We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate, Sophos Cyberoam UTM, and WatchGuard XTM [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The security on offer is very good."
"Consolidated our network environment at all locations, but mainly at our datacenter."
"Fortigate's most valuable feature is that it doesn't need a push policy when writing rules."
"It can expand easily."
"Their reliability and their policy of pre-shipping replacements when a unit has failed."
"The customization potential is quite impressive."
"The security features that they have are quite good. On top of that, their licensing model is quite nice where they don't charge you anything for the SD-WAN functionality for the firewall."
"The solution is easy to integrate."
"The solution has good load balancers."
"It has been working fine. You just turn it on, and it works."
"We consider the user level and control features of Sophos Cyberoam UTM to be the best."
"In some circumstances, the malware functionality is the most important feature, and in other cases, some other features."
"The most valuable features are the firewall section, the VPN, and how you control live users."
"The product has helped control bandwidth utilization, as well as enhanced connectivity and security to remote locations."
"Web application filtering eases internet access control."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"There is a site-to-site VPN configuration between others people."
"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."
"WatchGuard XTM is fairly basic. We use it as the perimeter firewall. The main point is to protect from attack software and hacking."
"After installing the product, we achieved awareness of our data protection needs and email misuse."
"I have to say that the initial setup was complex. The deployment took a few days to get set up. Initially, we were using an IPVanish. We switched to this tool since we thought it would be easier. But it turns out it wasn't easier to set up and run."
"If they could extend their fabric towards other vendor environments for integration, that would be great."
"The cloud features and integration could be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"The support structure needs to be improved because every time we contact them, there is a delay in the response."
"With FortiGate, the main complaint that I have heard is about the technical support."
"The Wi-Fi controller needs a lot of improvement."
"Due to its higher cost, Fortinet FortiGate can lead to increased operational expenses."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could have a more advanced reporting function."
"The VPN needs to be improved."
"Sophos VPN connectivity could be improved, as it can be lengthy, and users take longer to connect"
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could improve by adding VPN site-to-site capabilities. The correct version does not work with Microsoft Azure 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 product is at its end-of-life. There is nothing to improve as it will be discontinued."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"The policy is a bit too vague."
"The VPN errors are not helpful when troubleshooting."
"Sometimes we have had issues with stability of the product."
"I would like them to improve the product's overall protections. This would be good for all product users."
"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)."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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