We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW and Sophos UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The next-generation firewall is great."
"The security features are about the best that I've seen anywhere."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, application control, IPS control, and FortiSandbox."
"We use a lot of function on the IPS and it works well for us."
"It's super reliable. I don't think I've ever had a reliability issue with it."
"Some of the valuable features are the firewall, IPS, web filter, and gateway capabilities. Additionally, it is easy to use and flexible."
"Fortinet FortiGate appears to be scalable."
"Fortinet FortiGate's ease of management is the most valuable feature."
"I like the dashboard, redundancy, log analysis, threat prevention and ISP, and VPN."
"It is easy to deploy or upgrade. There is no need to do this manually with commands. This solution can be set up online."
"The product offers a robust and intuitive experience, catering to the essential needs of users."
"The most valuable feature is that we are protected against zero-day threats."
"The solution is easy to administer thanks to its dashboards. The monitoring is really useful."
"In a single bundle we have the all solutions we need - like application/URL filtering, and threat emulation/extraction."
"The characteristics on offer have come to give an added value under a single investment, thus offering many advantages."
"In R80.10 and above, you can view logs in SmartConsole. You don't have to open another smart tracker to view logs. That is the improvement Check Point has done which makes it better because it is much easier to find logs. This saves time, approximately 40 to 50 a day in one shift."
"I have no problem with the cost or licensing of this solution. This is a primary reason whay I wanted this solution. It does the same thing cheaper than other name brands."
"It improved bandwidth utilization and provided link load balancing features for internet and intranet lease lines."
"The scalability is good."
"It makes it a lot easier for us to maintain things. Prior to it, things were more difficult. This means less time on us. We can focus on other things. The recovery is more in man-hours for us than anything else."
"Brings greater visibility into the network traffic coming inside and passing away from the company."
"It gives us the ability to manage our firewalls from the cloud and deploy a unified configuration onto them. Other competitors like Meraki have that ability, but they fail to optimize it in the way that Sophos has."
"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."
"The product is extremely intuitive."
"I haven't had a single issue since using Fortinet."
"We have an issue with hotel guest vouchers."
"There are some cloud-based features that could be much more flexible than they currently are."
"The support structure needs to be improved because every time we contact them, there is a delay in the response."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"The support is the main thing that needs to be improved."
"The solution lacks sufficient filtering."
"There are SD-WAN network monitoring, SD-WAN features, Industrial Databases, Internet of Things, Detection, etc., however, we do have not licenses for those features. We thought that if you bought a product, you should have all of the features it offers. Why should you need to make so many extra purchases to enable features? They should have one price for the entire offering."
"The speed of technical support is very slow and is something that should be improved."
"It could be easier to manage the licenses on blades and contracts."
"The URL objects take significant time in processing compared to other products like Cisco FTD; it would be better if they could improve it."
"Check Point can scale but at times we have experienced some issues."
"It is a bit expensive according to the required blades but it is a platform that is worth having as security in a corporate."
"I would like there to be a way to run packets that capture more easily in the GUI environment. Right now, if we want to read packet captures, we have to do so from the command line."
"Check Point doesn't warn us when rules are about to expire. It was also inconvenient that we had to change hardware when we upgraded. It would be nice if they made the new version compatible with current hardware or if it only required a minor upgrade."
"Some features, like the VPN, antispam, data loss prevention, etc., are managed in an external console. In the future, I'd like all features in the same console, in one place, where we can see and configure all features."
"The integration capabilities could be better."
"The technical support team’s response time could be improved."
"Reporting: We have had to work manually in many of our reports."
"I would like them to move from the Classic Load Balancer to the Network Load Balancer. This would make it easier to do certain things with Amazon. They are able to do some enhancements with Network Load Balancer that they are unable to do with Classic Load Balancer."
"It's stable, but the reaction time of the GUI is terrible."
"There needs to be some improvement in the IPsec VPN. There is implementation only support. I have version one. I'd be most interested in having IP version two from the protocol."
"We need to speed up the support."
"The solution needs to do better at covering mobile devices, although they may have an integrated solution for that purpose."
Check Point NGFW doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 275 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Check Point NGFW writes "Good antivirus protection and URL filtering with very good user identification capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Azure Firewall, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Check Point NGFW vs. Sophos UTM report.
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