We performed a comparison between Check Point CloudGuard Network Security and Sophos Cyberoam 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."Fortinet FortiGate is user-friendly and affordable."
"Provides good firewall security and has great VPN features."
"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 most valuable features are the possibility of having one fabric for switching on security."
"We've found the solution to be pretty stable."
"This version is stable. I don't have any issues with this solution, in our environment, it works well."
"Whenever I need something, Fortinet improves and updates the software for me."
"The most valuable features are simplicity, management, and that it's constantly evolving."
"I like how straightforward it is and simple it is to implement in the cloud."
"Its integration and use of features, such as advanced threat prevention, have helped us a lot with malware prevention and also with avoiding exposure to false positives."
"It's a high-performance device. The network performance is also really good. We check how much time it takes for the servers. Our network performance has increased since using this solution."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"Check Point CloudGuard technical support is good."
"Moving into the cloud without having to change a lot of our internal processes and retrain staff is one of the biggest benefits of this solution."
"This solution brings us closer to having a better security score, which helps us a lot in complying with information regulations based on security."
"The product gives analytic reports."
"It has been working fine. You just turn it on, and it works."
"User and network policies to be managed on a single screen with powerful filtering and search options."
"We consider the user level and control features of Sophos Cyberoam UTM to be the best."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is the SD-WAN gateway."
"For a small-medium enterprise this solution is easy to manage and operate."
"The most valuable feature is the solution is easy to configure for users."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"In terms of features and user-friendliness, the solution is good. It’s very stable. The solution is scalable. In Sophos Cyberoam UTM, the most valuable features are web and application filtering, routing functionalities, and VPN. It has helped us manage the bandwidth."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"The captive portal could be improved."
"Some features of Fortinet FortiGate are actually fee enabled that are inconvenient for deploying in production. Other issues relate to isolation with Cisco products and your server."
"Their software support needs improvement. I would prefer to have better support for bug fixes. Sometimes, we open a ticket, and it is very difficult to get a solution. Specifically, we are not at all happy with their support for load balancing."
"Improvement is needed in the Web Filter quotas to restrict users with allocated quotas."
"In the next release, I would like to see the interface simplified to be more user-friendly."
"Its customer service could be better."
"For major upgrades, it's still necessary to destroy the VMs and re-create them again. Doing that would mean new public IPs as well."
"We miss full blade support for all blades that are compatible with the cluster. Especially notable is the lack of support for Identity Awareness in active standby environments for customers. In our setup, transitioning to Connective clusters would be preferable for maintaining connections during failover situations."
"They are coming out with more SD-WAN express route support from a firewall perspective. That would be great."
"The solution could improve to have a DLP feature."
"We have Microsoft CASB cloud app security and it's one of the least compatible firewalls. They really need to look at this, as both Check Point and Microsoft are major players. Why aren't they compatible? If we had Palo Alto then we wouldn't have this problem."
"The cost needs improvement as it is currently quite expensive."
"Greater automation would reduce the need for manual configuration and management."
"In case the device is inaccessible due to some issue such as CPU or memory, there is no separate port or hardware partition provided for troubleshooting purposes."
"Sophos VPN connectivity could be improved, as it can be lengthy, and users take longer to connect"
"The following could be improved: Web Filtering using wildcards; clarity regarding the firewall rules; granular reporting features."
"Cyberoam configuration is done through the browser, which is one of the places that viruses spread."
"Sometimes, during part of the configuration, if you don't have a lot of technical knowledge, then you may struggle a bit to configure it."
"The policy is a bit too vague."
"While the security features are excellent, they could be improved."
"Technical support could be faster."
"The implementation policy needs improvment."
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 5th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 121 reviews while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is rated 8.6, while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security writes "Highly reliable, great visibility, and centralized management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Cyberoam UTM writes "Stable and has a straightforward setup; reporting is fast and easy". Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is most compared with Azure Firewall, VMware NSX, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, Cisco Secure Firewall and Fortinet FortiGate-VM, whereas Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Sophos UTM and SonicWall NSa. See our Check Point CloudGuard Network Security vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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