We performed a comparison between Perimeter 81 and Sophos 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."Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use. Anyone can easily maintain it."
"The most valuable feature of FortiGate is FortiView which provides proactive monitoring."
"Its stability is the most valuable."
"It can expand easily."
"The stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"The features that we have found most valuable are the SSL VPN and the User Portal."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and there are several operating systems that can include the hardware capacities. In the newer releases, the resources were more useful because they were included in the operating system."
"The SD-WAN feature is the most valuable. This feature evolved from link load balancing. It has helped us in terms of our uptime and privatizing applications whenever we experience an outage. The SD-WAN feature has been a plus for us. Two-factor authentication has allowed us to add more users in terms of remote working. We have two-factor authentication for remote workers to authenticate them before they get on the network."
"Perimeter 81 is very pretty."
"It helps to quickly get access to the pages I need."
"The ease of use not only translates to quick adoption rates - it also ensures that our employees remain compliant with our cybersecurity protocols, enhancing the overall security posture of our organization."
"It connects quickly and stays connected. The user interface is pretty neat too. The app has in-house support with user guides that give you step-by-step walkthroughs on navigating the app. In addition, there is a live chat feature that offers prompt assistance on the go."
"Their split tunneling feature has been very valuable to our company since implementing the Perimeter 81 solution."
"The feature that I have found to be most valuable is the reputation that the company has regarding privacy. Nowadays, this is critical, especially when you do all of your work online."
"Even after restarting, it tries to quickly reestablish connection which is very helpful."
"The solution provides us with an easy way to configure and join the VPN with Perimeter 81."
"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."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the firewall application and application control."
"It improved bandwidth utilization and provided link load balancing features for internet and intranet lease lines."
"Has great security features and does a good job of protecting the network."
"Stability-wise, I rate this solution a ten out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate this solution a ten out of ten."
"The intrusion prevention is great, and I like dual virus scanning on the network layer because we scan it through Avira and Sophos. Web filtering is also a fantastic option for clients who want to really lock down internet access."
"Sophos UTM's most valuable features are profiling and its simple configuration."
"Efficient and effective - it's easy to separate rules."
"Monitoring and reporting could be better."
"Some of the software stability could improve."
"Fortigate's hardware capacities could be improved."
"One area for improvement is the performance on bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"We had some issues in the beginning while setting it up, but after doing the firmware update, it is working fine."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"I need user-behavior analytics, to find threat scenarios from inside the organization, insider attacks. That would be very helpful for us. In addition, I would like next-generation features for small and medium businesses. These businesses require UTM, all in one product. Fortinet must include it."
"There is a very small amount of downtime."
"Its initial setup process is complex for a hybrid environment."
"I don't know if it is technically feasible, however, if the Desktop App could be used as a Web App or a Chrome Extension it would be very nice."
"In the future, maybe P81 can improve the network traffic balancing and redundancy."
"A Google Chrome extension would be handy instead of logging into the app."
"The overall UI could be improved and updated to bring a simpler feel to the application."
"What would be useful would be a notification/warning that a session is due to timeout after exceeding the default connection limit."
"Offering in-app explanations detailing what each feature does, its benefits and potential use cases can help users better understand and utilize the tool to its full potential."
"It would be nice if it had basic features, such as DLP (Data Loss Prevention)."
"The documentation during the AWS integration was a little fuzzy on getting it to work with how the whole public exposure versus private exposure, then routing some of the traffic."
"The solution could be improved by adding cloud soundboxing."
"There is absolutely no support when using AWS. If you buy the on-premise Sophos solution, you get support."
"It is a little too CPU resource intensive, so we would like to see improvements there."
"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."
"Updates come out agonizingly slowly, a trickle."
"The UI can be cumbersome and, sometimes, features are not where you think they should be."
Perimeter 81 is ranked 11th in Firewalls with 22 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Perimeter 81 is rated 9.2, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Perimeter 81 writes "Great SAML and SCIM support with the ability to deploy site-2-site tunnels with specific IP restrictions". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Perimeter 81 is most compared with Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, Cato SASE Cloud Platform, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Cloudflare Access and Tailscale, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Perimeter 81 vs. Sophos UTM report.
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