We performed a comparison between Cisco IOS Security 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."We have been able to offer several services to customers in a single box."
"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."
"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."
"It's a firewall that secures our internal network. I have been using it since 2013, and I find that most of the features are advanced, and very user friendly."
"The pipe filter application is an outstanding feature."
"The reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"We can use our devices to check all of the perimeters. It secures email websites."
"What I have used the most and received the most benefit from is the IPsec technology."
"You can scale it when you need to."
"The VPN was valuable for us because more people are working from home. It has a lot of reporting and easy-to-use management tools."
"The technical support is good."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The most valuable features of Cisco IOS Security are the plenty of functionality it provides, many people are IT certified the usage, and the user interface is good."
"One of the main features is that the hardware is extremely reliable."
"It covers everything we need it to without looking to secondary solutions."
"User and network policies to be managed on a single screen with powerful filtering and search options."
"The best feature is the flexibility the product offers, in terms of remote access. What we had before was a decentralized mechanism in our organization, but after having this product we were able to get the remote locations into the same LAN. We were able to control the bandwidth and were able to take virtual access of those machines and give them the support, as and when required."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is the SD-WAN gateway."
"It is a VPN that serves all your needs as an application firewall."
"The port forwarding is good."
"For a small-medium enterprise this solution is easy to manage and operate."
"The product is easy to maintain."
"We have never had to restart a firewall. The firewalls have all worked perfectly fine."
"A sandbox would be good in order to be able to inspect the emails containing spam and be able to validate the emails that contain malware, prior to delivering to the customer."
"WAN load-balancing could be a lot better at detecting when a link is poor or inconsistent, and not just flat out dead."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a firewall solution and once it's deployed, you can rest assured that your system is secure."
"I would suggest that Fortinet add sandboxing to their solution."
"While FortiGate is cheaper than most other solutions, we're seeing increased license renewal costs. Most of our clients are asking for more significant discounts because the price is going up."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"Technical support is good but the response time could be faster."
"The pricing could always be better."
"I think they should bring back remote VPN for users."
"If they could increase the performance a little better because the device sometimes gets slow."
"Cisco is an expensive firewall, so the pricing can be improved."
"The graphical user interface or the GUI could be better. Beginners can use some devices with the GUI, but some security devices are configured using CLI. It would also be better if it had its own Intrusion Protection Service and Intrusion Detection Service on the server."
"An area for improvement in Cisco IOS Security is the performance because it's not as stable sometimes. There's also some latency in the solution, which could be improved. Cisco IOS Security integrates with other solutions, but you'll encounter many errors after integration, so this is another area for improvement. I'd like to see enhanced performance and a simplified setup in the next version of Cisco IOS Security."
"In the security portfolio from Cisco, the issue is marketing. Cisco is still seen primarily as an enterprise network player rather than being acknowledged as a security vendor."
"We need to pay for the license and it is expensive."
"Cisco IOS Security's monitoring is rather rudimentary and could be improved."
"Network visibility is an area in the solution with shortcomings where improvements can be made."
"We use different workarounds and find different solutions for it, depending on the client's needs. We shouldn't have to, we should just be able to use the product as it comes with Cyberoam, rather than having to revert to other products."
"Smaller CR15 units don’t have a hard disc or built in IView software. These units could do with that feature."
"Hence, it needs to be easier to configure rules using the solution."
"Sometimes, during part of the configuration, if you don't have a lot of technical knowledge, then you may struggle a bit to configure it."
"It isn't missing anything."
"The Traffic Discovery feature should allow administrators to disconnect unnecessary live connections."
"I have problems with the email filtering. Emails pass through without any filtering affecting them. When I get back to them and tell them this is the issue, they check everything and say it is not in their database signature and they have to update it. But you know, by that time, my user has already opened it."
Cisco IOS Security is ranked 22nd in Firewalls with 47 reviews while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews. Cisco IOS Security is rated 8.0, while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco IOS Security writes "User-friendly and excels in documentation, making it easier to resolve issues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Cyberoam UTM writes "Stable and has a straightforward setup; reporting is fast and easy". Cisco IOS Security is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Meraki MX, Fortinet FortiOS, Netgate pfSense and OPNsense, whereas Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos UTM, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Sophos XG. See our Cisco IOS Security vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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