We performed a comparison between Check Point UTM-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 user interface (UI) is very, very good."
"Their reliability and their policy of pre-shipping replacements when a unit has failed."
"It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"Mainly the FortiGate reporting system is very good. It guides us through all the expectations of security. Fortinet provides us all that we need for security. Also, Fortinet FortiGate is a next-generation firewall. It is much more advanced than others."
"FortiGate SD-WAN facilitated a smooth transition for our customers between their two internet service providers, ensuring uninterrupted connectivity without any downtime."
"The user interface is relatively easy. The devices are easy to deploy and figure out when you have experience with other security appliances."
"The response is very quick and they can visually resolve our problems in a short period."
"The solution is very robust."
"It safeguards against cyber attacks."
"The UTM platform has been the most valuable."
"It provides visibility and drives organizational security."
"Firewalls help us a lot in controlling traffic on our network and preventing unauthorized access."
"The filtering was very good."
"The databases and its signatures are its most important features."
"The most valuable feature for us was to implement negligent functionality, to direct functionality to viewer control and application control so we could disconnect, and at the same time, we installed checkpoints. We disconnected our proxy."
"The simplicity and timely updates."
"Good security and a good interface."
"The initial setup is very straightforward and the solution is extremely user-friendly."
"Excellent product, meets most of the security needs of companies of various sizes. You can buy it without fear."
"The most valuable is the synchronized security between Sophos XG and Sophos endpoint because it provides a lot of visibility about unknown applications. The endpoint shares the information of unknown applications, and you can learn about those applications and create policies to allow or block those applications."
"The firewall functionality and unified threat management are the most useful features."
"The VPN is easy and has good logging, monitoring and notifications."
"In my experience, the solution was easy to use, has lots of features, and is easy to configure."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve if it had a cloud-managed solution."
"They have to just improve its performance when we enable all UTM features. When you enable all the features, the performance of FortiGate, as well as of Sophos and SonicWall, goes down."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"I don't really have anything negative to say as far as Fortinet firewalls are concerned. If anything, they can support a user a little bit better. They can stop being so time-sensitive about how much time the support call has taken, and they can help you do it yourself."
"Their software support needs improvement. I would prefer to have better support for bug fixes. Sometimes, we open a ticket, and it is very difficult to get a solution. Specifically, we are not at all happy with their support for load balancing."
"In the future, I would like to see improvements made to cloud-based management."
"It can be a little bit more user-friendly in terms of policy definition and implementation. It seems a little bit complicated, and it could be simplified."
"The solution could be more user friendly."
"As we don't have a representative of Check Point in Mozambique, this makes it very difficult when we have some issues to resolve."
"Specifically on the user experience, sometimes the set up of things, such as the VPN SSL, takes a lot of time to load and a lot of time to get up and running on every session."
"Technical support was very bad because the supplier who sold it to us, wasn't very supportive, and he wouldn't giving us direct links to the OEM."
"The solution could be improved if there was a better way to report. The reporting functionality is not really good. Even though it's not the major function. Maybe adding a way to make a custom report."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"Some features that could be improved are advanced threat protection, sandboxing, and vulnerability management."
"I am not able to see a demo."
"While the technical support is good, the Indian level technical support could use an upgrade."
"SD-WAN can be improved."
"The support from the vendor needs to be improved."
"The training manual provided to users lacks proper guidance on configuration procedures."
"Scalability could be improved. It could be better."
"XG is at its end of life. People are moving to XGS."
"All of the options should be available when I renew my subscription for the year. As it is now, there are some limitations."
"Recently, I've had a problem with updating things."
"Sometimes when you roll out a new firmware, you find that the rules you already have in place are broken, so it's difficult to migrate to a new firmware. That's the only downside I've experienced in Sophos."
Earn 20 points
Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 19 reviews while Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews. Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] is rated 8.2, while Sophos XG is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] writes "Great firewalls, VPN, and Intrusion prevention 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 UTM-1 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Sophos XG is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS, SonicWall TZ and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls.
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