We performed a comparison between Sophos UTM and Zscaler Cloud Firewall 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."Unified Threat Management (UTM) features."
"The main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"The most valuable feature is the FortiManager for centralized management."
"It is user friendly, and has all the features you need."
"I only deal with it from a security analyst's point of view. I don't really get into the features of the actual FortiGate. From the security point of view, it works, and it does its job."
"I like several features that this product has, such as antivirus and internet navigation inspection. It is also simple to use."
"It's great for capturing the traffic and troubleshooting it."
"The stability of Sophos UTM is very good. The solution has been stable since Sophos took over Cyberoam which was the original company providing this solution."
"The features that I've known to be most valuable are both the web security features as well as the web firewall capabilities. As a partner of Sophos firewall, we have some clients and they are using Sophos firewall UTM and we are using it as well."
"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."
"They are all good, but most-used are Network Protection and Web Filtering."
"It's a stable solution."
"The isolation of infected machines is a big feature. Also, the ability to detect external sources that change files on a file server is really big."
"Scaling out cannot be easier, as there are many migration paths."
"The three most important features for us are web protection, web server protection, and network protection."
"The visibility and log availability offered are highly valued for troubleshooting purposes, and this is a key factor driving customer interest in the firewall module."
"The scalability is okay. We have around 2200 people using this solution."
"The solution is scalable."
"It helps a lot of companies to reduce their downtime. Also, It helps businesses in terms of being secured and protected from any threats."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Zscaler Cloud Firewall understands the applications in the current generation and adapts to the present generation cloud applications."
"Most of the features that Zscaler has to offer, we will deploy."
"It is a stable solution."
"There are just some services that aren't available. For example, the Ethernet or point-to-point protocols. They could add these services to their product offering - especially services for ISPs."
"I would like to see more advanced developments of a wireless controller in the future."
"I think the only issue that needs improvement is the interface."
"Currently, FortiGate is providing SSL VPN. But they're missing some features that are available in Palo Alto's SSL VPN."
"It is quite new for us, and we need to go more in-depth into the monitoring tools. It provides different features that we need to do what we want. So far, it is okay for us. In terms of improvement, in the future, they can provide a faster implementation of features. Some of the features are first available in other solutions. Fortinet sometimes takes a little bit longer than other solutions, such as Check Point, to implement new features."
"To some degree, it's almost a question as to why some of this stuff isn't simpler. For example, for an AP deployment, while it's integrated, the number of steps that you have to go through in order to get the AP up, seems like a lot."
"We would like to see a better training platform implemented."
"Fortinet doesn't provide multiple virtual firewalls which would facilitate end users and customers."
"They could definitely improve on the support, especially in other countries."
"Updates come out agonizingly slowly, a trickle."
"Sophos should be more user-friendly, have more dashboards, and an easier implementation."
"There is absolutely no support when using AWS. If you buy the on-premise Sophos solution, you get support."
"They could use more SSL VPN support."
"The interface configuration could be improved."
"The application control is really bad. It needs a lot of enhancements. The traffic shaping and bandwidth control, and application control need a lot of work."
"Sophos UTM's firewall is a bit weak, and some of its features lack depth compared to other products like F5."
"They do not provide a few components that are fundamental to differentiate the products"
"It would be nice to have some sort of a form factor, a physical form factor perhaps, or virtual machine that you could install on devices or on a cloud, and have some cloud computing."
"Certain criteria need to be met if you want to scale this solution."
"Data Leak Prevention is only for web filtering and there is no protection for email."
"There are some areas it could improve when it comes to blocking, we have to block some things manually. For example, if we block a top-level domain we have seen that the new IPs come through, the IPs are not blocked. There should be some more granular way of doing it. My only request is if you're blocking something at a top level, the sub-level sub-domains and all those other IPs should be blocked too automatically."
"Its technical support services could be better."
"The product could improve its integration with some legacy systems."
"Zscaler Cloud Firewall should have a better understanding of all dynamic cloud applications."
Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is ranked 24th in Firewalls with 15 reviews. Sophos UTM is rated 8.4, while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Cloud Firewall writes "A highly stable and comprehensive cloud security and access solution". Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Zscaler Cloud Firewall is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, OPNsense and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Sophos UTM vs. Zscaler Cloud Firewall report.
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