We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, 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 important feature is the VPN connection."
"It helped us a lot with our VPNs for the home office during COVID. There has been more security and flexibility for VPNs and other applications."
"We find all of its features very useful. Its main features are policies and access lists. We use both of them, and we also use routing."
"We are using the Cisco AnyConnect for our end-user VPN with the ASA."
"The solution is used for the protection of the mobile data network. It is protecting 3G/4G Internet customers and the Private APN."
"The most valuable features are the provision of internet access, AnyConnect, and VPN capabilities."
"The AnyConnect remote access VPN gives us an easy way to deploy remote working for our users."
"There are no issues that we are aware of. It does its job silently in the background."
"Layer-3 firewall and routing are the most valuable features."
"Fortigate's most valuable feature is that it doesn't need a push policy when writing rules."
"It is a good source for firewall protection."
"I appreciate FortiGate's flexibility, which allows for centralized management through FortiManager."
"The tool is a nice product and easy to handle. The software's user interface is also good. You can easily implement remote access in the solution."
"The management console is pretty simple, so anyone who understands networking can initially deploy the solution."
"The signature database and zero-day detection are Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features."
"It has improved our security capabilities."
"Sophos UTM is very user-friendly and has good integration with other solutions."
"Sophos UTM's best feature is SIM in the cloud, which combines the gateway solution and endpoint solution to send telemetry data to the cloud and provides full contact visibility regarding security."
"The implementation with the AWS environment was good."
"It improved bandwidth utilization and provided link load balancing features for internet and intranet lease lines."
"It works well without any maintenance. So far, it has worked pretty well regardless of the traffic."
"Has great security features and does a good job of protecting the network."
"Brings greater visibility into the network traffic coming inside and passing away from the company."
"Efficient and effective - it's easy to separate rules."
"Cisco Secure Firewall’s customer support could be improved."
"I would like to see them release a patch for ASAv with cross-platform FirePower integration."
"They should improve their interface."
"Some individuals find the setup and configuration challenging."
"The only drawback of the user interface is when it comes to policies. When you open it and click on the policies, you have to move manually left and right if you want to see the whole field within the cell. Checkpoint has a very detailed user interface."
"The cost is very high. Most organizations cannot afford it."
"You have to know the ASA command line very well because not all operations are available in the graphical interface"
"FlexConfig is there as a bridge for features that are not yet natively integrated into Firepower. It is a way of allowing you to be able to configure things that wouldn't otherwise be possible until the development team can add them into Firepower's native capability. There is still some work that needs to be done around FlexConfig. There are still quite a few complex things, like policy-based routing, that have to be done in FlexConfig, and it doesn't always work perfectly. Sometimes, there are some glitches. It is recommended that you configure FlexConfig policies with Cisco TAC. It would be good to see Cisco accelerate some of those configurations that you can only do in FlexConfig into the platform, so that they are there natively."
"One area for improvement is the performance on bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"The solution could be more user friendly."
"The support costs and licensing are sometimes so expensive."
"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."
"I feel that the reporting needs to be improved."
"There are some complex administration tasks in their administration portal. That needs to be improved."
"Sophos UTM could improve if there was no limitation on users."
"When we call support, we get put on hold for a long time."
"I am going to flat out say technical support is terrible. Being a Platinum level customer, I am not happy with the support."
"The reporting could improve by providing information on where, or from which device attacks are coming from. We are already given the country where the attack is coming from but more information would be beneficial."
"The integration capabilities could be better."
"It's stable, but the reaction time of the GUI is terrible."
"Sophos should be more user-friendly, have more dashboards, and an easier implementation."
"The support could be better."