We performed a comparison between Azure Firewall and Sophos Cyberoam 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 reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"It increases security posture and is helpful for firewall reporting, intrusion protection, web filtering, and SD-WAN implementation."
"The simplicity of the configuration and the stability of the product are most valuable. The VPN concentrator is very useful."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and there are several operating systems that can include the hardware capacities. In the newer releases, the resources were more useful because they were included in the operating system."
"Some of the valuable features are the firewall, IPS, web filter, and gateway capabilities. Additionally, it is easy to use and flexible."
"The technical support in our region is excellent."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, application control, IPS control, and FortiSandbox."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The SIEM that Azure Firewall provides us is very robust."
"The feature that I have found the most valuable is the control over the network permissions and the network."
"Azure's cost-effectiveness is its major advantage."
"The most valuable feature is the integration into the overall cloud platform."
"The solution is very stable. When comparing it to other environments, it's actually quite impressive."
"The Layer four features are okay and meet my business needs."
"Great security and connectivity."
"I like its order management feature. It doesn't have the kind of threat intelligence that Palo Alto has, but the order management makes it much simpler to know the difference."
"The dashboard is very good-looking and offers maximum features. If a customer's website has a problem, we can guide them over the phone because they can easily find the specific option on the dashboard. That's why we suggest buying Sophos."
"The port forwarding is good."
"The tool is stable."
"The reporting features are very good."
"Web Filtering and Application Filtering saves a lot of my bandwidth and improves the user's productivity."
"The most valuable features are the firewall section, the VPN, and how you control live users."
"Web application filtering eases internet access control."
"Technical support is excellent."
"They need to improve their technical support."
"Performance and technical support are the main issues with this solution."
"The UTM filtering needs improvement."
"We had some issues in the beginning while setting it up, but after doing the firmware update, it is working fine."
"Some of the features in the graphical user interface do not work, which requires that we used the command-line-interface."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution. However, my issue is the performance only. When I use all the profiles, this affects the performance. From the beginning, I should have had a better sizing of the box."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"It would be a benefit if Fortinet would release a one-stop solution that is better integrated with other products and an automated emergency response system."
"They can improve the pricing of Azure Firewall."
"The threat intelligence part could be better. I don't see why our customers have to get an additional solution with Azure Firewall. It would be great if they made it on par with Palo Alto."
"Azure Firewall should have a free trial version for new users so that they can evaluate it before deploying it."
"The development area and QA area could be improved. With those improvements, we can improve projects and take even less time to implement them."
"You have to have a defined IP range within your network to associate it with your network. The problem is you have to plan ahead of time if you expect to use the firewall in the future so that you don't have to reconfigure your subnets or that specific IP range. Other than that, I don't any issues. I use it for basic configuration for a single application, so I really don't try to leverage it for multiple applications where I might find some complexity or challenges."
"There is room for further integration of AI into the system."
"The solution should incorporate features similar to competitors like split tunneling."
"An Azure firewall is not a real firewall."
"The technical support response time could be faster."
"The product had a hang issue. We needed to reboot, recreate the image, and reconfigure the previous image because the product hanged frequently."
"The solution should improve its scalability because it cannot support enterprise networks."
"Sometimes, users are timed out intermittently."
"There is a lot or room for improvement, because it is still not a fourth or fifth generation firewall. It lacks security features."
"The solution's pricing could be a problem for some small businesses."
"Network visibility is an area in the solution with shortcomings where improvements can be made."
"We use different workarounds and find different solutions for it, depending on the client's needs. We shouldn't have to, we should just be able to use the product as it comes with Cyberoam, rather than having to revert to other products."
Azure Firewall is ranked 21st in Firewalls with 33 reviews while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Azure Firewall writes "Easy to use and configure but could be more robust". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Cyberoam UTM writes "Stable and has a straightforward setup; reporting is fast and easy". Azure Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Check Point NGFW, whereas Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Sophos UTM and SonicWall NSa. See our Azure Firewall vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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