We performed a comparison between Check Point CloudGuard Network Security and Sophos 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."The security on offer is very good."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is the simple configuration."
"I like several features that this product has, such as antivirus and internet navigation inspection. It is also simple to use."
"I like that you are able to manage FortiGate from the FortiManager to create a more centralized environment."
"Security solution with a straightforward and quick setup. It's a stable and scalable product."
"You can purchase switches and you don't need to do anything with them. You just put in the firewall and the switches get all the policies and rules that you already have in the firewall. With Fortinet, you just connect the FortiSwitch to the Fortinet and that's it."
"I like Fortinet's cloud management. It allows me to manage all my devices in different branches for three cloud accounts. Even though I use on-prem devices, I can manage everything on the cloud."
"There is an easy process for configuring it, and it is straightforward to implement the device from scratch."
"The notifications, the visibility, and the deployment are the most valuable. It could be packaged in such a way that it took a lot of time and resources off our hands, so it was more efficient."
"We find all the features valuable, particularly the firewall, application control, URL filtering, and HTTPS detection."
"It matches what we have on-prem. We kept the same management and the same functionality that we were having on-prem. It has simplified things for us because there is no new dashboard to touch."
"It is scalable. It's a cloud solution, so it's easy to implement and manage."
"We are using gateways, and I appreciate the high-availability gateways they have. They stand out more than the competitors."
"The main benefit of the Check Point Virtual Systems solution is its ability to split up the hardware appliances that we have into several logical, virtual devices with separate traffic handling policies, as well as the switching and routing."
"The capability to auto-scale in or out, depending on the resource demand is great."
"This solution has good scalability and stability."
"Has great security features and does a good job of protecting the network."
"Sophos integrates seamlessly, and we don't even feel it is running in the background."
"The three most important features for us are web protection, web server protection, and network protection."
"It now controls all the security aspects of our web servers with Sophos UTM WAF."
"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 UTM's most valuable features are profiling and its simple configuration."
"Sophos UTM has improved the porting section. It has improved security by seeing the gaps. For example, when you discover that an entry has been using a certain application, with Sophos UTM acting as a Layer 7 firewall, you can block the application, not the port."
"The isolation of infected machines is a big feature. Also, the ability to detect external sources that change files on a file server is really big."
"The ease of use could be improved."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"I could not configure sFlow from the FortiGate graphical user interface. I realized that the sFlow configuration is available only from the CLI, and discovered that sFlow is not supported on virtual interfaces, such as VDOM links, IPsec, or GRE."
"There were quite a few problems with the stability of the system."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"Fortinet FortiGate can improve the integration with Active Directory. Additionally, I would like to have a Cloud Controller, such as they do in the Cisco Meraki solution."
"They should improve high CPU and memory usage that occurs."
"It is a very expensive program and there are additional costs despite the standard licensing fees."
"While today we can manage some scopes, there are still some segments in the OSI layer we cannot manage."
"Check Point CloudGuard is not a feature-centric product because Check Point concentrates on security."
"Regarding CloudGuard Network Security's integration with various resources like application gateways and application-based security groups, there's room for exploring dynamic access in those areas. A significant concern is the upgrade process. Unlike an in-place upgrade, upgrading the tool in Azure requires deploying a new resource, which can be hectic and less reliable. We have to spend something new to have the tool's latest version."
"With the incorporation of a lot of AI and machine learning, they can build some sort of a matrix for low-level threats or low-level things that require attention. There can be automation of those tasks so that we don't have to take more time and effort. There should be machine learning to eliminate level-one types of tasks."
"We utilize logging systems, and geolocation is crucial for us as some applications must only be accessible from our country. However, there have been occasional issues with this feature."
"Improvements needed include better integration with Azure features to match on-premises capabilities."
"We miss full blade support for all blades that are compatible with the cluster. Especially notable is the lack of support for Identity Awareness in active standby environments for customers. In our setup, transitioning to Connective clusters would be preferable for maintaining connections during failover situations."
"Sophos UTM could improve if there was no limitation on users."
"The five-factor authentication needs improvement."
"The management suite is easy and the agent is easy to develop."
"The technical support only communicates via email. I would prefer to communicate directly with someone."
"Sophos should be more user-friendly, have more dashboards, and an easier implementation."
"They could use more SSL VPN support."
"It's stable, but the reaction time of the GUI is terrible."
"I would like to see the SD-WAN feature improved."
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 5th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 121 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is rated 8.6, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security writes "Highly reliable, great visibility, and centralized management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is most compared with Azure Firewall, VMware NSX, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, Cisco Secure Firewall and Fortinet FortiGate-VM, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Check Point CloudGuard Network Security vs. Sophos UTM report.
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