We performed a comparison between Sophos UTM and Sophos XGS 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."It has improved our organization with control data."
"Its administrative panel is very intuitive and simple. It is simpler than the other solutions that we had. As an administrator, we are always looking for the easiest solution to manage network policies. We are able to filter everything on our network and also use the VPN feature, which is important these days when people are working remotely during COVID."
"The response is very quick and they can visually resolve our problems in a short period."
"FortiGate Secure SD-WAN includes best-of-breed next-generation firewall (NGFW) security, SD-WAN, advanced routing, and WAN optimization capabilities, delivering a security-driven networking WAN edge transformation in a unified offering."
"We are a visual effects company, and there have been a number of high profile security issues in our industry. This has brought us to a higher standard of security, which our clients are very keen on these days."
"Security solution with a straightforward and quick setup. It's a stable and scalable product."
"Virtual Domains (VDOMs) are a feature that we found valuable."
"It is easy to manage, and it doesn't need much knowledge from the team. It is a stable device, and there are many features that are included out of the box."
"Sophos is a unified solution. We have anti-virus protection, firewall rules, knotting, and DACC all in one box."
"Good basic firewall functions with advanced firewall scanning."
"We've found the technical support to be helpful."
"Sophos UTM is the simplest of these products to setup."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"An easy solution to learn because the graphics are very intuitive."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The scalability is good."
"Sophos XGS's most valuable feature is content filtering."
"It's much faster than the previous firewall, so you can do the work faster."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos XGS is the application control."
"The centralized security is very good."
"Sophos XGS' most valuable features are protection and intrusion prevention detection."
"The solution offers more antimalware and antivirus feeds than others."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos is the VPN solution. I also value their threat management, IPS IDS features and login features with single sign-on."
"The most valuable features in Sophos XGS are bandwidth management, content filtering, and WAN link management failover. If one internet activity or one link would fail, automatically it will switch over to another one."
"I would like to see improvements in the product's application rules."
"The platform's interface could improve."
"The product does need better support in the cloud environment. It's not exactly cloud-native right now."
"The inability to scale the FortiAnalyzer to match our growth necessitates the purchase of new hardware."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a firewall solution and once it's deployed, you can rest assured that your system is secure."
"There are some cloud-based features that could be much more flexible than they currently are."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"Reporting is limited to providing an external appliance for improving the reporting capabilities of the FortiAnalyzer. It does not offer a central management and is also sold separably as an appliance."
"As it stands right now, when we have an internet failure on WAN1, it takes several minutes before our WAN2 connection picks up the traffic"
"They could definitely improve on the support, especially in other countries."
"The documentation during the AWS integration was a little fuzzy on getting it to work with how the whole public exposure versus private exposure, then routing some of the traffic."
"It needs a better user interface. The one they have is not so good."
"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."
"The technical support only communicates via email. I would prefer to communicate directly with someone."
"We'd like to see them offer their services on mobile devices like tablets. I'm not sure if that's an option or not."
"Sophos customer support could use some improvement."
"Sophos XGS would benefit from further development in the SD-WAN area."
"The solution could have a bit more functionality."
"Its pricing could be better."
"We'd always like the solution to be a bit less in terms of cost."
"In the new release 19, there should be the implementation of a cloud service that you can use to set up the IPSec tunnels, and the SD-WAN from the WAN dashboard, and then you can push that configuration out to every firewall that you have."
"There are some bugs relating to the product that allow VPN users to bypass the firewall."
"I would like to see a history of the monthly bandwidth utilization, the bandwidth consumption for a period of time."
"Sophos XGS's response to zero-day attacks could be improved."
Sophos UTM is ranked 3rd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews while Sophos XGS is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 62 reviews. Sophos UTM is rated 8.4, while Sophos XGS 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 Sophos XGS writes "Easy to use, simple to learn, and offers great reporting". Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Meraki MX, whereas Sophos XGS is most compared with Sophos XG, OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, WatchGuard Firebox and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Sophos UTM vs. Sophos XGS report.
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