We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall and Sophos Cyberoam UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the different types of profiling. It has been the most effective for me. The WAF and the antivirus profile are the most effective in network protection."
"One of the nice things about FortiGate is that it can be deployed on the cloud or on-premises. You can actually do both. That's the biggest reason why I stick with this solution as opposed to something like Cisco Meraki. Another nice thing is that I can log directly into a FortiGate or get to it through their FortiCloud access products. They're pretty reliable and consistent. One of the reasons why I started using the product was their single pane of management. I can deploy their line of firewalls in conjunction with their switching and access points, and I can manage the entire network from one interface. I don't have to log into one interface for the firewall, another one for the access points, and another one for the switches. These firewalls have access point controller functionality built right into the system, so I don't even have to purchase additional devices to manage them."
"The main reason why I purchased the particular unit was that it had good reviews and what other people were saying as far as its completeness and its leading capabilities in terms of endpoint security was very good."
"Layer-3 firewall and routing are the most valuable features."
"Some of the valuable features are the firewall, IPS, web filter, and gateway capabilities. Additionally, it is easy to use and flexible."
"It has improved our organization with control data."
"The pricing is great and very reasonable."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use."
"The best solutions for our company are those we have yet to implement so it will be even better in the future for us than it already is."
"The most important point is the detection engine which is now part of the next-generation firewalls and which is supported by Cisco Talos."
"You do not have to do everything through a command line which makes it a lot easier to apply rules."
"The greatest benefit for the organization is the confidence that we are secured."
"The high-availability and remote VPN features are most valuable."
"Among the top features are integrated threat defence and the fact that each virtual appliance is separate so you get great granular control."
"Its in-depth monitoring and analysis help us to make better decisions and policies."
"I have not contacted technical support. There is a lot of information on the internet for troubleshooting. All you need to do is use a search engine and you will find the information you are looking for easily."
"The most valuable features are the firewall section, the VPN, and how you control live users."
"In some circumstances, the malware functionality is the most important feature, and in other cases, some other features."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is a very strong product with good support."
"The firewall feature has different branches, such as extended firewalls."
"The solution is excellent for web and application filtering and remote access with the VPN."
"Technical support is excellent."
"I found that the best feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is reporting. Its reporting feature is excellent, fast, and easy to prep and launch."
"There are plenty of features that are valuable in the Sophos Cyberoam UTM. We use all the features, such as email Security, firewall rules, web server security, web devices, web protection."
"The UTM filtering needs improvement."
"They are doing good, but they can improve the distributor assignment. The availability of the product and the timeline of delivery are the main things. The distribution should be swift, and the distributor should not reach out to end customers directly. They should work as a distributor. There should also be one more local distributor. Currently, there is only one distributor in Pakistan, and the rest of them are in UAE. It is difficult to work with only one distributor. Sometimes, you don't get along with the same distributor, and that's why they should have one more distributor. Their licensing should also be improved. The activation or renewal of the product should be done from the date of renewal, not from the date on which the license expired."
"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."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"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."
"A lack of integration between our data centers."
"I would like to see improvements in the product's application rules."
"It is confusing to have two management interfaces, e.g., ASDM and Firepower Management Center."
"The reporting and other features are nice, but there is an issue with applying the configuration. That part needs some improvement."
"Cisco Secure Firewall’s customer support could be improved."
"I have used Fortinet, Palo Alto, and Check Point previously and I prefer the process of everything working together."
"We had an event recently where we had inbound traffic for SIP and we experienced an attack against our SIP endpoint, such that they were able to successfully make calls out... Both CTR, which is gathering data from multiple solutions that the vendor provides, as well as the FMC events connection, did not show any of those connections because there was not a NAT inbound which said either allow it or deny it."
"There's a little bit of a disconnect between Firepower’s management and the rest of the products, like DNA and Prime. The solution should have fewer admin portals for network, security, and firewalls."
"The solution is overcomplicated in some senses. Simplifying it would be an improvement."
"Deploying configurations takes longer than it should."
"The VPN is an area that can be improved."
"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."
"Hence, it needs to be easier to configure rules using the solution."
"The reporting part could be more user-friendly for troubleshooting and identifying network issues. It should be more easy for a normal user to identify the problem in their network."
"Sometimes, users are timed out intermittently."
"Maybe network traffic analysis for malware and malicious behavior."
"Network visibility is an area in the solution with shortcomings where improvements can be made."
"I don't know whether this will be included in an upgrade, but I would like to get the user utility, like seeing where the users are using more of the data."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall writes "Highlights and helps us catch Zero-day vulnerabilities traveling across our network". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Cyberoam UTM writes "Stable and has a straightforward setup; reporting is fast and easy". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos UTM, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Untangle NG Firewall and Sophos XG. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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