and data sets."
"Improved service performance and availability through redundancy."
"We can run it on any hardware."
"The main features of this solution are customization and ease to use."
"Definitely, its usability is very good, and it's a very robust firewall."
"The multifactor authentication is helpful because whenever the user wants to connect to the firewall, they have to use the authenticator before they can access it."
"It is easy to implement."
"The stability of Sophos XG is good, it has good performance."
"Everything is consolidated into a single box, offering comprehensive functionality, including Wi-Fi access and other features."
"The dashboard is customizable as well. It gives you the feature of including what you need to see as soon as you open the dashboard and to remove the non-necessary stuff, which varies from one organization to the next and from one IT manager to the next. And it has a wide variety of reports as well, template and customizable reports."
"The security of Sophos XG is very good."
"I like how you can integrate with other endpoints and Intercept X in one central management platform. I think it's a perfect solution. Sophos will manage everything in one container. You can manage many firewalls or endpoints within one panel."
"You do need some IT knowledge in order to effectively work with the solution."
"They should improve the interface to make it more user-friendly."
"I would like Fortinet to add more automation to FortiGate."
"There is room for improvement related to the logging and reporting aspect."
"The central management for the FortiGate Fortinet Firewall needs improvement. They have the manager to do the essential management for both SD-WAN and for the security policy. They should also improve the SD-WAN function."
"The sniffing packets or packet captures, can be simplified and improved because it's a little confusing."
"The solution is very expensive."
"Some features of Fortinet FortiGate are actually fee enabled that are inconvenient for deploying in production. Other issues relate to isolation with Cisco products and your server."
"Ultimately, we'd like something stronger, and something that can handle threats better in real-time."
"Reporting and real-time monitoring, since I'm used to Watchguard's reporting features, it would be nice to have an embedded solution for reporting."
"Ease of use is a problem for a user who is unfamiliar with this product because, in the interface, everything has to be set manually."
"The access control aspect of the product could be improved."
"Layer 7 advanced firewall features are not included in the solution."
"The interface is not very shiny and attractive."
"If a user doesn't have a large amount of experience in Linux systems, they will have problems using this solution. Users need to be highly skilled in troubleshooting competency. Users who do not have such skills will find the product difficult to use."
"Needs services on additional features, such as managing inventory and generating reports."
"The interface could be simplified and diagnostic system graphs improved."
"XG is at its end of life. People are moving to XGS."
"The MTR feature needs enhancing."
"Scalability could be improved. It could be better."
"The reporting could be improved in this solution by adding more details."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvements to simplify the interface and more policy deployments."
"The SD-WAN capability is not as good as it is in FortiGate, and is something that should be improved."
"I would like to have remote access to clients using a static IP for a certain period of time."
Netgate pfSense is ranked 1st in Firewalls with 128 reviews while Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews. Netgate pfSense is rated 8.6, while Sophos XG is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Netgate pfSense writes "User-friendly, easy to manage the firewall, rule-wise and interface-wise". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos XG writes "Easy to use and deploy with an improved pricing structure in place". Netgate pfSense is most compared with OPNsense, KerioControl, Sophos UTM, Cisco Secure Firewall and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas Sophos XG is most compared with OPNsense, Sophos XGS, SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX and Sophos UTM. See our Netgate pfSense vs. Sophos XG report.
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