We performed a comparison between Sophos UTM and Sophos XGS 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."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."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are it is one of the most mature firewalls in the UTM bundle."
"The most useful functionality of Fortinet FortiGate is the user interface, multiple engines, and their cloud with the latest integrations. Additionally, the Security Fabric tool is very good."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"Its administrative panel is very intuitive and simple. It is simpler than the other solutions that we had. As an administrator, we are always looking for the easiest solution to manage network policies. We are able to filter everything on our network and also use the VPN feature, which is important these days when people are working remotely during COVID."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution."
"We use the filtering feature the most. It has filtering and inbuilt securities. We can create customized rules to define which users can access a particular type of site. We can create policies inside the firewall."
"This version is stable. I don't have any issues with this solution, in our environment, it works well."
"It's a stable solution."
"So far, the solution has been problem-free."
"Sophos integrates seamlessly, and we don't even feel it is running in the background."
"It works well without any maintenance. So far, it has worked pretty well regardless of the traffic."
"It now controls all the security aspects of our web servers with Sophos UTM WAF."
"The initial configuration is straightforward thanks to the web GUI. In 30 minutes, you can have a running firewall with UTM protection enabled."
"Installing Sophos UTM is straightforward. The deployment itself doesn't take long, but you have to spend some time planning and waiting for the hardware to be delivered."
"Monitoring and reporting are areas that need improvement."
"The initial setup is very user-friendly because they have graphical user interface options and command line interface options. I would give the initial setup a rating of five out of five."
"The solution is cost-effective and easy to manage."
"Setup was straightforward. One person is enough for deployment."
"The most valuable features of Sophos XGS are the ease of use and powerful interface."
"The scalability of Sophos XGS is very good."
"The solution is very user-friendly, and the GUI is so good that I don't have to use the CLI. This eliminates the need for typing; clicking allows me to get to what I'm looking for."
"The threat management system and VPN are most valuable."
"Web filtering and intrusion detection are essential features. As system integrators, we also like the dashboard because it's easier to configure all the features."
"I think they need to improve more in order to be a competitor with the leaders of the field."
"There are just some services that aren't available. For example, the Ethernet or point-to-point protocols. They could add these services to their product offering - especially services for ISPs."
"With the reports, you can see it, and you can get good feelings so upper management can go, "Oh, wow. That looks pretty." However, it's very basic."
"The solution needs to improve its integration with cybersecurity."
"Some features of Fortinet FortiGate are actually fee enabled that are inconvenient for deploying in production. Other issues relate to isolation with Cisco products and your server."
"The solution can have more features in a single box that can be multi-applied to integrate everything."
"It is stable, but its stability can be improved."
"We have an issue with hotel guest vouchers."
"There is absolutely no support when using AWS. If you buy the on-premise Sophos solution, you get support."
"The management suite is easy and the agent is easy to develop."
"Sophos UTM could improve if there was no limitation on users."
"I would like to see Sophos UTM add support for all the new threat-detection technologies and the ability to respond to novel security threats that come along every day."
"Email spam filtering only works if you have an on-prem Exchange server. It doesn't interface with Office 365 like the XG model. That would be one feature that they could improve. They're not going to do it because they're trying to push us all to XG."
"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."
"Sophos UTM's firewall is a bit weak, and some of its features lack depth compared to other products like F5."
"Sophos UTM could improve the way the configuration has to be done. I have to do the configuration through the command line interface but if it could be done through the graphical user interface it would be much better."
"Sophos XGS's response to zero-day attacks could be improved."
"I rate Sophos' support five out of 10. It's sometimes difficult to contact them, and finding a solution is not easy."
"There are issues with some designs being able to work on high availability."
"There are some issues with conversion and user roles when upgrading to Cyberoam."
"When it comes to different interfaces there is some speed issue that can be improved in Sophos XGS."
"We'd always like the solution to be a bit less in terms of cost."
"The first time a person sets it up, they will need training."
"I feel Sophos should add more telemetry data to its products...Right now, I think there are only less than a dozen vendors or OEMs supported by Sophos."
Sophos UTM is ranked 3rd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews while Sophos XGS is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 62 reviews. Sophos UTM is rated 8.4, while Sophos XGS is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos XGS writes "Easy to use, simple to learn, and offers great reporting". Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Meraki MX, whereas Sophos XGS is most compared with Sophos XG, OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, WatchGuard Firebox and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Sophos UTM vs. Sophos XGS report.
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