We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW 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."Virtual Domains (VDOMs) are a feature that we found valuable."
"The customization potential is quite impressive."
"The main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"The most important features of Fortinet FortiGate are the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and firewall control applications."
"UTM/NGFW features and FortiCloud for logs and backups are awesome."
"The solution is very easy to understand. It's not overly complex."
"I like Fortinet FortiGate's antispam filter, SPN, and clustering features."
"The CLI is robust and powerful, enabling rapid, consistent changes via SSH."
"The packet inspection capabilities are great."
"Configuration and deploying are easy."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Being able to search in clear text is simple for the customer and for troubleshooting an environment."
"Check Point NGFW has helped the company in the prevention of cyber attacks that could affect operations and slow down production."
"Check Point NGFW has helped us to significantly reduce our risk of cyberattacks by providing comprehensive protection against a wide range of threats, including malware, viruses, ransomware, phishing attacks, and zero-day threats."
"The most valuable feature is the IPsec VPN."
"The information stored in the logs is very descriptive and includes a lot of details."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The cost of the solution is very reasonable."
"Sophos UTM's best feature is synchronized security."
"The most valuable feature is the price. I've been requesting prices all over these years between different solutions like Fortinet, Palo Alto, and Check Point and Sophos has been the cheapest and the best of all of them that I have tried. I have been working with Fortinet, it's a fact that the price is surprisingly better."
"With over 150 firewalls in our portal, management and monitoring have never been easier."
"Brings greater visibility into the network traffic coming inside and passing away from the company."
"The three most important features for us are web protection, web server protection, and network protection."
"It makes it a lot easier for us to maintain things. Prior to it, things were more difficult. This means less time on us. We can focus on other things. The recovery is more in man-hours for us than anything else."
"Some of the software stability could improve."
"Its reporting capabilities can be improved. It should have some out-of-the-box reporting capabilities and some degree of customization. The basic reporting that it currently has is not sufficient to create more usable reports. It needs some sort of out-of-the-box reporting. They try to make customers purchase FortiAnalyzer for this kind of reporting, which is an additional cost. Other firewall vendors, such as SonicWall and Sophos, provide this sort of reporting without any additional cost."
"The cloud features can be improved."
"There are some complex administration tasks in their administration portal. That needs to be improved."
"The support we receive when we need to upgrade is not satisfactory and has room for improvement."
"It's my understanding that more of the current generation features could be brought in. There could be more integration with EDRs, for example."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"I would like to see a more intuitive dashboard."
"Sometimes there are security bugs, which is frustrating."
"One area which is still lacking is the site-to-site VPN solution."
"It would be nice if there is a mobile-friendly console for our techs."
"I really want to see geo-blocking as a feature of NGFW."
"The policy installation module should be improved."
"They should integrate all blades to use a single policy rather than multiple."
"Improvement regarding the expansion of the SMS's compatibility to include various virtualization environments would be beneficial."
"The virtual environment is not stable at all. We have some customers who are using the virtual environment feature, and sometimes it crashes. We have many tickets open and the response is not as good as expected. We have to wait months for a resolution."
"I would like them to move from the Classic Load Balancer to the Network Load Balancer. This would make it easier to do certain things with Amazon. They are able to do some enhancements with Network Load Balancer that they are unable to do with Classic Load Balancer."
"The five-factor authentication needs improvement."
"The product could be simplified and made more self-explanatory."
"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."
"The pricing is an issue."
"Initially, there were issues with the wireless network as wireless access points were disappearing from the dashboard after some time."
"Sophos UTM could improve the way the configuration has to be done. I have to do the configuration through the command line interface but if it could be done through the graphical user interface it would be much better."
"I didn't like it much. It suits only small businesses. It isn't scalable and reliable. There is a very critical issue with the power supply."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 275 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Check Point NGFW writes "Good antivirus protection and URL filtering with very good user identification capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Cisco Secure Firewall and Azure Firewall, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Check Point NGFW vs. Sophos UTM report.
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