Sophos Cyberoam UTM Benefits

Diptendu Ghosh - PeerSpot reviewer
Group CIO at Doshi

I have configured the firewall with VPN and WAN connectivity for our three free WAN providers. I have also connected our lab to the firewall located throughout the country.

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ED
Network Administrator at Bank of Agriculture Limited

It has helped us manage the bandwidth, regulate usage, monitor visited sites, and control application downloads. This has enabled us to conserve our bandwidth effectively. It is one of the major benefits.

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German-Ruiz - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at H&O

It provides the first layer of protection against any kind of attack. It is also important to note that Sophos UTM is easy to use for the end customer. Along with its endpoint and server software, provides synchronized security as its endpoint solution connects with network protection to provide a multi-layered defense to users.

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Sophos Cyberoam UTM
March 2024
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Muhammad_Irfan - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Network Administrator at ACMC

Before, I was using TMG, and it was very difficult, back in 2010. A lot of things, like HTTP filtering and HTTPS filtering, were a problem for me at the time. If someone asked me to block YouTube for example, I was able to do so in TMG but when it came to HTTPS, I was having some problems. So this is one issue we have resolved.

The second issue, before the firewall, was we only published our required port on the internet.

Third, email filtering. Before, because we were using Go Daddy services, just normal services for email, we had everything coming in. Now, we also filter emails. 

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EB
Director Of Information Technology at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The benefits are the firewall.

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AF
Global sales head at MEPCSA

Let's talk about connecting the branches to the central headquarters. That has really improved our functioning, because we were really facing trouble with remote locations. What we had before was a decentralized mechanism in our organization, but after having this product we were able to get the remote locations into the same LAN. We were able to control the bandwidth and were able to take virtual access of those machines and give them the support, as and when required.

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FF
Network Administrator at a non-profit with 201-500 employees

The ability to have a site to site VPN, yet have the users use their local internet rather than sending all traffic back to our main site is crucial to their day to day operations. Remote VOIP phone system routing through the VPN we have extension connections to those remote campuses.

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SO
Assistant Engineer - Network Solutions at Sri Lanka Telecom Services

In some companies, productivity is not as good because people are using sites like Facebook and YouTube. This can consume a lot of data without the organization being aware of it, and Cyberoam is really good in these kinds of cases.

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it_user235446 - PeerSpot reviewer
Pre Sales Engineer at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
  • Easy to deploy.
  • Great IPS
  • Managing APs is now easy
  • Infected machines cannot connect the ERP until it is clean, so my internal servers are protected. 
  • Great reporting tool
  • User, app, and protocol all are in control.
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TL
Solutions Consultant at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

This is a managed service, which means that the customer does not need to purchase hardware and employ a system integrator to install it. Rather, they just have to subscribe to it. The service includes reports that we provide to the clients.

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RO
Managing Partner at O and O

It did the job well at several locations at an affordable cost. It was easy to maintain by the staff with better support before being acquired by Sophos.

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JM
Senior Support Analyst at a non-tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Web AV, Content Filter, reliable site to site VPN.

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it_user325818 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

A simple example would be the bandwidth usage. We do not have misuse of bandwidth and the firewall and anti-spam filter work great for me. I see a lot of dos attacks that are stopped which is also a plus point. So organizations productivity is higher thanks to the Cyberoam as users are restricted from unnecessary websites and bandwidth is capped and company functions do not suffer.

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it_user903573 - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Manager IT at a insurance company with 11-50 employees

One of the benefits has been cost reduction because I am now able to monitor my bandwidth. I have just enough bandwidth to utilize within the organization, without having to spend significant amounts toward additional bandwidth. That has been one of the major benefits.

It has also increased productivity within the organization because now, fewer people are spending time abusing the network, and are focusing more on their jobs. I have not totally blocked everything, they do get their social life after hours, it's just a control during work hours.

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GN
Team Lead.Tech.Support (Network & Security) at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

By using this UTM, I can set bandwidth for a particular user. For example, If user A is downloading lots of stuff then I can restrict him through the application Web and Bandwidth Management features.

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it_user300513 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

It has minimized the bandwidth consumption as a result of which many other applications run smoothly.

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it_user254625 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Dealing with security threats is a lot easier as it’s less of a CLI interface, and more of a GUI.

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it_user426327 - PeerSpot reviewer
Executive at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees

Flat network was there and internet surfing was high. To minimise the risk and BW allocation, Cyberoam is used and it is very productive.

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ST
IT Support Engineer at a wholesaler/distributor with 201-500 employees

This solution has improved my organization because it provides different angles. 

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it_user462609 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT Services at a security firm with 10,001+ employees

Helps us to aggregate/manage bandwidth from two ISPs, as a fail-safe.

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it_user593490 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network and Security Engineer

The product has helped control bandwidth utilization, as well as enhanced connectivity and security to remote locations.

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it_user395232 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Consultant & Network Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Secure SSL VPN out of the box appliance. It just works; good web and spam filtering.

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it_user231909 - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales Engineer at a tech company with 201-500 employees

I used to work for a Cyberoam distributor. In one of my projects, I deployed it in a university with 1500 users (students), all of whom had different QoS and web category policies, different authentication policies. I then had to connect the university’s branches, in different cities, with a Site to Site VPN using AD authentication available for just the account. This was to restrict access only to the accounting application server of the other branch. It was quite complicated to do, but it was very successful.

In another project for a bank, I secured a banking application server and attached a database using two Cyberoam devices on the edge, with a Juniper device in the middle. This was for securing three different segments - internal users, internal developers and external visitors. The final topology was so secure that, even for some testing purposes, we were not able to break in to change the configuration and access the system as a third party.

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it_user545529 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It has made internet usage more productive for internal users.

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it_user179934 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security and Infrastructure Analyst at a tech company with 51-200 employees

It's improved productivity as well as user and network security.. It's helped with internet access management and provides security against external attacks.

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it_user285771 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director / CTO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The virtual cyberoam has allowed us to segment our cloud customers via a virtual firewall instance per customer as a second level of security behind our primary systems firewalls.  This allows the customer granular controls at their level and then allows us overriding controls at a parental level.  Makes for great security.

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it_user323775 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Development Executive at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

There has been great productivity as, during working hours, I have managed to to set them to view that which relates to the nature of our business.

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Buyer's Guide
Sophos Cyberoam UTM
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Sophos Cyberoam UTM. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.