We performed a comparison between SonicWall TZ and Sophos Cyberoam 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's reliability is valuable."
"Using this product makes the VPN seamless and almost invisible to me in the sense that I don't have to think about it."
"It has improved our security capabilities."
"It's a user-friendly firewall. Most of the tasks are very simple. It's simple to configure and troubleshoot this firewall."
"The features that prevent internet connections, the filtering are the most valuable because we did not have any internet protection before."
"A strong point of FortiGate is that the graphical interface is complete and easy to use, especially if we think there is a list of operations that we are able to perform inside."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the analytics."
"One of the valuable features is a standardized OS."
"Technical support is good."
"SonicWall TZ is stable."
"I like the firewall product, the security server, and the content filter."
"The solution's VPN is very good for stability and detecting threats."
"We are able to block whatever we want to block by using this product. It provides all required security features, such as content filtering, VPN, in one box. Before switching to SonicWall, we had specified all required features."
"SonicWall TZ is very user-friendly and has network MAC binding. Additionally, the firewall works well."
"The most valuable features are security and technical support."
"The VPN is quite useful for us, as well as the ATP."
"I found that the best feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is reporting. Its reporting feature is excellent, fast, and easy to prep and launch."
"The solution works perfectly without any users."
"Web Filtering and Application Filtering saves a lot of my bandwidth and improves the user's productivity."
"I'm more inclined towards the conventional firewall. So for me, I'm more geared towards the standard firewall type functionalities as well as the web application firewall because that seems to work fine."
"The VPN is excellent on the solution."
"Web and content filtering are valuable in preventing people from abusing the network and pushing up the bandwidth price."
"The reporting features are very good."
"Cyberoam UTM's most valuable feature is that it can be configured any way you like."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the protection, it did not prevent us from being attacked. Additionally, Fortinet FortiGate could provide more features for WAF devices. I should not have to purchase two solutions, it would be a benefit to combine these features into one solution."
"I think the only issue that needs improvement is the interface."
"Quality control on their firmware versions needs improvement. When they introduce new firmware, there tend to be bugs."
"It claims it does DLP, but the degree and level of controls are very basic."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"The user interface could be improved to make it less confusing and easier to set up."
"In the future, I would like to see improvements made to cloud-based management."
"It could probably be more user-friendly, and it could be more scalable with releases and subscriptions."
"The solution has lost the trust of its customers because of moving from one company to another."
"If the operation increases and the bandwidth consumption increases, it does not perform as per the expectations."
"SonicWall TZ can improve the UI application and when you create any net policies or any new policy, it will not sync or work properly."
"The reporting analytics could be improved, it is very unstable."
"We would like to improve the rules configuration in SonicWall TZ. Sometimes the rules don't work."
"The dashboard needs to be improved."
"The stability could be a lot better."
"The implementation policy needs improvment."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM has room for improvement in specific rules-based objects and redesign. The solution also needs to improve in adding rules and policies, including renewing and finding policies."
"The price is obviously a more sensitive area to focus on."
"I would say there's room for improvement in terms of the GUI. Because it is better than some of the other standard firewalls. They have the drag and drop features."
"There are some issues with logs and report limitations."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could have a more advanced reporting function."
"When it comes to web filtering and application filtering, it does not contain enough signatures to determine all of the sites that need to be blocked."
"The solution should improve its scalability because it cannot support enterprise networks."
SonicWall TZ is ranked 11th in Firewalls with 19 reviews while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 27 reviews. SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0, while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of SonicWall TZ writes "Highly acceptable on a small scale, straightforward out the box installation, with a good price point". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Cyberoam UTM writes "A versatile solution that comes with valuable security features like geofencing and traffic shaping". SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos UTM, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Sophos XG. See our SonicWall TZ vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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