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."UTM/NGFW features and FortiCloud for logs and backups are awesome."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"It's very good and very stable for businesses. It works very well."
"Fortigate represents a really scalable way of delivering perimeter network security, some level of layer 7 security, WAF, and also a way to create a meshed ADVPN solution."
"Overall, the pricing of the solution is very good. The product offers good value."
"The ease of setting the solution up is a valuable aspect for us."
"The initial setup of Fortinet FortiGate was straightforward."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and there are several operating systems that can include the hardware capacities. In the newer releases, the resources were more useful because they were included in the operating system."
"Web Filtering and Application Filtering saves a lot of my bandwidth and improves the user's productivity."
"In terms of features and user-friendliness, the solution is good. It’s very stable. The solution is scalable. In Sophos Cyberoam UTM, the most valuable features are web and application filtering, routing functionalities, and VPN. It has helped us manage the bandwidth."
"We have never had to restart a firewall. The firewalls have all worked perfectly fine."
"It has been working fine. You just turn it on, and it works."
"The product, itself, doesn't seem to have any bugs or glitches."
"All in one UTM appliance."
"Our customers find it economical and offers good security. These two features are key. Ease of installation and implementation are also key factors."
"The product has helped control bandwidth utilization, as well as enhanced connectivity and security to remote locations."
"IPS and advanced threat protection (ATP) are the most valuable features. I am able to segment my network traffic and block incoming connections. It is also easy to use."
"What we found valuable is the way they deal with emails, as well as the way the bandwidth usage is shown."
"The most useful aspect of the solution is the concept of integrated security."
"The product has a console that is based in the cloud for all their products. In this console, they have email security, firewall security, endpoint security, et cetera. All of the products on offer in the console are very useful for us."
"The product offers many great features."
"We found the initial setup to be straightforward."
"It's a good security tool and it aligns with the rest of our security stack."
"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."
"There is one big configuration file with no separations for the unique VDOMs. Maybe they could separate individual VDOM configuration files with the root VDOM configuration file referencing the individual VDOM config files."
"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 could improve by having more storage in the hardware for log data."
"Fortinet FortiGate is not very easy to use. The navigation could be improved to make it easier to use."
"The support system could be improved."
"We would like to see better pricing."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a firewall solution and once it's deployed, you can rest assured that your system is secure."
"The performance could be a bit better. Right now, I find it to be lacking. Having good performance is very important for our work."
"I would like to see a better content management pack and also the website searching should be better."
"Its scalability is not that great."
"I would like to see real-time alerts on traffic insights."
"Sophos VPN connectivity could be improved, as it can be lengthy, and users take longer to connect"
"The configuration requires an expert to be set up, so it could be made simpler."
"The VPN needs to be improved."
"The technical support response time could be faster."
"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."
"The only area that requires improvement is scalability."
"I would like to see the performance improved."
"Their tech support is not great."
"When upgrading the firewalls, the process could be easier."
"Areas for improvement would be the access points and the on-premise version, which is very bad."
"Its price should be improved. Its features are pretty okay, but the price is the area where we have to fight more. They should do something about the price structure."
"The solution could improve by making the graphical interface better and increasing the performance."
"When I call, I have to wait at least one to two hours to reach them."
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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