We performed a comparison between Sophos UTM and Stormshield Network Security 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."Sophos UTM is very user-friendly and has good integration with other solutions."
"It has helped by identifying threats within the company. If there are computers or servers that are compromised, then we are able to identify them right away in the system."
"The solution is stable."
"The firewall itself is very strong and provides great security."
"The initial setup was easy."
"Monitoring and reporting are areas that need improvement."
"The most valuable feature is ransomware protection."
"Advanced protection (Sophos Sandstorm) - Protects against crypto viruses in real-time."
"It's an easy, straightforward management platform to use."
"The scalability of the solution is good."
"Our organization's main concern is stability, and this is a stable solution."
"This solution is quick and easy to configure."
"I like that it works fine. Stormshield is a very good solution."
"I can see what traffic is going on. I can easily block any programs from attacks."
"Ease of use is the best feature of the product."
"I like how you can configure the rules. There is the task for the rules and a task for the network configuration. It also provides SMD filtering, and it can be integrated with the active directory for the users, their mission, and the VPN configuration. We are here in Sudan, and Stormshield didn't work in Sudan for more than a decade. Stormshield is a very strong firewall and very easy to configure and maintain. I am just working with the firewall solution, and we don't have any other solutions like endpoint solutions or something like that."
"There is absolutely no support when using AWS. If you buy the on-premise Sophos solution, you get support."
"It does have built-in policies, which enable you to disable USB devices, etc. It would be nice if they had more policies because there are not that many of them."
"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."
"The solution's technical support for India needs to be improved."
"With Sophos UTM, there is a general rule in the firewall when the country blocking can block some countries from accessing your data. In the current version, you still need to add it by putting in the IP range. This feature would be helpful for administrators and it gives them the advantage to block stuff in less time."
"The solution needs better integration with captive portals and XGs."
"It needs a better user interface. The one they have is not so good."
"We would like to have unique viewable IDs for rules and in the packet filter logfile, for easier debugging of old log files."
"The filtering configuration could be better. We have some difficulties with the filtering configuration and the filter extension. It's not that easy. It's not that straightforward. In the next release, I would like to see a reporting system. Stormshield doesn't have any tutorials on how to do the configuration and things like that. They just have documentation on the website. If you want to configure, for example, Cisco or Fortinet, you can find tutorials on YouTube. They show you how to configure the features, and so on. In Stormshield, there is nothing on social media or the internet on how to configure different things. The lack of documentation or the lack of material makes it difficult for others to adopt this solution."
"The SD card could be more secure."
"It could be better if it were more user-friendly. It's too complicated for us to use it. The price could be better as well."
"Stormshield Network Security is quite expensive."
"The biggest issue was their support department was not able to help us, then everything stops. This is a no-go area for me."
"A more user-friendly interface would be helpful."
"This is not a next-generation firewall."
"Improvement is needed in terms of the technical support of the manufacturer."
Sophos UTM is ranked 3rd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews while Stormshield Network Security is ranked 12th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 16 reviews. Sophos UTM is rated 8.4, while Stormshield Network Security is rated 7.8. 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 Stormshield Network Security writes "Handles monitoring, collection, analysis, and reporting of data in our HQ and branches". Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Fortinet FortiGate, Sophos XG, OPNsense and Juniper SRX Series Firewall, whereas Stormshield Network Security is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG and Check Point NGFW. See our Sophos UTM vs. Stormshield Network Security report.
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