We performed a comparison between Sangfor NGAF 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."FortiGate Secure SD-WAN includes best-of-breed next-generation firewall (NGFW) security, SD-WAN, advanced routing, and WAN optimization capabilities, delivering a security-driven networking WAN edge transformation in a unified offering."
"The interface is very good."
"The simplicity of the product is great. It's very easy to use, which is a compliment we get all the time in terms of feedback."
"It is useful for protecting and segregating the internal networks from the internet. Most of our customers also use the FortiGate client to connect to their offices by using the VPN client, and of course, they usually activate the antivirus, deep inspection, and intrusion prevention services. They are also using it for web filtering and implementing various policies dealing with forwardings, NAT, etc."
"The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"The solution is very, very easy to use."
"FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"It's very easy to set up, it's very easy to make policies and, for an organization, that means you don't need IT expert in firewalls. You just need to have somebody who knows a little bit of IT, and that's it. With other products, you need someone with a "Masters" degree in firewalls."
"You might try Sangfor if you are on a tight budget. The price is affordable, and Sangfor offers a lot of features. We don't have any complaints about Sangfor."
"The built-in features function as intended, providing exceptional value."
"In four steps one can configure the entire firewall."
"Sangfor has the best capabilities for securing connections, securing web browsers, securing servers, and general threat protection."
"It seems to be a durable, stable product."
"In our hospital, Sangfor NGAF works well for us in terms of ensuring confidentiality and availability, which are crucial in the healthcare industry."
"I think Sangfor NGAF is more valuable than Cisco products because of its simplicity and ease of management. If I compare it with Palo Alto and Cisco, both are quite complex products. And if I compare it with FortiGate firewalls from Fortinet, I have also used all these products. Fortinet and Sangfor NGAF are similar products because the applications behind the application and policy layers are almost identical."
"The VPN connectivity feature is really nice."
"Scaling out cannot be easier, as there are many migration paths."
"The most valuable feature is that it is easy to administer."
"Sophos UTM is the simplest of these products to setup."
"It improved bandwidth utilization and provided link load balancing features for internet and intranet lease lines."
"It now controls all the security aspects of our web servers with Sophos UTM WAF."
"We've found the technical support to be helpful."
"It helped to connect our satellite offices to the main Amazon infrastructure in a circular way."
"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."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding enhancements to FortiMail, FortiSOAR, and FortiDeceptor."
"Cisco Meraki products are rising very quickly in the cloud and the connected era. Meraki products offer much better ROI, upgradability, and manageability."
"The Web-filter in this solution is not very good."
"Fortigate's hardware capacities could be improved."
"The product does need better support in the cloud environment. It's not exactly cloud-native right now."
"They should make the rule sets more understandable for the end user. When you're trying to explain to somebody how a computer network is secured, sometimes it's difficult for an end user or customer to understand. If there was a way to make the terminology more accessible to the end user, the set up could be easier. They should translate the technical jargon to an easily relatable and understandable conversation for the end user, the customer, that would be brilliant. Particularly in an environment where the IT structure is audited regularly, there's always pressure from the auditor to up the standards and up the security and you get your USCERT's that come out and there's a warning about this and the customer will want to lock out so much and when you apply it they run into issue where they can't search the internet or print to their remote office. Of course they can't print to your remote office, they just locked it up. They should make the language more understandable for the customer. If there's a product out there that made the jargon understandable to John Q. Public, I would buy that."
"The user interface could be improved to make it less confusing and easier to set up."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The web interface needs to be improved, making it more user-friendly."
"Sangfor NGAF could improve the policies and default criteria. They could be much better."
"The reporting and log management could be improved."
"The solution has too many bugs and these slow down the implementation."
"They need to increase the number of ports in the firewall."
"Occasional issues with breaches which are dealt with expediently."
"The tool is expensive."
"The solution should be able to work in a hybrid setup."
"In short, the UI and UX are the areas of improvement in Sophos UTM and similar solutions compared to Palo Alto."
"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."
"The solution is not scalable."
"There's an issue that when we deploy UTM on fiber, it automatically upgrades to the latest version without giving an option to stay on the current one."
"The solution needs better integration with captive portals and XGs."
"When we call support, we get put on hold for a long time."
"In Sophos UTM there is always a problem with the routing tables. If you want to see the routing table, you have to use the UI. You can't do it via a web browser. The routing table is better in Fortinet."
"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."
Sangfor NGAF is ranked 20th in Firewalls with 31 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Sangfor NGAF is rated 8.0, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Sangfor NGAF writes "Affordable, easy to configure firewall with fast, responsive support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Sangfor NGAF is most compared with Sophos XG, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Netgate pfSense, Check Point NGFW and SonicWall NSa, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Sangfor NGAF vs. Sophos UTM report.
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