We performed a comparison between Sophos UTM and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Sophos, Cisco, WatchGuard and others in Unified Threat Management (UTM)."Sophos SG UTM had all the basic functionality that you needed. It is user-friendly and easy to manage for any integrator."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the simple-to-use interface."
"This is a very stable product."
"They are all good, but most-used are Network Protection and Web Filtering."
"Scaling out cannot be easier, as there are many migration paths."
"It allows our developers to be able to securely log into servers to deploy and manage software."
"It meets our compliance needs in an elastic computer environment."
"The most valuable features of the solution are application filtering and web filtering."
"The solution can scale well."
"This is a capable appliance and the standard features work well for us."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from web filtering, malware protection, and antivirus."
"The solution needs to do better at covering mobile devices, although they may have an integrated solution for that purpose."
"The virus updates will always depend on new viruses that are discovered. Maybe they can send a notification or a reminder for update time."
"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."
"Sophos should improve its ability to check something like bandwidth consumption for users or something more real-time."
"Stay away from the wireless models, since you cannot put them in HA. They start to give you some weird issues once you start getting into multiple SSIDs and networks."
"I don't really have any notes for improvements."
"The reporting could be a lot better."
"The solution's technical support for India needs to be improved."
"The product has some scalability and data management issues where improvements are required."
"Although manageable, the user interface is a little bit slow and could be improved."
"Sometimes it reboots when you least expect it, and that's the main issue."
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Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is ranked 10th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 3 reviews. Sophos UTM is rated 8.4, while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is rated 6.0. 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 Zyxel Unified Security Gateway writes "A robust appliance that is reasonably priced and straightforward to set up". Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Fortinet FortiGate, Sophos XG, OPNsense and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG and WatchGuard Firebox.
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