We performed a comparison between Comodo Dome Firewall [EOL] and Sophos UTM 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 SD-WAN, application control, IPS control, and FortiSandbox."
"I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable."
"Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"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."
"Easy to implement, and it is also reliable."
"The solution is highly scalable because they have devices that can handle a large amount of traffic."
"Using this product makes the VPN seamless and almost invisible to me in the sense that I don't have to think about it."
"This solution is user-friendly."
"Sophos UTM's best feature is synchronized security."
"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 is that it is easy to administer."
"I like the web filtering options."
"I would recommend UTM over XG because it's easier to manage."
"It is easy to manage."
"The most valuable features of the solution are application filtering and web filtering."
"The three most important features for us are web protection, web server protection, and network protection."
"Its filtering is sometimes too precise or strict. We sometimes have to bypass and authorize some of the sites, but they get blocked. We know that they are trusted sites, but they are blocked, and we don't know why."
"They can do more tests before they release new versions because I would like to be more assured. We had some experiences where they release something new and great, but some of the old features are disabled or they don't work well, which impacts the product satisfaction. The manufacturer should be able to prove that everything works or not only that it might work. This is applicable to most of the other services, software, and hardware companies. They all should work on this. We cannot trust every new release, such as a beta release, on the first day. We wait for some comments on the forums and from other companies that we know. We always wait a few weeks before we use the updated version. They should also extend the VPN client application, especially for Linux versions. Currently, it has an application for Linux devices, but it doesn't work the way we want to connect to the VPN. They use only the old connection, not the new one. They have VPN client applications for Windows and Mac, but they can add more useful features to better manage the devices and monitor the current health of each device. Such features would be helpful for our company."
"They sometimes hide some features and if you want to enable them, you have to go in the CLI, enable the feature and configure it through the CLI. Customers, typically, like everything to be done by the GUI."
"The support structure needs to be improved because every time we contact them, there is a delay in the response."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"Due to its higher cost, Fortinet FortiGate can lead to increased operational expenses."
"In the next release, maybe the documentation on how to use this solution could be improved."
"For the migration, everyone has a firewall in use and I am selling Fortinet. Typically, I am replacing another firewall. Previously, there was a tool available to convert configurations from one firewall, such as Palo Alto, to Fortinet, but this tool is no longer free. If it could be made free again, it would be very beneficial."
"I haven't seen any feature that will allow me direct authentication for a VPN solution."
"The solution could be improved by adding cloud soundboxing."
"I would like some features that are available in other brands. For example, I sometimes a person is using too much bandwidth, and it isn't easy to find this information in Sophos. Also, we have to switch connections manually when we are using a VPN and lose the MPLS connection. It isn't automatic."
"Needs to improve the certificate management (ex. Let's Encrypt support)."
"Email spam filtering only works if you have an on-prem Exchange server. It doesn't interface with Office 365 like the XG model. That would be one feature that they could improve. They're not going to do it because they're trying to push us all to XG."
"The support could be better."
"The logs are not clear, which means that you need an additional piece of software in order to read them clearly."
"Sophos UTM sometimes falls short in high-availability environments. They used to launch firmware that didn't work very well in a high-availability environment."
"The classification segregation of applications lacks sufficient definition."
Earn 20 points
Comodo Dome Firewall [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Comodo Dome Firewall [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Comodo Dome Firewall [EOL] writes "User-Friendly, improves security, and gives me more control over my VoIP". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Comodo Dome Firewall [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall.
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