We performed a comparison between Check Point Power-1 [EOL] and Sophos Cyberoam UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The solution is very easy to understand. It's not overly complex."
"It is user friendly, and has all the features you need."
"The reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"It's an easy solution to set up."
"From the firewall perspective, the rules and policies are very sufficient and easy to use."
"The simplicity of the product is great. It's very easy to use, which is a compliment we get all the time in terms of feedback."
"The most valuable feature is the web filter."
"Some of the key features of the solution is that it has good reporting, you can receive many details from the connection, for example, clients and website information."
"The VPN allows users to connect remotely and securely."
"The VPN is excellent on the solution."
"Technical support is excellent."
"SD-WAN and IPSec features are valuable to me."
"I'm more inclined towards the conventional firewall. So for me, I'm more geared towards the standard firewall type functionalities as well as the web application firewall because that seems to work fine."
"The port forwarding is good."
"For a small-medium enterprise this solution is easy to manage and operate."
"The product is worth the investment."
"The reporting features are very good."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"Some configuration elements cannot be easily altered once created."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"The scalability could be better."
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"The visibility of the network can be better. The GUI can be improved for better visibility of the network flow. Other solutions have better GUI in terms of network visibility."
"There is a lot of improvement needed with SSL-VPN."
"The way everything is set up could be easier. Currently, people need a lot of experience and knowledge to administer it and to link it to devices."
"Multi-factor authentication would have been a plus in security at the time."
"Sophos VPN connectivity could be improved, as it can be lengthy, and users take longer to connect"
"Sometimes, during part of the configuration, if you don't have a lot of technical knowledge, then you may struggle a bit to configure it."
"I had an issue when I was trying to stop a user from using too much bandwidth while I was using Azure, I was not able to stop them."
"The configuration requires an expert to be set up, so it could be made simpler."
"The solution had a feature to import users from a CSV file. However, the latest version does not have that option."
"Its scalability is not that great."
"I would like to see real-time alerts on traffic insights."
"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."
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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 Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews. Check Point Power-1 [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0. 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 Cyberoam UTM writes "Stable and has a straightforward setup; reporting is fast and easy". Check Point Power-1 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos UTM, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Untangle NG Firewall.
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