We performed a comparison between Perimeter 81 and Sophos 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."The dashboard I have found the most valuable in Fortinet FortiGate."
"There are great templates, so you don't have to customize them if you don't want to. You do have the option to custom create some folders and some reports, however, with what is there, you don't really need to go through extra effort, as they already give you a lot of predefined views of reports and so forth."
"Mainly the FortiGate reporting system is very good. It guides us through all the expectations of security. Fortinet provides us all that we need for security. Also, Fortinet FortiGate is a next-generation firewall. It is much more advanced than others."
"The interface is very good."
"SSL-VPN is very useful for us and has been very reliable."
"The security features are about the best that I've seen anywhere."
"Offers good security and filtering."
"Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features are ease of use, flexibility, and most of the configuration we can be done using the GUI. When we compare Fortinet FortiGate with other solutions the firewall policy are very easy to understand."
"Providing access and security allows our company employees to work from home and remotely."
"SD-WAN is one of the primary solutions offered by Perimeter 81."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Perimeter 81 has increased my security and privacy while maintaining solid internet performance."
"The benefits are really built into the underlying protocol, however, Perimeter81 makes these available in a user-friendly way."
"It keeps us all accountable and ensures secure internet connections while we all work remotely."
"Logging back into Perimeter 81 is relatively user-friendly as I just need to re-type my Windows credentials in to access the VPN."
"It connects quickly and stays connected. The user interface is pretty neat too. The app has in-house support with user guides that give you step-by-step walkthroughs on navigating the app. In addition, there is a live chat feature that offers prompt assistance on the go."
"It is a very good product. The threat monitoring process is the most valuable feature."
"The UTM features are reasonably strong and the patterns are updated on a regular basis"
"The initial setup was easy."
"The implementation with the AWS environment was good."
"The solution's sandboxing, application center, and database engine are good."
"UTM 9 brings along IPSec as well as iPhone and iPad support. This seems small but it’s useful."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the efficiency and mail filtering module."
"What I like about Sophos UTM is that it improves my company's security. The solution is easy to set up, which I like, and it's very stable."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more capabilities for troubleshooting VPN connections. For example, I do get some feedback about the current status, but I could use some history and logging of important events. The information is logged in our Syslog server, but I could use that information from the device. If they could provide a GUI to have some more insight on what's going with my VPN would be useful."
"In the future, I would like to see improvements made to cloud-based management."
"It needs more available central management."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"Scalability is one of the disadvantages. When it comes to scalability, you have to actually change the box. If you want to upgrade it, you need to actually change the existing box and probably you take the system off to other sites."
"I could not configure sFlow from the FortiGate graphical user interface. I realized that the sFlow configuration is available only from the CLI, and discovered that sFlow is not supported on virtual interfaces, such as VDOM links, IPsec, or GRE."
"We sometimes have issues with FortiGate's routing table in the latest firmware update. We had to downgrade the device because our customers complained about bugs."
"We were not able to build a full-mesh VPN; however, I am not sure if this was the fault of Fortinet FortiGate."
"The solution's speed of upload and download is an area where it lacks"
"If I were to be nitpicky, I would ask that Perimeter 81 offer the option for us to change the color of the graphical user interface, like maybe pink or green or so on."
"In the future, maybe P81 can improve the network traffic balancing and redundancy."
"What would be useful would be a notification/warning that a session is due to timeout after exceeding the default connection limit."
"One of the more negative experiences using Perimeter 81 is the fact that I am logged off after a pre-determined amount of time which cuts off access to some of my company's resources."
"In order to have to bypass the login using the website, a good feature for Perimeter 81 to have is a login instance in the Perimeter 81 application. I'm using a Mac and we don't have that functionality."
"The platform still lacks relevant dashboards and the ability to customize them based on our needs."
"There is a very small amount of downtime."
"Sophos UTM could be simplified, and they can improve on the many other features, like SD-WAN and load balancing. Sophos UTM is missing a few features that their competitors have. For example, if you have multiple branches you would like to connect, the load balancing features aren't available on multilink. If we create a VPM for multiple LAN links, we cannot load balance the traffic."
"The virus updates will always depend on new viruses that are discovered. Maybe they can send a notification or a reminder for update time."
"I didn't like it much. It suits only small businesses. It isn't scalable and reliable. There is a very critical issue with the power supply."
"It needs a better user interface. The one they have is not so good."
"It is a pretty straightforward setup, but it should be some sort of documentation that takes you step-by-step to help set it up for your VPC."
"The memory and processing were problematic. The interface could be better."
"The only time we face a problem or issues is when we place a ticket. We have found that response is very slow."
"The five-factor authentication needs improvement."
Perimeter 81 is ranked 11th in Firewalls with 22 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Perimeter 81 is rated 9.2, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Perimeter 81 writes "Great SAML and SCIM support with the ability to deploy site-2-site tunnels with specific IP restrictions". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Perimeter 81 is most compared with Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, Cato SASE Cloud Platform, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Cloudflare Access and Tailscale, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Perimeter 81 vs. Sophos UTM report.
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