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."It is user friendly, and has all the features you need."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a scalable solution."
"The simplicity of the product is great. It's very easy to use, which is a compliment we get all the time in terms of feedback."
"The FortiGate controls the user's activities and maximizes my bandwidth use overall."
"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."
"The reporting and monitoring are very good."
"Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtering testing applications, web filtering, and the new VPN."
"We chose Cisco because it had the full package that we were looking for."
"We can easily track unauthorized users and see where traffic is going."
"Provides good integrations and reporting."
"Cisco ASA provides us with very good application visibility and control."
"They wanted to leverage something which is equivalent that can give them the next gen features like application awareness and intrusion protection. So that is a major reason they were looking forward to this. The original ASA firewall did not have these features. This was the major reason the customer moved on to Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD). Now they can go ahead and leverage those functionalities."
"We moved from a legacy firewall to the ASA with FirePOWER, increasing our Internet Edge defense dramatically."
"The monitoring dashboard is valuable to us for troubleshooting."
"It is pretty stable. I haven't seen many issues during the past four years."
"The performance has been good overall."
"Our customers find it economical and offers good security. These two features are key. Ease of installation and implementation are also key factors."
"The dashboard is very good-looking and offers maximum features. If a customer's website has a problem, we can guide them over the phone because they can easily find the specific option on the dashboard. That's why we suggest buying Sophos."
"I believe it's the advanced security software that offers SMPP protection for the agent."
"The solution is excellent for web and application filtering and remote access with the VPN."
"The main features I have found best are the load balancer and ease of use."
"The tool is stable."
"The most valuable features are the firewall section, the VPN, and how you control live users."
"Fortinet needs to overhaul its documentation."
"FortiGate should have a better way of detecting and managing the system memory because otherwise if the memory is too low, a system restart is required."
"Compared to some other products, the DLP is not at par for the moment."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"The solution could be more evenly structured."
"Technical support is good but the response time could be faster."
"The firewall engine is not so strong as of now, in my opinion... My second concern is that, while they have Zero-day vulnerability and anti-malware features, the threat engine needs to be strengthened, its efficiency can be increased."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"One of my colleagues is using the firewall as an IPS, but he is worried about Firepower's performance... With the 10 Gb devices, when it gets to 5 Gbps, the CPU usage goes up a lot and he cannot manage the IPS."
"The content filtering on an application level is not as good as other solutions such as Palo Alto."
"Cisco Firepower NGFW Firewall can be more secure."
"The cost is very high. Most organizations cannot afford it."
"Most of the time, when I try to run Java, it is not compatible with ASA's current operating systems."
"The reporting and other features are nice, but there is an issue with applying the configuration. That part needs some improvement."
"The configuration is an area that needs improvement."
"Also, they have a Firepower source file that I can work on the ASA device and on Firepower devices. A problem here lies in the way that you manage these devices. Some devices do not support the FMC, and some devices have to be managed through ASDM, and others have to be managed through FMC."
"There are some issues with logs and report limitations."
"Once in a while, an unwanted email will slip in. You have to set your parameters to avoid that happening, but once in a while, an email has slipped past firewall. Once you update the firmware, you notice that it doesn't happen. If an email slips in, I get a little bit worried. I do get the report, but you just don't want that situation happening in the first place."
"On-box sandstorm should be available. As of now, it is from their cloud."
"The product is at its end-of-life. There is nothing to improve as it will be discontinued."
"The product had a hang issue. We needed to reboot, recreate the image, and reconfigure the previous image because the product hanged frequently."
"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."
"I would like to see real-time alerts on traffic insights."
"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."
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, Sophos XG and Untangle NG Firewall. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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