We performed a comparison between Check Point Power-1 [EOL] and Sophos XG based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The IPS is good. It protect my network from attackers."
"The threat prevention is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"Anti-Spam web content filterinG."
"It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"A strong point of FortiGate is the graphical interface is complete and easy to use."
"I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable."
"Their reliability and their policy of pre-shipping replacements when a unit has failed."
"Web filtering and two-factor authentication are great features."
"The VPN allows users to connect remotely and securely."
"It is very user friendly and easy to manage from the administrative point of view. It is good, reliable, and easy to implement."
"I like it for its simplicity. It is very simple to configure and implement. It is a very good product for medium-sized organizations."
"Sophos CG is cost-effective, which makes it really suitable for SMB. If you want basic security and more embedded features, go with Sophos XG."
"Web publishing is important, as well as the importance of the antivirus patch."
"Sophos XG protects our network from advanced threats."
"There are many features. VPN, firewalling, and intrusion detection are the main features that are most useful for us at this time."
"The solution has all the security features you would need for any type of environment."
"In my experience, the solution was easy to use, has lots of features, and is easy to configure."
"While FortiGate is cheaper than most other solutions, we're seeing increased license renewal costs. Most of our clients are asking for more significant discounts because the price is going up."
"It should come integrated or have its own type of network monitor tool in a module. There should just be one package, and you are good to go."
"Fortinet FortiGate should improve the VPN tokens."
"The cloud features and integration could be improved."
"FortiLink is the interface on the firewall that allows you to extend switch management across all of your switches in the network. The problem with it is that you can't use multiple interfaces unless you set them up in a lag. Only then you can run them. So, it forces you to use a core type of switch to propagate that management out to the rest of the switches, and then it is running the case at 200. It leaves you with 18 ports on the firewall because it is also a layer-three router that could also be used as a switch, but as soon as you do that, you can't really use them. They could do a little bit more clean up in the way the stacking interface works. Some use cases and the documentation on the FortiLink checking interface are a little outdated. I can find stuff on version 5 or more, but it is hard to find information on some of the newer firmware. The biggest thing I would like to see is some improvement in the switch management feature. I would like to be able to relegate some of the ports, which are on the firewall itself, to act as a switch to take advantage of those ports. Some of these firewalls have clarity ports on them. If I can use those, it would mean that I need to buy two less switches, which saves time. I get why they don't, but I would still like to see it because it would save a little bit of space in the server rack."
"The central management for the FortiGate Fortinet Firewall needs improvement. They have the manager to do the essential management for both SD-WAN and for the security policy. They should also improve the SD-WAN function."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"They should make the rule sets more understandable for the end user. When you're trying to explain to somebody how a computer network is secured, sometimes it's difficult for an end user or customer to understand. If there was a way to make the terminology more accessible to the end user, the set up could be easier. They should translate the technical jargon to an easily relatable and understandable conversation for the end user, the customer, that would be brilliant. Particularly in an environment where the IT structure is audited regularly, there's always pressure from the auditor to up the standards and up the security and you get your USCERT's that come out and there's a warning about this and the customer will want to lock out so much and when you apply it they run into issue where they can't search the internet or print to their remote office. Of course they can't print to your remote office, they just locked it up. They should make the language more understandable for the customer. If there's a product out there that made the jargon understandable to John Q. Public, I would buy that."
"Multi-factor authentication would have been a plus in security at the time."
"Its price should be improved. Its features are pretty okay, but the price is the area where we have to fight more. They should do something about the price structure."
"Integration with Active Directory is not reliable."
"The main problem with Sophos XG today is that it doesn't have a feature where you actually know the quality of an international link, which would allow us to we know if the link is operational or not. We need more information. It's losing packets on the network. It's high latency. So, we need more information to know if the link is really bad or really good, and today, we will only know if it's working and this just isn't enough."
"They need to allow their solution to integrate with other products and not just other Sophos solutions."
"There's an IP address delivery for our VPN client and a limited range of IP addresses. So this is a problem in the latest firmware release, but rather than using homework scenarios, we need a lot of VPN clients."
"The response time could stand improvement."
"It would be helpful if the solution offered some tutorial videos to help new users learn the system quickly."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvements to simplify the interface and more policy deployments."
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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 XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews. Check Point Power-1 [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Sophos XG is rated 8.2. 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 XG writes "Easy to use and deploy with an improved pricing structure in place". Check Point Power-1 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Sophos XG is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and SonicWall TZ.
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