We performed a comparison between Sophos Cyberoam UTM and Sophos XG 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 solution is very easy to understand. It's not overly complex."
"There are lots of features and most of them are deployed for internet security. Users are protected if they accidentally go to some malicious sites."
"The CLI and GUI do a good job of putting a lot at your fingertips."
"We are very happy with the general bandwidth agility we have seen from one website to another website."
"The Fortinet FortiGate local partners were good. I did not have direct contact with Fortinet support."
"Our security improved from being able to put in rules and close off unwanted traffic."
"The user interface is relatively easy. The devices are easy to deploy and figure out when you have experience with other security appliances."
"The most important features with FortiGate are the web filter and application controls. We can control our internet usage and use the web filter for application purposes."
"The most valuable feature is the IPSec forwarding."
"I find Sophos Cyberoam UTM very good. I like the feature of being able to block off Mac IDs that host users. For example, you have a Mac or Windows laptop and you created a hotspot. Other devices like mobiles and tablets e.g. iPads connected to that hotspot. We can block those devices that connected to the hotspot we created, only through Sophos. It's a good feature we didn't find in other UTMs."
"The main features I have found best are the load balancer and ease of use."
"Technical support is excellent."
"The most valuable feature of this product is the threat protection."
"There are plenty of features available, such as Full Guard and WAN."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is the SD-WAN gateway."
"The product is a simple and user-friendly UTM that can handle accounting, reporting, firewall, IPS, and antivirus for industries."
"It is simple to use."
"The SL VPNs are the most valuable feature. I have a lot of systems out of the head office that need to connect to the local networks, and they all connect wirelessly via the Sophos VPN client."
"The most valuable feature is web filtering."
"It has a very friendly interface like the Cyberoam iNG units, it has customizable policies, it has proper templates that you can even modify, and you can customize the rules, down to each single user."
"The simplicity of the setup is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature I have found to be the reporting function."
"The most valuable features are its nice interfaces and configuration. The endpoint is also very good."
"The most valuable features are the central management, the user VPN, and communications."
"The renewal price and the availability could be improved."
"The logging details need to be improved."
"A couple of things I've seen that need improvement, especially in terms of a hard coding. The driver-level active moment really is out-of-the-box and we have to have contact the customer support and sometimes it is difficult to resolve."
"The pricing could always be better."
"The monitor and the visibility, in this proxy, is very weak."
"The support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"The solution could be more evenly structured."
"The search tool needs improvement. It's very difficult to search for policies right now."
"The solution's pricing could be a problem for some small businesses."
"Maybe network traffic analysis for malware and malicious behavior."
"While the security features are excellent, they could be improved."
"VPN configuration is not very swift."
"I would like to see a better content management pack and also the website searching should be better."
"It should have a better VPN client. We decided to find something different than Cyberoam because of the VPN client software. It would be nice to have a user interface not only in English but also in different languages."
"There are some issues with logs and report limitations."
"Sometimes, users are timed out intermittently."
"The initial setup is not straightforward."
"Areas for improvement would be the access points and the on-premise version, which is very bad."
"The VPN device could be improved upon."
"Some of the firewall rules are complicated for us to understand, they should be simplified."
"It would be beneficial if the platform provided more flexible support for a variety of devices."
"Scalability it is a bit limited. We did a sizing exercise before the purchase. But that was just to fit our current needs. There was no room for having an option to upgrade the device. The only option that we have if we are grow in the near future, is to go for another model with higher specs, which is actually more expensive. In other words it doesn't have that modularity ."
"The VPN has been a persistent problem for us. It's not straightforward to configure."
"The reporting could be improved in this solution by adding more details."
Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews while Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews. Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0, while Sophos XG is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Sophos Cyberoam UTM writes "Stable and has a straightforward setup; reporting is fast and easy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos XG writes "Easy to use and deploy with an improved pricing structure in place". Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Sophos UTM, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and OPNsense, whereas Sophos XG is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS, SonicWall TZ and Sophos UTM. See our Sophos Cyberoam UTM vs. Sophos XG report.
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