We performed a comparison between Sophos Cyberoam UTM, Sophos UTM, and WatchGuard XTM [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The product is easy to maintain."
"Web Filtering and Application Filtering saves a lot of my bandwidth and improves the user's productivity."
"The solution works perfectly without any users."
"I like the SSL VPN connection. Cyberoam works well for controlling users and authenticating their connection to the internet."
"In some circumstances, the malware functionality is the most important feature, and in other cases, some other features."
"The reporting features are very good."
"The solution is easy to use."
"SD-WAN and IPSec features are valuable to me."
"Efficient and effective - it's easy to separate rules."
"Has great security features and does a good job of protecting the network."
"I have no problem with the cost or licensing of this solution. This is a primary reason whay I wanted this solution. It does the same thing cheaper than other name brands."
"I like the web filtering options."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the firewall application and application control."
"It has helped by identifying threats within the company. If there are computers or servers that are compromised, then we are able to identify them right away in the system."
"The UTM features are reasonably strong and the patterns are updated on a regular basis"
"We've found the technical support to be helpful."
"Monitoring of network activity is included in the box."
"They have a reporting system which can store data over a very long period of time. Not many other firewall vendors provide a reporting system, but if they do, like Fortinet does, then you've got buy that as an additional product and that can be more than twice as expensive as the initial investment in the firewall. And without reporting over a long-term period, you're just about wasting your time."
"It is stable and does not require you to reboot all the time."
"Reputation Enabled Defense indicates that some websites are so infested that it's not even worth visiting them, and therefore saving the bandwidth of going through the detection process."
"Application Control is fantastic with over 2,500 applications and the granularity that we can either allow people to view but not be able to log on to Facebook; or view it and log onto it if they're in the marketing department, but not play Facebook games. There are all sorts of different options like that. So it's highly granular."
"After installing the product, we achieved awareness of our data protection needs and email misuse."
"I like the hostwatch because I can see what traffic uses the most bandwidth and I can block that site."
"We have used technical support for WatchGuard many times and overall, we are satisfied with it. They are always listening and there is a good reaction time to our findings. When there are issues, they really try to resolve them."
"The product is at its end-of-life. There is nothing to improve as it will be discontinued."
"Sometimes, during part of the configuration, if you don't have a lot of technical knowledge, then you may struggle a bit to configure it."
"There is a lot or room for improvement, because it is still not a fourth or fifth generation firewall. It lacks security features."
"Needs a mail alert/notification when the device loses any of its connections, during ISP redundancy implementation."
"Technical support could be faster."
"Its scalability is not that great."
"The product needs to improve its pricing."
"I would say there's room for improvement in terms of the GUI. Because it is better than some of the other standard firewalls. They have the drag and drop features."
"It's stable, but the reaction time of the GUI is terrible."
"Anti-phishing functionality should be improved."
"I would like to see the SD-WAN feature improved."
"We didn’t find any issues but I know there have been some in the last few years."
"They could definitely improve on the support, especially in other countries."
"Support for IKEv2 is needed in this solution."
"It does have built-in policies, which enable you to disable USB devices, etc. It would be nice if they had more policies because there are not that many of them."
"The five-factor authentication needs improvement."
"Sometimes we have had issues with stability of the product."
"The setting policies need improvement. It needs an easier way to do static NAT and check on what policy is being used for that specific traffic."
"The initial setup is neither simple nor complex. If you know the base in networking and how the firewall works, you will be able to figure it out."
"Syslog (Dimension) is focused on presentation, but needs more focus on utility like SonicWall syslog (GMS/Analyzer)."
"One huge issue with WatchGuard XTM is that I'm not getting reports in a readable format. Readable means, I don't want Excel online. We repeat auditing when we trigger the report or setup calendar. That functionality is what we are looking for from WatchGuard XTM here."
"I would like them to improve the product's overall protections. This would be good for all product users."
"The VPN errors are not helpful when troubleshooting."
"WatchGuard doesn't have a product that allows them to get into the data center. And that's just because there is no hardware to do the job. The software could do it, but there's no hardware that allows that to happen at the moment. So it doesn't scale as well as some other products, that's for sure."
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