We performed a comparison between Azure Firewall and Sophos 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 base firewall features are quite valuable to us."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"Offers good security and filtering."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution."
"It's quite comfortable to handle the FortiGate firewall."
"FortiGate improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"Fortinet FortiGate protects against internet-based threats, both internal and external. It is scalable, stable, easy to use, and easy to install."
"It's super reliable. I don't think I've ever had a reliability issue with it."
"The most valuable feature is threat intelligence. It is based on filtering and can identify multiple threats."
"The solution has many useful features. For example, the solution allows users to create virtual IP addresses."
"The solution should be capable of self-scaling, which is one of the features we like about it."
"Great security and connectivity."
"It's auto-scalable, which is a great feature."
"It is easy for me to protect certain ports or even the IP addresses, as well as do whitelisting, blacklisting, and the FQDN when we want virtual machines connected and to protect certain websites."
"The most valuable feature is the integration into the overall cloud platform."
"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."
"So far, the solution has been problem-free."
"UTM 9 brings along IPSec as well as iPhone and iPad support. This seems small but it’s useful."
"The initial setup is easy."
"With Sophos, we have not had any incidents this year. The security provided has been good. It has proven to be okay for our needs."
"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."
"It does not take much effort or thinking to understand how it works."
"I have no problem with the cost or licensing of this solution. This is a primary reason whay I wanted this solution. It does the same thing cheaper than other name brands."
"It meets our compliance needs in an elastic computer environment."
"The user interface could be improved to make it less confusing and easier to set up."
"They have to just improve its performance when we enable all UTM features. When you enable all the features, the performance of FortiGate, as well as of Sophos and SonicWall, goes down."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding FortiAnalyzer to its solution, we should not have to use another solution. FortiAnalyzer can provide more detailed information."
"Its customer service could be better."
"Currently, FortiGate is providing SSL VPN. But they're missing some features that are available in Palo Alto's SSL VPN."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"One area for improvement is the performance on bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"Fortinet FortiGate is not very easy to use. The navigation could be improved to make it easier to use."
"The interface could be improved, it's not very user friendly."
"This solution is not mature when it comes to handling perimeter traffic like internet browsing."
"For larger enterprises, they need to adjust the scalability."
"It has fewer features than you can get from other firewalls, like anti-spam and anti-phishing. Those kinds of things are not included. It only includes IDS and IDB."
"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."
"Azure Firewall has limited visibility for IDPS, no TLS inspection, no app ID, no user ID, no content ID, no device ID. There is no antivirus or anti-spyware. Azure Firewall doesn't scan traffic for malware unless it triggers an IDPS signature. There is no sandbox or machine learning functionality, meaning we are not protected from Zero-day threats. There is no DNS security and limited web categories."
"An Azure firewall is not a real firewall."
"Azure should be able to work better as a balancer also, instead of just being a firewall. It should have a wider mandate."
"The pricing is an issue."
"I am going to flat out say technical support is terrible. Being a Platinum level customer, I am not happy with the support."
"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."
"Anti-phishing functionality should be improved."
"I would like some features that are available in other brands. For example, I sometimes a person is using too much bandwidth, and it isn't easy to find this information in Sophos. Also, we have to switch connections manually when we are using a VPN and lose the MPLS connection. It isn't automatic."
"There were a lot of features and functionality in Sophos SG UTM but nothing was state of the art in terms of technology. You did not get the latest functions. It was very monolithic as it was based on an old Linux PuTTY system."
"They could definitely improve on the support, especially in other countries."
"We would like to have unique viewable IDs for rules and in the packet filter logfile, for easier debugging of old log files."
Azure Firewall is ranked 17th in Firewalls with 33 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. 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 UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". 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 UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Azure Firewall vs. Sophos UTM report.
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