We performed a comparison between Azure Firewall and Sophos Cyberoam UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The response is very quick and they can visually resolve our problems in a short period."
"It can expand easily."
"Security solution with a straightforward and quick setup. It's a stable and scalable product."
"It's quite comfortable to handle the FortiGate firewall."
"The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtering testing applications, web filtering, and the new VPN."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution is easy to configure and maintain remotely."
"The stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"Great security and connectivity."
"Network filtering is valuable. The scalability capability from the cloud-native service helps us a lot because it simplifies our day-to-day maintenance activity."
"The Layer four features are okay and meet my business needs."
"I like its order management feature. It doesn't have the kind of threat intelligence that Palo Alto has, but the order management makes it much simpler to know the difference."
"It provided ease of maintenance. If a new firewall was needed, we only had to run the pipelines for this. So, the maintenance was very easy."
"The firewall policy control, URL content control, and antivirus are all the most valuable aspects. Threat prevention is as well quite good."
"The solution has many useful features. For example, the solution allows users to create virtual IP addresses."
"Azure's cost-effectiveness is its major advantage."
"The product is worth the investment."
"The solution works perfectly without any users."
"Content filtering, as this enables me to control that which employees can view at different time quotas."
"I believe it's the advanced security software that offers SMPP protection for the agent."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The solution has good load balancers."
"The VPN is excellent on the solution."
"It is very easy to use."
"One of the problems I was having was with user mapping, and it is an issue for which I have escalated tickets with Fortinet support."
"They sometimes hide some features and if you want to enable them, you have to go in the CLI, enable the feature and configure it through the CLI. Customers, typically, like everything to be done by the GUI."
"Backup can be improved."
"If I had any criticism that I would give FortiGate, it would be that they need to stop changing their logging format. Every time we do a firmware upgrade, it is a massive issue on the SIM. Parsers have to be rebuilt. Even the FortiGate guys came in and said that they don't play well in the sandbox."
"Some of the software stability could improve."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"In the next release, I would like to see the interface simplified to be more user-friendly."
"The license renewal process, annual renewal price, and the web application firewall features should be improved."
"This solution is not mature when it comes to handling perimeter traffic like internet browsing."
"There should be better monitoring and logging. Currently, it is put in Sentinel. It should be more seamless and from the interface."
"Azure has new versions including a premium firewall. But I would like to see them not put the premium features on Azure Firewall Premium alone because it is quite expensive."
"There are a number of things that need to be simplified, but it's mostly costs. It needs to be simplified because it's pretty expensive."
"It would be nice to be able to create groupings for servers and offer groups of IP addresses."
"It would be much easier if the on-premises, firewall rules, had some kind of export-import possibility in place, which is not the case right now."
"Azure Firewall definitely needs a broader feature base. It should be able to go all the way up to layer 7 when looking at applications and things like that."
"For larger enterprises, they need to adjust the scalability."
"Smaller CR15 units don’t have a hard disc or built in IView software. These units could do with that feature."
"Its scalability is not that great."
"Once in a while, an unwanted email will slip in. You have to set your parameters to avoid that happening, but once in a while, an email has slipped past firewall. Once you update the firmware, you notice that it doesn't happen. If an email slips in, I get a little bit worried. I do get the report, but you just don't want that situation happening in the first place."
"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."
"While the security features are excellent, they could be improved."
"What needs improvement in Sophos Cyberoam UTM is openness in the competition among Sophos partners or any other Sophos product. Another area for improvement in the solution is pricing. It could be cheaper."
"The data support response time should be improved."
"I would like to see real-time alerts on traffic insights."
Azure Firewall is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 33 reviews while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Azure Firewall writes "Easy to use and configure but could be more robust". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Cyberoam UTM writes "Stable and has a straightforward setup; reporting is fast and easy". Azure Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos UTM, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Sophos XG. See our Azure Firewall vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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