We performed a comparison between Check Point Power-1 [EOL] and Sophos UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
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"Anti-Spam web content filterinG."
"The next-gen features, the unified threat management capabilities are something that just about everybody is interested in at this point."
"Customers are more inclined towards FortiGate because of application control, web filtering, and anti-spam features. The support from the FortiGate team is good, and price-wise, it is affordable."
"The security on offer is very good."
"FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"Overall, the pricing of the solution is very good. The product offers good value."
"The VPN allows users to connect remotely and securely."
"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 UTM's best feature is synchronized security."
"What I like about the solution is the ease of use."
"Sophos has a single pane of glass which allows me to manage all my VPCs from a single instance, managing all my firewall from one place."
"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."
"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."
"So far, the solution has been problem-free."
"It meets our compliance needs in an elastic computer environment."
"It would be ideal if they had some sort of GUI interface for troubleshooting and diagnostics."
"Lacks sufficient security options."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"Scalability for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be improved. SD-WAN security for this solution also needs some improvement."
"The solution could have licensing fees reduced in the future."
"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."
"The support structure needs to be improved because every time we contact them, there is a delay in the response."
"There is a lot of improvement needed with SSL-VPN."
"Multi-factor authentication would have been a plus in security at the time."
"The reporting could improve by providing information on where, or from which device attacks are coming from. We are already given the country where the attack is coming from but more information would be beneficial."
"VPN needs IKEv2, but it’s in the roadmap. Also, all new, cool features will only come to the new Sophos XG Firewall."
"The solution needs better integration with captive portals and XGs."
"During initial configuration, I encountered a few issues."
"They could use more SSL VPN support."
"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."
"Stay away from the wireless models, since you cannot put them in HA. They start to give you some weird issues once you start getting into multiple SSIDs and networks."
"This product could use some improvement with web filtering. It takes a lot of time and effort to set up and maintain."
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Check Point Power-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 2 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Check Point Power-1 [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Check Point Power-1 [EOL] writes "Good intrusion prevention, firewall, and VPN 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 Power-1 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall.
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