pfSense vs Sophos XG
We performed a comparison between pfSense vs Sophos XG based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
"It is a safe product."
"I like that they have given me a solution at a fair price."
"FortiGate improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"The reporting and monitoring are very good."
"We are using the FortiGate 100D series. VPN, firewall, anti-malware, OTM, and intrusion prevention are useful features."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a scalable solution."
"Fortinet FortiGate's reliability is valuable."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use."
"Easy to deploy and easy to use."
"The ability to create a VPN allows me to monitor branch offices from a central location."
"It is a better firewall than others and it has better features."
"I have found pfSense to be stable."
"Improved service performance and availability through redundancy."
"Stability has been excellent. We have experienced no issues; it never fails."
"The interface is straightforward and easy to use."
"Easy to deploy and easy to use."
"The solution seems to be very easy to use."
"Sophos is a comrehensive solution which allows me to configure all the attendant products, such as Sophos' firewall, Endpoint and Encryption features."
"The product’s most valuable feature is the user management system."
"Price-wise the solution offers acceptable rates. You can find cheaper solutions on the market but when you go cheaper you have fewer features. Today, based on iQuate market the price is very reasonable and affordable, and it's good if you get a good discount. Discounts can be offered by the vendor. If it's a competitive upgrade which means the customer is upgrading from another vendor, Sophos provides extra discount so they can win the deal. In general, it is a good price."
"Great reporting feature and great customer support."
"The two most valuable feature of Sophos XG is, one the option to filter according to different applications and two, the integration with the Active Directory."
"The features that I have found most valuable are first the Web Filter and the Web Application Firewall SD-Wan on Version 18. Additionally, RED Tunnels allows a Sophos vital to speak to another Sophos vital in headquarters."
"The stability has been excellent."
"While FortiGate is cheaper than most other solutions, we're seeing increased license renewal costs. Most of our clients are asking for more significant discounts because the price is going up."
"Some features of Fortinet FortiGate are actually fee enabled that are inconvenient for deploying in production. Other issues relate to isolation with Cisco products and your server."
"A couple of things I've seen that need improvement, especially in terms of a hard coding. The driver-level active moment really is out-of-the-box and we have to have contact the customer support and sometimes it is difficult to resolve."
"Currently, without the additional reporting module, we only have access to basic reporting."
"Compared to some other products, the DLP is not at par for the moment."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more storage in the hardware for log data."
"Reporting is limited to providing an external appliance for improving the reporting capabilities of the FortiAnalyzer. It does not offer a central management and is also sold separably as an appliance."
"Ultimately, we'd like something stronger, and something that can handle threats better in real-time."
"The Netgate forums and community don’t provide extensive discussions and topics related to every pfSense service."
"The integration could be improved."
"I would like to see different graphs available in the reporting."
"The product must provide integration with other solutions."
"The solution’s interface must be improved."
"It would be great to add more to security."
"We would like to see ready-made profiles to cover most users' needs."
"We are facing some problems on this firmware version, version 18, that require improvement. We want to improve the email security because it doesn't give proper security with the data protection. Also, our clients are facing some problems where most of the sites which they're accessing are getting blocked. I want to improve those sites, that email security, and the data protection on the Firmware version 18."
"I'd like to see better reporting. While the logs are great, the reports are not."
"The solution should have the ability to be up to date with the most recent threats."
"We recently did an upgrade on the Sophos XG firmware and we were surprised that after the upgrade, the automatic switch actually we were using did not work anymore."
"The number of ports, especially on the entry-level appliances, should be increased."
"Even though things work on the back end, we have encountered bugs in the solution."
"The reaction time of the GUI is terrible when compared to other manufacturers."
"Support for this product is something that is really important, and it needs to improve."
Netgate pfSense is ranked 1st in Firewalls with 128 reviews while Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 189 reviews. Netgate pfSense is rated 8.6, while Sophos XG is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Netgate pfSense writes "User-friendly, easy to manage the firewall, rule-wise and interface-wise". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos XG writes "Easy to use and deploy with an improved pricing structure in place". Netgate pfSense is most compared with OPNsense, Sophos UTM, Cisco Secure Firewall, KerioControl and Untangle NG Firewall, whereas Sophos XG is most compared with OPNsense, Sophos XGS, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, SonicWall TZ and Meraki MX. See our Netgate pfSense vs. Sophos XG report.
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