We performed a comparison between Azure 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 features that I have found most valuable are the SD-WAN and their IP4 policy."
"The next-generation firewall is great."
"FortiGate improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"FortiGate has a strong security topic which allows all of the Fortinet devices to communicate and share information which makes their security more powerful."
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"The product offers very good security."
"The pipe filter application is an outstanding feature."
"The solution is very, very easy to use."
"The firewall policy control, URL content control, and antivirus are all the most valuable aspects. Threat prevention is as well quite good."
"The feature that I have found the most valuable is the control over the network permissions and the network."
"The solution can autoscale."
"Azure Firewall's feature that I have found most valuable is its scalability."
"One of the notable advantages of Azure Firewall is its user-friendly interface, which closely resembles or shares similarities with other Azure components."
"The most valuable feature is the integration into the overall cloud platform."
"Network filtering is valuable. The scalability capability from the cloud-native service helps us a lot because it simplifies our day-to-day maintenance activity."
"All its features are good. That's why we recommend it."
"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."
"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."
"Good basic firewall functions with advanced firewall scanning."
"The implementation with the AWS environment was good."
"Efficient and effective - it's easy to separate rules."
"The initial configuration is straightforward thanks to the web GUI. In 30 minutes, you can have a running firewall with UTM protection enabled."
"If a computer does get infected the Sophos appliance lets us know via it's Advanced Threat Protection so we can get a much faster response time."
"Has great security features and does a good job of protecting the network."
"I would like to see improvements with the antivirus and IPS as they are not working properly all the time."
"I would suggest that Fortinet add sandboxing to their solution."
"The support structure needs to be improved because every time we contact them, there is a delay in the response."
"Some of the features in the graphical user interface do not work, which requires that we used the command-line-interface."
"In terms of what could be improved, the SD-WAN is quite difficult, because if you install the new box, 15 is okay, but if you change from an old configuration, if there is already configuration and a policy when you change to SD-WAN, you must change the whole policy that you see in the interface."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"Scalability for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be improved. SD-WAN security for this solution also needs some improvement."
"The performance could be a bit better. Right now, I find it to be lacking. Having good performance is very important for our work."
"The solution should incorporate features similar to competitors like split tunneling."
"There is room for further integration of AI into the system."
"It would be nice to be able to create groupings for servers and offer groups of IP addresses."
"They can improve the pricing of Azure Firewall."
"It needs a lot of improvement, especially on intruder detection. They are working hard on that."
"The threat intelligence aspect of this particular firewall is not at par with other providers."
"The tool needs to improve the onboarding and transition process for on-prem users."
"Azure Firewall should have a free trial version for new users so that they can evaluate it before deploying it."
"With Sophos UTM, there is a general rule in the firewall when the country blocking can block some countries from accessing your data. In the current version, you still need to add it by putting in the IP range. This feature would be helpful for administrators and it gives them the advantage to block stuff in less time."
"The technical support team’s response time could be improved."
"Sophos customer support could use some improvement."
"Stay away from the wireless models, since you cannot put them in HA. They start to give you some weird issues once you start getting into multiple SSIDs and networks."
"I would like them to move from the Classic Load Balancer to the Network Load Balancer. This would make it easier to do certain things with Amazon. They are able to do some enhancements with Network Load Balancer that they are unable to do with Classic Load Balancer."
"Finding information about Sophos’ sizing guidelines can actually be difficult. Also, Sophos does not make it clear what they mean by “users” when you are sizing a firewall, which then leads to undersized implementations."
"The solution needs better integration with captive portals and XGs."
"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."
Azure Firewall is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 33 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Azure Firewall writes "Easy to use and configure but could be more robust". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Azure Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Netgate pfSense, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Azure Firewall vs. Sophos UTM report.
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