We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate, Null Product, and Sophos UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."I think that the UTM features are the most value, as it truly protects my infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature of FortiGate is FortiView which provides proactive monitoring."
"It's a user-friendly firewall. Most of the tasks are very simple. It's simple to configure and troubleshoot this firewall."
"The network security and cloud security are most valuable."
"I only deal with it from a security analyst's point of view. I don't really get into the features of the actual FortiGate. From the security point of view, it works, and it does its job."
"The most valuable feature is the FortiManager for centralized management."
"Their reliability and their policy of pre-shipping replacements when a unit has failed."
"FortiGate improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the efficiency and mail filtering module."
"Sophos UTM is very user-friendly and has good integration with other solutions."
"It allows me to easily connect with more than forty-five remote sites and more than fifty remote users between IPsec and SSL VPN, applying the web filter and application filter to ensure a secure connection."
"Sophos is a unified solution. We have anti-virus protection, firewall rules, knotting, and DACC all in one box."
"Technical support is very responsive."
"An easy solution to learn because the graphics are very intuitive."
"It is a very good product. The threat monitoring process is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable features of Sophos UTM are the ease of use, it is very user-friendly. You can understand what they implement in the new firmware, and it's easy to manage the firewalls."
"There are some tiny bugs that sometimes affect the operations. In the past revision of it, there was a bug. Because of the bug, we had to downgrade the version. It happened only with the last revision."
"Some features of Fortinet FortiGate are actually fee enabled that are inconvenient for deploying in production. Other issues relate to isolation with Cisco products and your server."
"The web-cache feature which was previously on the FortiGate device, but was deleted with the recent upgrade should be returned. It was a very valuable feature for us."
"Performance and technical support are the main issues with this solution."
"Due to its higher cost, Fortinet FortiGate can lead to increased operational expenses."
"Quality control on their firmware versions needs improvement. When they introduce new firmware, there tend to be bugs."
"Fortinet should focus on enhancing the capabilities of FortiGate by consolidating its various products, such as FortiGate Cloud, FortiManager, and FortiAnalyzer."
"It needs to improve its ISP load balancing."
"In short, the UI and UX are the areas of improvement in Sophos UTM and similar solutions compared to Palo Alto."
"Sophos should be more user-friendly, have more dashboards, and an easier implementation."
"There can be a delay when it comes to reaching out to technical support."
"Initially, there were issues with the wireless network as wireless access points were disappearing from the dashboard after some time."
"This product could use some improvement with web filtering. It takes a lot of time and effort to set up and maintain."
"Updates come out agonizingly slowly, a trickle."
"An area for improvement in Sophos UTM is load balancing because my company cannot use it currently. If Sophos could release a new configuration for the load balancing feature to work for my company, that would be great."
"The only time we face a problem or issues is when we place a ticket. We have found that response is very slow."
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