We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall and Sophos 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 wireless control is helpful."
"The integration with Active Directory is one of the good features. Most of the customers are now looking for the Single Sign-on feature. So, being able to integrate Active Directory with the firewall is useful. It is also easy."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the rules and quality of service."
"From the firewall perspective, the rules and policies are very sufficient and easy to use."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use."
"What's most important is the ease of use."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The architecture of FTD is great because it has an in-depth coverage and because it uses the AVC, (Application, Visibility, and Control) and also rate limits. Also, the architecture of fast paths is great."
"The user interface, the UI, is excellent on the solution."
"Cisco Secure Firewall improved our organization. We have it in every one of our French offices."
"One of the most valuable features of Firepower 7.0 is the "live log" type feature called Unified Event Viewer. That view has been really good in helping me get to data faster, decreasing the amount of time it takes to find information, and allowing me to fix problems faster. I've found that to be incredibly valuable because it's a lot easier to get to some points of data now."
"I haven't had any major problems so I haven't had to open a ticket with technical support."
"The feature set is fine and is rarely a problem."
"The most valuable feature is zone segmentation, which we utilize through the Firepower management console."
"With over 150 firewalls in our portal, management and monitoring have never been easier."
"The solution is scalable."
"I would recommend UTM over XG because it's easier to manage."
"It is not an easy task to protect your web servers from the big bad internet. The Web Server Protection in this solution does it elegantly and, if configured correctly, even hides the server's base system from prying eyes."
"It has helped by identifying threats within the company. If there are computers or servers that are compromised, then we are able to identify them right away in the system."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the simple-to-use interface."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"It does not take much effort or thinking to understand how it works."
"The feedback that I have received is that the performance could be better, and the user experience is not as good compared to a previous solution we used. It could be more user-friendly. Of course, it still works fine for our operations."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a firewall solution and once it's deployed, you can rest assured that your system is secure."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"The pricing could always be better."
"There were quite a few problems with the stability of the system."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"Technical support is good but the response time could be faster."
"These firewalls are not for beginners."
"The pricing is a bit high."
"The visibility for VPN is one big part. The policy administration could be improved in terms of customizations and flexibility for changing it to our needs."
"With regards to stability, we had a critical bug come out during our evaluation... not good."
"Cisco Secure Firewall's integration with cloud providers has room for improvement. We could do more in terms of integration, for example, if we had a tag on an instance."
"I wouldn't give them a ten. Nobody is perfect. I'll give them a nine because they help me with any issues I've had."
"One area where the ASA could be improved is that it doesn't have AMP. When you get an ASA with the Firepower model, ASA with FTD, then you have advanced malware protection."
"Tech support could not answer all of our questions. I had to do research on the web to solve my issues."
"The scalability of the product is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Sophos UTM could be simplified, and they can improve on the many other features, like SD-WAN and load balancing. Sophos UTM is missing a few features that their competitors have. For example, if you have multiple branches you would like to connect, the load balancing features aren't available on multilink. If we create a VPM for multiple LAN links, we cannot load balance the traffic."
"In short, the UI and UX are the areas of improvement in Sophos UTM and similar solutions compared to Palo Alto."
"The solution's technical support for India needs to be improved."
"It's stable, but the reaction time of the GUI is terrible."
"The solution could be improved by adding cloud soundboxing."
"The memory and processing were problematic. The interface could be better."
"Anti-phishing functionality should be improved."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. 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 UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and SonicWall NSa, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Untangle NG Firewall. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Sophos UTM report.
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