We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate-VM 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."The pricing is great and very reasonable."
"It's very fast and easy to configure."
"Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use."
"Customers are more inclined towards FortiGate because of application control, web filtering, and anti-spam features. The support from the FortiGate team is good, and price-wise, it is affordable."
"Customers want to load balance more than eight lines or six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this."
"It's very easy to configure."
"Some of the valuable features are the firewall, IPS, web filter, and gateway capabilities. Additionally, it is easy to use and flexible."
"This product is affordable and it's a good, high-performance appliance."
"The user interface, stability, and scalability are the most valuable features."
"It provides an ease of management and configuration as well."
"The policies are very valuable. They allow me to secure and manage future traffic effectively."
"The most valuable features we have found to be the VPN, ease of use, and overall simplicity."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate-VM are the servers, analyzer, and track protection."
"It is very versatile."
"The reporting is good."
"Sophos integrates seamlessly, and we don't even feel it is running in the background."
"It meets our compliance needs in an elastic computer environment."
"Sophos UTM's best feature is synchronized security."
"The firewall itself is very strong and provides great security."
"The most valuable features of Sophos UTM are the ease of use, it is very user-friendly. You can understand what they implement in the new firmware, and it's easy to manage the firewalls."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the simple-to-use interface."
"We find all of the features valuable because together they fit the needs of our customers."
"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 non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the logging and reporting. Additionally, the next-generation application's policies should be improved. When they were released they had bugs."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"It is stable, but its stability can be improved."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"The integration with third-party tools may be something that they should work on."
"They should offer special pricing to premium partners and customers."
"I have had a data issue with physical devices that could improve."
"I don't have any specific improvements to suggest, but perhaps the pricing could be enhanced. Regarding updates, more frequent updates would be appreciated. FortiGate-VM is currently focused on providing very good firmware updates, automation, and top-notch features. It stands as a great product for now. Based on our needs and the vulnerabilities we've encountered due to various downloads, I suggest integrating with Kaspersky Gateway. This integration would involve scanning and inspecting both official emails and spam emails. Our customer has successfully worked with Kaspersky Gateway, and overall, the integration has been effective."
"It is a very good product, and it is good at standing by itself. It can maybe have a little bit of integration with other products, but it is not that important for most use cases."
"FortiGate-VM could be improved by making it cloud-based. I'd like it to be a cloud-based management solution instead of just a dedicated management orchestration tool."
"The log settings and filters could use some improvement."
"The product does not have a good graphical interface."
"Right now, we have two data centers that are a thousand kilometers apart. It would be nice to be able to string them together."
"The biggest area for improvement is storage configuration. It could be smoother."
"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."
"Sophos UTM could be simplified, and they can improve on the many other features, like SD-WAN and load balancing. Sophos UTM is missing a few features that their competitors have. For example, if you have multiple branches you would like to connect, the load balancing features aren't available on multilink. If we create a VPM for multiple LAN links, we cannot load balance the traffic."
"I would like to see Sophos UTM add support for all the new threat-detection technologies and the ability to respond to novel security threats that come along every day."
"The classification segregation of applications lacks sufficient definition."
"Anti-phishing functionality should be improved."
"The application control is really bad. It needs a lot of enhancements. The traffic shaping and bandwidth control, and application control need a lot of work."
"Sophos customer support could use some improvement."
Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 113 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate-VM is rated 8.4, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate-VM writes "An easy-to-manage and configure tool that provides ample documentation to help with the setup phase". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Fortinet FortiOS, OPNsense and Sophos XG, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Fortinet FortiGate-VM vs. Sophos UTM report.
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