We performed a comparison between Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall 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."It is easy to use. We chose this product for the possibility to have virtual domains (VDOMs). We are building another company in the group, and we would like to split the firewalling rules and policies between these two companies. Each company would be able to manage its own policies and security rules, which is an advantage of Fortinet FortiGate. We can define VDOMs, and every company can manage its own VDOM as if it has its own physical firewall, but in fact, we would be using the same physical appliance because we are also using the same internet lines. So, it allows us to reuse the existing resources without the disadvantage of having to compromise on policies and security. Each company can choose its own way of working."
"I really like the captive portal feature for our guest network. It has nice VLAN features in terms of separating our network. The anti-virus is also good."
"The feature I like most is the SD-WAN. It allows you to manage more than one ISP at the same time. And there is a high-availability mode, so if one of your ISPs is down, you still have a backup."
"FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"Fortinet FortiGate protects against internet-based threats, both internal and external. It is scalable, stable, easy to use, and easy to install."
"Fortinet FortiGate is user-friendly and affordable."
"It is a safe product."
"Security solution with a straightforward and quick setup. It's a stable and scalable product."
"Forcepoint is a complete package because it has network and systems applications. Other firewalls are only for the network."
"The solution offers sandboxing, which can be integrated at any time."
"The most valuable feature is SD-WAN."
"It is a scalable product. I know a customer who has deployed more than 4,000 firewalls in a single deployment."
"The simplicity of the solution is its most valuable asset. It's very user-friendly."
"The support is great. They also have very good categorization. It's very good. It captures a lot of threats."
"The central security management center and the content management center are very good."
"The most valuable feature is the console management."
"Sophos has a single pane of glass which allows me to manage all my VPCs from a single instance, managing all my firewall from one place."
"Advanced protection (Sophos Sandstorm) - Protects against crypto viruses in real-time."
"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."
"Efficient and effective - it's easy to separate rules."
"It's a stable solution."
"Brings greater visibility into the network traffic coming inside and passing away from the company."
"The UTM features are reasonably strong and the patterns are updated on a regular basis"
"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 support costs and licensing are sometimes so expensive."
"I would like to see more advanced developments of a wireless controller in the future."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"The solution could be more secure and stable."
"The inability to scale the FortiAnalyzer to match our growth necessitates the purchase of new hardware."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"Management could be better. They can improve the management. I think all our customers can't accept firewalls that have standalone management. So, they prefer Fortinet or Palo Alto. But overall, inspection and other features are working fine."
"The solution's support could use improvement."
"The network interface could be better, and it could be cheaper."
"The solution needs to build upon its network functionality. It needs to be a bit smarter."
"Its management center should be easier to use. The management interface of Forcepoint is unique and a little bit different from some of the firewall solutions on which people might have worked before. Sometimes, the customers say that it is not very friendly, and we help them with how to use this management interface. It just takes a little bit of time, and after some time, it gets easy to manage or use. It is quite similar to Palo Alto, Fortinet, and legacy Juniper solutions. Their support should be faster. We have received complaints that they are not responding fast, which is not good for the vendor and us."
"The ability to dynamically change policies could be improved."
"It's a complicated firewall. Until you come to know the firewall inducers, most people don't like the firewall because the components for the firewall are a little bit complex. User-friendliness is a little bit tough. It needs to be user-friendly when creating policies, and pushing policies. Committing takes more time compared to Palo Alto."
"Something that I've noticed that Forcepoint lacks, is the training that they offer to their end-customers"
"The only time we face a problem or issues is when we place a ticket. We have found that response is very slow."
"The solution could be improved by adding cloud soundboxing."
"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"
"It's stable, but the reaction time of the GUI is terrible."
"There were a lot of features and functionality in Sophos SG UTM but nothing was state of the art in terms of technology. You did not get the latest functions. It was very monolithic as it was based on an old Linux PuTTY system."
"In short, the UI and UX are the areas of improvement in Sophos UTM and similar solutions compared to Palo Alto."
"I don't really have any notes for improvements."
"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."
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Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 41 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.6, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall writes "Provides decent protection for the LAN but complicated interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, Check Point NGFW, Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall vs. Sophos UTM report.
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