We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate, Sophos UTM, and Sophos XG based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."We are a visual effects company, and there have been a number of high profile security issues in our industry. This has brought us to a higher standard of security, which our clients are very keen on these days."
"It's very easy to configure."
"The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"Some of the key features of the solution is that it has good reporting, you can receive many details from the connection, for example, clients and website information."
"The wireless control is helpful."
"Our security improved from being able to put in rules and close off unwanted traffic."
"The next-gen features, the unified threat management capabilities are something that just about everybody is interested in at this point."
"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."
"Technical support is very responsive."
"It has made our organization more secure, because we are using a VPN. We are not accessing services directly. It allows us to segregate some of the traffic for individuals which may be more of a developer role rather than an operational role needing access to developer resources, but not necessarily production operational resources."
"Sophos UTM is very user-friendly and has good integration with other solutions."
"Monitoring and reporting are areas that need improvement."
"What I like about the solution is the ease of use."
"An easy solution to learn because the graphics are very intuitive."
"Stability-wise, I rate this solution a ten out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate this solution a ten out of ten."
"The initial configuration is straightforward thanks to the web GUI. In 30 minutes, you can have a running firewall with UTM protection enabled."
"Technical support is responsive."
"The simplicity and timely updates."
"Over the past two years, during the COVID pandemic, the VPN has helped us a lot."
"We've had good experiences with technical support."
"It is a very stable solution."
"Sophos XG has cybersecurity. It integrates with the antivirus software."
"The firewall feature of Sophos XG has been the most effective for threat prevention."
"The performance is good."
"Due to its higher cost, Fortinet FortiGate can lead to increased operational expenses."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"Currently, FortiGate is providing SSL VPN. But they're missing some features that are available in Palo Alto's SSL VPN."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting."
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"Needs to improve the certificate management (ex. Let's Encrypt support)."
"The management suite is easy and the agent is easy to develop."
"The scalability of the product is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Email spam filtering only works if you have an on-prem Exchange server. It doesn't interface with Office 365 like the XG model. That would be one feature that they could improve. They're not going to do it because they're trying to push us all to XG."
"The five-factor authentication needs improvement."
"The documentation during the AWS integration was a little fuzzy on getting it to work with how the whole public exposure versus private exposure, then routing some of the traffic."
"I would like this solution to support ICAP. Also, they no longer support on-premises management, and are forcing clients to use centralized management via the cloud, which I don't agree with."
"Finding information about Sophos’ sizing guidelines can actually be difficult. Also, Sophos does not make it clear what they mean by “users” when you are sizing a firewall, which then leads to undersized implementations."
"Inability to investigate incidents, there is no tracking."
"When I call, I have to wait at least one to two hours to reach them."
"LAN inbound and outbound traffic requires more control."
"Having a web portal where you could make requests for the categorization of non-categorized items, would be beneficial."
"We had a difficult time assigning IP addresses to specific MAC addresses."
"It is performing well. However, the only challenges that we are facing are the effectiveness with blocking the proxy and tuneling applications, aside from proxy and similar applications. So the application filter on the product is not really performing 100%. Every now and then there are some updates that are happening on such applications, and it takes time until it gets the appropriate updates and becomes capable of capturing such applications and blocking them. A new feature I would really like to see would be some sort of an enhanced application filter with greater efficiency when it comes to the applications that can bypass firewall policies. These applications are really a nightmare. Once they are on the network and not detected, or the appliance is not really successful in capturing them and unblocking them, the bandwidth gets wasted all the time."
"Scalability could be improved. It could be better."
"I would want the level of integration to have another device on your network that is also reliable."