We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate, Sophos Cyberoam UTM, and Sophos UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The most valuable features are the policies, filtering, and configuration."
"The web tutor and automatic rules by schedule are good features."
"Security, SD-WAN, and Streetscape are valuable features."
"Good load balancing feature."
"The inspection and web security features are most valuable."
"The threat prevention is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"We can use our devices to check all of the perimeters. It secures email websites."
"FortiGate SD-WAN facilitated a smooth transition for our customers between their two internet service providers, ensuring uninterrupted connectivity without any downtime."
"For a small-medium enterprise this solution is easy to manage and operate."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"It has been working fine. You just turn it on, and it works."
"The security capabilities are okay."
"Our customers find it economical and offers good security. These two features are key. Ease of installation and implementation are also key factors."
"The performance has been good overall."
"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 find Sophos Cyberoam UTM very good. I like the feature of being able to block off Mac IDs that host users. For example, you have a Mac or Windows laptop and you created a hotspot. Other devices like mobiles and tablets e.g. iPads connected to that hotspot. We can block those devices that connected to the hotspot we created, only through Sophos. It's a good feature we didn't find in other UTMs."
"Sophos integrates seamlessly, and we don't even feel it is running in the background."
"It allows our developers to be able to securely log into servers to deploy and manage software."
"It works well without any maintenance. So far, it has worked pretty well regardless of the traffic."
"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."
"It does not take much effort or thinking to understand how it works."
"An easy solution to learn because the graphics are very intuitive."
"Sophos UTM has improved the porting section. It has improved security by seeing the gaps. For example, when you discover that an entry has been using a certain application, with Sophos UTM acting as a Layer 7 firewall, you can block the application, not the port."
"So far, the solution has been problem-free."
"The solution is very expensive."
"The debugging and troubleshooting has room for improvement."
"The UTM filtering needs improvement."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"There aren't really any negative aspects to discuss."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"There are problems with the custom reporting of the unique traffic. The data is there, but it is too difficult for us to extract."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"The solution's pricing could be a problem for some small businesses."
"While the security features are excellent, they could be improved."
"It is not a scalable product. This is because if you want to increase the capacity of the solution, then you have to change the device."
"The product fails to provide proper reports, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The product had a hang issue. We needed to reboot, recreate the image, and reconfigure the previous image because the product hanged frequently."
"I would like to see real-time alerts on traffic insights."
"The following could be improved: Web Filtering using wildcards; clarity regarding the firewall rules; granular reporting features."
"I had an issue when I was trying to stop a user from using too much bandwidth while I was using Azure, I was not able to stop them."
"They could reduce the price."
"We'd like to see them offer their services on mobile devices like tablets. I'm not sure if that's an option or not."
"They could use more SSL VPN support."
"The scalability of the product is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Monitoring and reporting are areas that need improvement."
"The memory and processing were problematic. The interface could be better."
"Sophos should improve its ability to check something like bandwidth consumption for users or something more real-time."
"The solution's technical support for India needs to be improved."
