We performed a comparison between McAfee StoneGate [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."Security management tool that's easy to integrate and easy to work with. No issues found with its stability and scalability."
"The dashboard I have found the most valuable in Fortinet FortiGate."
"The most valuable feature is the VDOM, which allows the customer to have multiple firewalls in a single campus."
"Some of the key features of the solution is that it has good reporting, you can receive many details from the connection, for example, clients and website information."
"Good performance, stability, and virtual domain ability."
"The web filtering feature and the intrusion protection system are the most valuable. It is a resilient appliance. I never had an issue with it in terms of any security breaches."
"We use the filtering feature the most. It has filtering and inbuilt securities. We can create customized rules to define which users can access a particular type of site. We can create policies inside the firewall."
"We can use our devices to check all of the perimeters. It secures email websites."
"We did not have issues with scalabiliy."
"It works well with a highly-active cluster."
"Sophos is a unified solution. We have anti-virus protection, firewall rules, knotting, and DACC all in one box."
"An easy solution to learn because the graphics are very intuitive."
"It is a very good product. The threat monitoring process is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is the price. I've been requesting prices all over these years between different solutions like Fortinet, Palo Alto, and Check Point and Sophos has been the cheapest and the best of all of them that I have tried. I have been working with Fortinet, it's a fact that the price is surprisingly better."
"The solution can scale."
"The most valuable features of the solution are application filtering and web filtering."
"It has made our organization more secure, because we are using a VPN. We are not accessing services directly. It allows us to segregate some of the traffic for individuals which may be more of a developer role rather than an operational role needing access to developer resources, but not necessarily production operational resources."
"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."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"The main aspect of FortiGate that could be improved is load balancing. Our management team does not want to buy another appliance for only load balancing."
"They've become quite expensive."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"It is very expensive, and their support is not very good. I hope that their technical support will be better in the future."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"WAN load-balancing could be a lot better at detecting when a link is poor or inconsistent, and not just flat out dead."
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"After some experience with the solution, we had to do some redesign, but generally, we were happy with the product."
"Sophos UTM's firewall is a bit weak, and some of its features lack depth compared to other products like F5."
"The scalability of the product is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Needs to improve the certificate management (ex. Let's Encrypt support)."
"Sophos UTM's internet security could be better."
"Last year, Sophos had some major internal management changes that negatively impacted their support."
"The product could be simplified and made more self-explanatory."
"We would like to have unique viewable IDs for rules and in the packet filter logfile, for easier debugging of old log files."
"Stay away from the wireless models, since you cannot put them in HA. They start to give you some weird issues once you start getting into multiple SSIDs and networks."
Earn 20 points
McAfee StoneGate [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. McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is rated 7.0, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of McAfee StoneGate [EOL] writes "The HA cluster had issues during deployment, but the solution gives us better application control than with our previous solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". McAfee StoneGate [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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