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."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."
"The technical support in our region is excellent."
"The next-gen features, the unified threat management capabilities are something that just about everybody is interested in at this point."
"The signature database and zero-day detection are Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features."
"The ease of setting the solution up is a valuable aspect for us."
"It's very easy to configure."
"I appreciate FortiGate's flexibility, which allows for centralized management through FortiManager."
"The security on offer is very good."
"It works well with a highly-active cluster."
"We did not have issues with scalabiliy."
"It does not take much effort or thinking to understand how it works."
"Sophos UTM has improved the porting section. It has improved security by seeing the gaps. For example, when you discover that an entry has been using a certain application, with Sophos UTM acting as a Layer 7 firewall, you can block the application, not the port."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the simple-to-use interface."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The three most important features for us are web protection, web server protection, and network protection."
"Scaling out cannot be easier, as there are many migration paths."
"It helped to connect our satellite offices to the main Amazon infrastructure in a circular way."
"The solution could be more secure and stable."
"Cisco Meraki products are rising very quickly in the cloud and the connected era. Meraki products offer much better ROI, upgradability, and manageability."
"If I had any criticism that I would give FortiGate, it would be that they need to stop changing their logging format. Every time we do a firmware upgrade, it is a massive issue on the SIM. Parsers have to be rebuilt. Even the FortiGate guys came in and said that they don't play well in the sandbox."
"Sometimes you do need to know some CLI commands, so it's a bit harder for technicians or new people that don't know it."
"The performance could be a bit better. Right now, I find it to be lacking. Having good performance is very important for our work."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"Its reporting and pricing need improvement."
"The inability to scale the FortiAnalyzer to match our growth necessitates the purchase of new hardware."
"After some experience with the solution, we had to do some redesign, but generally, we were happy with the product."
"The reporting could be a lot better."
"The interface configuration could be improved."
"I would like this solution to support ICAP. Also, they no longer support on-premises management, and are forcing clients to use centralized management via the cloud, which I don't agree with."
"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 UI can be cumbersome and, sometimes, features are not where you think they should be."
"Sophos UTM could improve the way the configuration has to be done. I have to do the configuration through the command line interface but if it could be done through the graphical user interface it would be much better."
"Sophos UTM could be simplified, and they can improve on the many other features, like SD-WAN and load balancing. Sophos UTM is missing a few features that their competitors have. For example, if you have multiple branches you would like to connect, the load balancing features aren't available on multilink. If we create a VPM for multiple LAN links, we cannot load balance the traffic."
"The classification segregation of applications lacks sufficient definition."
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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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