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."Reliability is the best feature. We faced some issues when we were setting it up, but the service, portal, and administration are good."
"The secure web gateway module and the application control module are valuable. HA operations are very easy."
"Their interface is very easy to use, it is without bugs."
"The most valuable feature is the policy routing and application control."
"The most important feature, normally for small business customers, is link load balancing."
"The most important features with FortiGate are the web filter and application controls. We can control our internet usage and use the web filter for application purposes."
"The most valuable features are simplicity, management, and that it's constantly evolving."
"I am "headache free" that I don't have to categorize all the websites and that security has been pre categorized by the people, and that the services are getting updated. At least one part of my problem is over."
"The VPN allows users to connect remotely and securely."
"We've deployed quite a number for our users and our customers, and the feedback is quite positive in terms of management and also administration."
"Sophos XG has cybersecurity. It integrates with the antivirus software."
"The solution is scalable."
"We have found that the simplicity of the XG 210 is its most valuable feature."
"It has a very friendly interface like the Cyberoam iNG units, it has customizable policies, it has proper templates that you can even modify, and you can customize the rules, down to each single user."
"The most valuable feature is that it scans all of the data for any kind of malware."
"The cloud-based interface makes it easy to manage."
"What I like about his program, is that it is easy to use and easy to manage."
"The debugging and troubleshooting has room for improvement."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"There is one big configuration file with no separations for the unique VDOMs. Maybe they could separate individual VDOM configuration files with the root VDOM configuration file referencing the individual VDOM config files."
"I think they need to improve more in order to be a competitor with the leaders of the field."
"We had some issues in the beginning while setting it up, but after doing the firmware update, it is working fine."
"Fortinet FortiGate should improve the VPN tokens."
"The feature which gives us a lot of pain is ASIC architecture."
"Lacks training for new features."
"Multi-factor authentication would have been a plus in security at the time."
"Inability to investigate incidents, there is no tracking."
"I wish to see an antivirus feature added to the solution."
"They made some changes to the firmware update sometime last year, which moved some of the policies from where they were before. Some of the policies, such as NAS policies, were separated, which made it a bit hard for people to trace the policies they had configured."
"The reporting could be improved in this solution by adding more details."
"The security of Sophos XG could be improved."
"The solution could improve by having better security."
"Recently, I've had a problem with updating things."
"Since Sophos took over Cyberoam, the online technical library and support library have become super messy. To get a piece of information is becoming a nightmare. They need to reorganize the online technical support and technical library."
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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 191 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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