We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure 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."The signature database and zero-day detection are Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features."
"The solution is extremely reliable."
"I like that you are able to manage FortiGate from the FortiManager to create a more centralized environment."
"It's super reliable. I don't think I've ever had a reliability issue with it."
"The solution is easy to configure and maintain remotely."
"I am "headache free" that I don't have to categorize all the websites and that security has been pre categorized by the people, and that the services are getting updated. At least one part of my problem is over."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the analytics."
"Using this product makes the VPN seamless and almost invisible to me in the sense that I don't have to think about it."
"A stable, reliable solution used to protect the network's perimeter."
"REST API offering with rich capabilities which makes the product very robust."
"The customer service/technical support is very good with this solution."
"Its VPN and ASN features are very stable."
"Cisco ASA works very nicely from an administration perspective. The management of the device is very nice. The ASDM (Adaptive Security Device Manager) is the software that we use and it is very easy to configure using the GUI."
"Logging is great. It will show when it reaches its capacity before it is too late, unless you have bursts of traffic."
"Simple to deploy, stable."
"We have multiple secure internal networks linked with our plants. We are from a oil company, so we have multiple plant areas which need to have restricted network access. Therefore, we are using it for restricting access to the plant area."
"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."
"I would recommend UTM over XG because it's easier to manage."
"Sophos UTM's best feature is synchronized security."
"Sophos UTM is the simplest of these products to setup."
"The most valuable feature is the IPS. It also protects us from malware."
"The scalability is good."
"The firewall itself is very strong and provides great security."
"UTM 9 brings along IPSec as well as iPhone and iPad support. This seems small but it’s useful."
"Compared to some other products, the DLP is not at par for the moment."
"We had a minor problem where there was a major system upgrade on the hardware platfrom and the Mac client was not available as soon as it might have been. The PC client was available immediately, but we had to wait a month or so, before there was a mac client. I was slightly irritated that it was not ready on time, but it was eventually resolved."
"From a reporting perspective, there's room for improvement. They're providing FortiAnalyzer through which one can get some enhancements, but the visibility and reporting still need slight improvement."
"With the addition of some features, it is possible that FortiGate can be used in all verticals."
"The pricing could always be better."
"The debugging and troubleshooting has room for improvement."
"The firewall engine is not so strong as of now, in my opinion... My second concern is that, while they have Zero-day vulnerability and anti-malware features, the threat engine needs to be strengthened, its efficiency can be increased."
"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 is overcomplicated in some senses. Simplifying it would be an improvement."
"On firewall features, Fortinet is better. Cisco needs to become more competitive and add more features or meet Fortinet's offering."
"The ability to integrate (as options) all-in-one features -- like anti-spam, anti-virus, etc."
"We have seen some bugs come up with Cisco Secure Firewall in terms of high availability. The solution should be improved to avoid these bugs."
"Some individuals find the setup and configuration challenging."
"They need a user-friendly interface that we could easily configure."
"When comparing the graphical interface of this solution to other vendors it is more difficult to configure. There is a higher learning curve for administrators in this solution."
"Other products are becoming easier to access and configure. They are providing UI interfaces to configure, take backup, synchronize redundant machines, and so on. It is very easy to take backup and upgrade the images in those products. Cisco ASA should have such features. If one redundant machine is getting upgraded, the technology and support should be there to upgrade other redundant machines. In a single window, we should be able to do more in terms of backups, restores, and upgrades."
"Support for IKEv2 is needed in this solution."
"This product could use some improvement with web filtering. It takes a lot of time and effort to set up and maintain."
"The management suite is easy and the agent is easy to develop."
"When we call support, we get put on hold for a long time."
"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."
"Flexibility in pricing could be improved. It's more rigid in its pricing compared to its competitor: Kaspersky."
"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."
"It would be nice if it had basic features, such as DLP (Data Loss Prevention)."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall writes "Highlights and helps us catch Zero-day vulnerabilities traveling across our network". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and SonicWall NSa, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and WatchGuard Firebox. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Sophos UTM report.
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