We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW 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 offers the latest versions to cater to the needs of enterprises."
"We purchased Fortinet because of the pricing, its functionality, because it met our requirements, and the total cost of ownership over five years was quite reasonable. In the market, Fortinet is rated quite well."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is security. They are known for efficiency and are on the top of Gartner Quadrant reviews. Fortinet FortiGate has an easy-to-use platform with a good graphical interface. The configuration is simple and the solution provides an overall good layer of security."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use. Anyone can easily maintain it."
"It is a good source for firewall protection."
"The signature database and zero-day detection are Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features."
"We are using the FortiGate 100D series. VPN, firewall, anti-malware, OTM, and intrusion prevention are useful features."
"The security fabric is excellent."
"I haven't had any data leaks or vulnerability situations."
"It provides access to the Internet for corporate resources in a secure manner."
"Many problems have been solved with these firewalls and we've largely been very satisfied."
"Check Point offers virtualized systems, making it easy to scale."
"The fact that these can be separated and made in different layers provides excellent convenience for the administrators who regulate the rules."
"The firewalling feature and the VPN functionality are excellent."
"It is a very friendly platform and easy to configure."
"I was impressed by how easy it was to activate blades and implement them on a security gateway, with the process taking less than five minutes."
"The solution's web filtering is an important feature for us in our company."
"The most valuable feature of this product is the threat protection."
"The port forwarding is good."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM is used for perimeter security, web filtering, intrusion prevention and as a VPN."
"We consider the user level and control features of Sophos Cyberoam UTM to be the best."
"Bandwidth Management and aggregation. It is valuable for combining two ISPs. Switching to a secondary/redundant ISP is thus seamless, in the event that the primary ISP goes down. The Bandwidth Management is also valuable for limiting heavy downloaders that may impact negatively on the experience of other users."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is the SD-WAN gateway."
"The dashboard is very good-looking and offers maximum features. If a customer's website has a problem, we can guide them over the phone because they can easily find the specific option on the dashboard. That's why we suggest buying Sophos."
"Sometimes you do need to know some CLI commands, so it's a bit harder for technicians or new people that don't know it."
"Compared to some other products, the DLP is not at par for the moment."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"In terms of what could be improved, the SD-WAN is quite difficult, because if you install the new box, 15 is okay, but if you change from an old configuration, if there is already configuration and a policy when you change to SD-WAN, you must change the whole policy that you see in the interface."
"The solution could be more evenly structured."
"It is quite new for us, and we need to go more in-depth into the monitoring tools. It provides different features that we need to do what we want. So far, it is okay for us. In terms of improvement, in the future, they can provide a faster implementation of features. Some of the features are first available in other solutions. Fortinet sometimes takes a little bit longer than other solutions, such as Check Point, to implement new features."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the protection, it did not prevent us from being attacked. Additionally, Fortinet FortiGate could provide more features for WAF devices. I should not have to purchase two solutions, it would be a benefit to combine these features into one solution."
"At first glance, the interface for the device is very confusing."
"The virtual infrastructure of the central management requires a huge amount of resources to work properly and manage all the logs without problems."
"I hope for product simplification. It would be better to use one security console, instead of many of them (for licensing and monitoring). The solution is hard for newcomers and takes much time to deep in. Also, I want a historical graph for throughput and system resources usage. Maybe it will be great to make easy step-by-step installation and configuration cookbooks as Fortinet did, and integrate the documentation within the solution."
"It's too expensive for mid-market companies."
"The firewall can improved to make it more user-friendly."
"I would like the graphic user interface to be easier to use. For example, the NAT policy should be easier to use. Check Point's NAT policy is somewhat confused compared to other competitors."
"The anti-spam needs improvement."
"The web UI for VSX could be better."
"The training for Check Point Firewall should increase, including the number of Training Centers. For most new people in our organization, we have to provide them training from our end, as they are not trained in Check Point Firewalls. So, we have to do the training, from our point of view, to make our engineers able to use Check Point Firewalls. However, with other firewalls, they are already trained, so we are not require to provide them training. This could be improved by the Check Point Community."
"I have problems with the email filtering. Emails pass through without any filtering affecting them. When I get back to them and tell them this is the issue, they check everything and say it is not in their database signature and they have to update it. But you know, by that time, my user has already opened it."
"I would like to see real-time alerts on traffic insights."
"The product’s pricing has increased by approximately 45% in four months. This particular area needs improvement."
"Needs a mail alert/notification when the device loses any of its connections, during ISP redundancy implementation."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"Technical support could be faster."
"The implementation policy needs improvment."
"We have had some issues with technical support, which is an area that needs improvement."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 279 reviews while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 9th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Check Point NGFW writes "Good antivirus protection and URL filtering with very good user identification capabilities". 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 NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Azure Firewall, whereas Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Sophos UTM, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Sophos XG. See our Check Point NGFW vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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