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."The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"The user interface is relatively easy. The devices are easy to deploy and figure out when you have experience with other security appliances."
"From the firewall perspective, the rules and policies are very sufficient and easy to use."
"We use the FortiGate Sandbox to detect zero-day vulnerabilities, such as anomalies or malware, that are unknown and have not yet been discovered."
"The interface is very good."
"The interface is very user-friendly and I like it very much."
"The main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"It's an easy solution to set up."
"It is a scalable product. I know a customer who has deployed more than 4,000 firewalls in a single deployment."
"When our customer needs some optimization, along with performance and security. If they want everything in one package, I recommend Forcepoint because they have everything."
"We like the scalability of Forcepoint because with the Forcepoint NGFW solution, we can scale anything. The solution has central management, so we can manage all the branches and devices centrally in one controller."
"The Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is a scalable product."
"Technical support has been quite helpful in the past."
"I like the Firewall and the IPS."
"The solution offers sandboxing, which can be integrated at any time."
"I have two offices, and I can route the internet of both offices using the same product. The connectivity is great."
"Advanced protection (Sophos Sandstorm) - Protects against crypto viruses in real-time."
"The stability of Sophos UTM is very good. The solution has been stable since Sophos took over Cyberoam which was the original company providing this solution."
"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."
"Technical support is very responsive."
"I like the web filtering options."
"Scaling out cannot be easier, as there are many migration paths."
"The features that I've known to be most valuable are both the web security features as well as the web firewall capabilities. As a partner of Sophos firewall, we have some clients and they are using Sophos firewall UTM and we are using it as well."
"The product is extremely intuitive."
"The support costs and licensing are sometimes so expensive."
"Some of the features in the graphical user interface do not work, which requires that we used the command-line-interface."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"In the next release, maybe the documentation on how to use this solution could be improved."
"I haven't had a single issue since using Fortinet."
"The performance could be a bit better. Right now, I find it to be lacking. Having good performance is very important for our work."
"Fortinet FortiGate is not very easy to use. The navigation could be improved to make it easier to use."
"Configuration is not easy because it has an old-fashioned interface. The configuration interface is highly complex, and it's been the same for years. They have to change the interface."
"They need to increase the local support here. There are also some bugs or fixes on which they need to work. They very well know about these bugs. In terms of licensing, I would like them to either increase the number of features in a single license or make licensing more flexible."
"We feel the product's technical support could be better, as this relates to the solution itself, to the installation of the product, and to having a proper understanding of the case."
"When it comes to a complex deployment, the rules, firewall features, SD-WAN core features, and auto-scaling can cause the device to be not quite stable."
"The initial setup of the Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall has areas that are difficult."
"They need to work on stability, it has not been the best in our experience."
"Its interface is complex when compared with a firewall like FortiGate. Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall needs a management console, whereas FortiGate doesn't need any console. When you have a few devices, a console is not really necessary. It's good to have a private console only when you have a lot of devices."
"They should have a local vendor who can provide support. Most of the support is overseas, so the time zones can be a problem."
"Sophos UTM's firewall is a bit weak, and some of its features lack depth compared to other products like F5."
"The UI can be cumbersome and, sometimes, features are not where you think they should be."
"Sophos UTM could improve if there was no limitation on users."
"It's stable, but the reaction time of the GUI is terrible."
"Doesn't provide antivirus for individual computers."
"The scalability of the product is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The support could be better."
"I would like this solution to support ICAP. Also, they no longer support on-premises management, and are forcing clients to use centralized management via the cloud, which I don't agree with."
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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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