We performed a comparison between Check Point VPN-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 most valuable features are simplicity, management, and that it's constantly evolving."
"Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"The multi-tenancy feature is most valuable. It integrates very well with FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer."
"FortiGate is very simple to manage and easy to use."
"Fortinet FortiGate appears to be scalable."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"It's very easy to set up, it's very easy to make policies and, for an organization, that means you don't need IT expert in firewalls. You just need to have somebody who knows a little bit of IT, and that's it. With other products, you need someone with a "Masters" degree in firewalls."
"The UTM feature is quite good. FortiAP is easy to deploy because both Fortigate and FortiAP are under the same brand. Otherwise, you need to do more work on the configuration."
"Its most outstanding feature is content filtering."
"Technical support has been good."
"VPN clients are easy to use and deploy."
"The product offers fairly good centralized administration and monitoring with decent capabilities that allow the administrator to have relevent control over devices."
"I like it for its simplicity. It is very simple to configure and implement. It is a very good product for medium-sized organizations."
"The most valuable features are its nice interfaces and configuration. The endpoint is also very good."
"The filtering is very easy to do. You can segment and create profiles for usage very easily."
"The most valuable feature I have found to be the reporting function."
"It is very easy to configure and straightforward. The firewall rules are straightforward. It works great out of the box. It has been working as advertised, and I haven't had any issues with it."
"We created and configured a VPN for connecting our remote sites and also to make it more secure and reliable. We also like its two-factor authentication features."
"The user authentication rules are very useful."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is flexibility."
"The main aspect of FortiGate that could be improved is load balancing. Our management team does not want to buy another appliance for only load balancing."
"The web-cache feature which was previously on the FortiGate device, but was deleted with the recent upgrade should be returned. It was a very valuable feature for us."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"Its price could be better."
"We had a minor problem where there was a major system upgrade on the hardware platfrom and the Mac client was not available as soon as it might have been. The PC client was available immediately, but we had to wait a month or so, before there was a mac client. I was slightly irritated that it was not ready on time, but it was eventually resolved."
"Due to its higher cost, Fortinet FortiGate can lead to increased operational expenses."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"Lacks sufficient security options."
"It should have excellent integration with the other security tools."
"Every time we made a change, the policy took about three minutes to apply, and obviously, when there were emergency changes or changes that we needed that were escalated, they were not modified very, very quickly."
"The reporting from the file or reporting from mobile access needs improvement. The solution, in general, could use better reporting tools."
"Pricing is sometimes challenging, although it brings a lot of features."
"Technical support is difficult to access."
"Sophos XG could improve by being more stable and for it to be able to be used for large enterprises."
"There have been some issues when upgrading. For some reason, parts of the configuration become unconfigured, I then have to reconfigure it. I should not need to keep reconfiguring it after upgrades."
"Some businesses require Dynamic IP. This feature would be useful if it worked."
"The two main areas where this product needs improvement are routing and reporting."
"Over the last six months, we have noticed that the hardware is slow, especially the VPN connections."
"The initial setup, specifically when activating the license, is a nightmare and is quite difficult."
"Lacking network access control, user profiling and analytics dashboards."
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Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 4 reviews while Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews. Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Sophos XG is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] writes "Very good IPS, anti-malware, 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 VPN-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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