We performed a comparison between Hillstone CloudEdge 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 feature of Fortinet FortiGate is load balancing. It can provide central management and VPNA. Additionally, it has enhanced our security environment."
"Advanced routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP, PBR). It gives you a seamless and simple integration into a large network."
"The license management is very valuable. You can get a new license each year, or you can enroll every two to four years. You can get the logs, and you will get the information on the risk in your network and the entire organization. With this information, you can take action on your actives, computers, or devices. You can bring your own device as an SSE."
"Customers are more inclined towards FortiGate because of application control, web filtering, and anti-spam features. The support from the FortiGate team is good, and price-wise, it is affordable."
"The FortiGate controls the user's activities and maximizes my bandwidth use overall."
"The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"The main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of configuration."
"The solution is very easy to download and configure. The initial setup was very easy. The technical support is very good."
"If a computer does get infected the Sophos appliance lets us know via it's Advanced Threat Protection so we can get a much faster response time."
"Efficient and effective - it's easy to separate rules."
"Scaling out cannot be easier, as there are many migration paths."
"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."
"Sophos UTM's best feature is SIM in the cloud, which combines the gateway solution and endpoint solution to send telemetry data to the cloud and provides full contact visibility regarding security."
"It gives us the ability to manage our firewalls from the cloud and deploy a unified configuration onto them. Other competitors like Meraki have that ability, but they fail to optimize it in the way that Sophos has."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the simple-to-use interface."
"Advanced protection (Sophos Sandstorm) - Protects against crypto viruses in real-time."
"In the next release, maybe the documentation on how to use this solution could be improved."
"Quality control on their firmware versions needs improvement. When they introduce new firmware, there tend to be bugs."
"At first glance, the interface for the device is very confusing."
"Scalability is one of the disadvantages. When it comes to scalability, you have to actually change the box. If you want to upgrade it, you need to actually change the existing box and probably you take the system off to other sites."
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"The platform's interface could improve."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"If they could extend their fabric towards other vendor environments for integration, that would be great."
"The solution needs more granular level reporting on system usage."
"The reporting system needs to allow for customizations because many reports do not include details that we expect."
"The pricing is an issue."
"The virus updates will always depend on new viruses that are discovered. Maybe they can send a notification or a reminder for update time."
"I would like them to move from the Classic Load Balancer to the Network Load Balancer. This would make it easier to do certain things with Amazon. They are able to do some enhancements with Network Load Balancer that they are unable to do with Classic Load Balancer."
"We need a better VPN client for the customers."
"It does have built-in policies, which enable you to disable USB devices, etc. It would be nice if they had more policies because there are not that many of them."
"The memory and processing were problematic. The interface could be better."
"In short, the UI and UX are the areas of improvement in Sophos UTM and similar solutions compared to Palo Alto."
Hillstone CloudEdge is ranked 32nd in Firewalls with 1 review while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Hillstone CloudEdge is rated 10.0, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Hillstone CloudEdge writes "A stable solution that is easy to configure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Hillstone CloudEdge 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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