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."The most valuable features are that it is very simple to configure and to manage."
"The network security and cloud security are most valuable."
"I think that the UTM features are the most value, as it truly protects my infrastructure."
"The solution is scalable."
"Fortinet FortiGate protects against internet-based threats, both internal and external. It is scalable, stable, easy to use, and easy to install."
"We have found it to be very reliable and that's why our teams and various users in our company use it as our main firewall every day."
"The web filtering feature and the intrusion protection system are the most valuable. It is a resilient appliance. I never had an issue with it in terms of any security breaches."
"The web filtering facility and application control are the most valuable features from the point of view of our clients. The VPN feature is also quite popular amongst our clients. Two-factor authentication is one of the good features in Fortinet. These features are important for the current scenario of security. Security has become a necessity nowadays. With cyber-attacks becoming more common, protecting an organization's data is one of the major tasks. It is also very stable and scalable, and it is very straightforward to configure. Their technical support is also good."
"The VPN allows users to connect remotely and securely."
"The isolation of infected machines is a big feature. Also, the ability to detect external sources that change files on a file server is really big."
"The most valuable feature is ransomware protection."
"We've found the technical support to be helpful."
"The implementation with the AWS environment was good."
"It does not take much effort or thinking to understand how it works."
"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."
"It gives us the ability to manage our firewalls from the cloud and deploy a unified configuration onto them. Other competitors like Meraki have that ability, but they fail to optimize it in the way that Sophos has."
"Scaling out cannot be easier, as there are many migration paths."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"The search tool needs improvement. It's very difficult to search for policies right now."
"The solution could be more user friendly."
"There could be more integration between the logging and analytical platforms to make it more seamless and integrated."
"It is quite new for us, and we need to go more in-depth into the monitoring tools. It provides different features that we need to do what we want. So far, it is okay for us. In terms of improvement, in the future, they can provide a faster implementation of features. Some of the features are first available in other solutions. Fortinet sometimes takes a little bit longer than other solutions, such as Check Point, to implement new features."
"One area for improvement is the performance on bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"The reports are very basic."
"The solution could have licensing fees reduced in the future."
"Multi-factor authentication would have been a plus in security at the time."
"The solution's technical support for India needs to be improved."
"The solution needs better integration with captive portals and XGs."
"We'd like to see them offer their services on mobile devices like tablets. I'm not sure if that's an option or not."
"The initial setup may be difficult for those not familiar with the product."
"The lack of import/export functions for network and service options drives me mad."
"Sophos customer support could use some improvement."
"The application control is really bad. It needs a lot of enhancements. The traffic shaping and bandwidth control, and application control need a lot of work."
"It does have built-in policies, which enable you to disable USB devices, etc. It would be nice if they had more policies because there are not that many of them."
Earn 20 points
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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