We performed a comparison between Check Point CloudGuard Network Security 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."Provides good firewall security and has great VPN features."
"We are using the FortiGate 100D series. VPN, firewall, anti-malware, OTM, and intrusion prevention are useful features."
"This product is definitely scalable."
"One of the valuable features is a standardized OS."
"The Fortinet FortiGate local partners were good. I did not have direct contact with Fortinet support."
"Fortigate is very scalable to serve our customers' needs. We have scaled already from fifty to more than a hundred instances of Fortinet FortiGate. Around 20 staff are required for deployment and maintenance, mostly engineers."
"Their proxy-based inspection is responsive and secure."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"The solution could improve to have a DLP feature."
"We consolidated from three management consoles and three clusters to only one, which is a big improvement."
"The tool's most valuable features for us are threat prevention, HTTPS inspection, and the Anti-Bot blade. Threat prevention helps to protect our assets from threats. HTTPS inspection ensures secure communication, and the Anti-Bot blade is particularly helpful in detecting C2 servers, enhancing our ability to identify malicious activities and protect our network."
"It's a high-performance device. The network performance is also really good. We check how much time it takes for the servers. Our network performance has increased since using this solution."
"The tool's most valuable features are firewalls and IPS."
"The ease of administration with the cloud management extension and the cloud licensing model is valuable."
"It improves the availability of engineers to carry out projects."
"I like the tool's ability to manage cloud traffic locally without routing it through our data centers."
"All the features are valuable, in my opinion, but for us the most important features are the network security, application control, and web server protection. Sophos Sandstorm is another good feature off the top of my head."
"It's very easy to manage this solution."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"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 centralized security is very good."
"I like the Sophos UI. It interface has a more comfortable feel than the competitors."
"The most valuable features of Sophos XGS are a set of functionalities that are quite commendable, they call it synchronized security, where all the solutions share defense lines with each other."
"Setup was straightforward. One person is enough for deployment."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"The monitor and the visibility, in this proxy, is very weak."
"A couple of things I've seen that need improvement, especially in terms of a hard coding. The driver-level active moment really is out-of-the-box and we have to have contact the customer support and sometimes it is difficult to resolve."
"The main aspect of FortiGate that could be improved is load balancing. Our management team does not want to buy another appliance for only load balancing."
"The pricing could be reduced or include the first year warranty."
"I think they need to improve more in order to be a competitor with the leaders of the field."
"In the next release, maybe the documentation on how to use this solution could be improved."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"There are some usability issues we'd like to see improved."
"The licensing structure is unclear, so a transparent and flexible licensing structure would be preferable."
"We did not use the AWS Transit Gateway, and that's one of the things that we're currently using. I believe we will be working with Check Point again, in the near future, to implement it, once they start having proper support for a single customer with multiple accounts. When we were using them, we had to install Check Point on each and every single account."
"The operations require skilled manpower with extended experience of working with networking systems for better results."
"The API integration is complex, which is an area that should be improved."
"Lacks the ability to integrate with other security solutions."
"Its price is fair, but it can be more favorable."
"There is room for improvement in addressing bugs and support issues."
"Sophos XGS's response to zero-day attacks could be improved."
"We'd always like the solution to be a bit less in terms of cost."
"Level one technical support is not good at all and needs to be improved."
"The customer service response time can be improved."
"In Sophos, the user portal is not user-friendly."
"Compared to Fortinet, the cost is high."
"The application is a little slow; it takes five to ten seconds to respond to every click when configuring. If we need to do significant configuration, it can take a lot of time. This might be because we have a low-end machine, and it could be faster with a high-end one."
"In version 18 of Sophos XGS, the log details are not very good. However, in version 19 they are more detailed. The Fortinet FortiGate has better detail overall compared to Sophos XGS. They provide updates to the solution frequently, but they do not fix the problems that exist."
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 8th in Firewalls with 119 reviews while Sophos XGS is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 58 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is rated 8.6, while Sophos XGS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security writes "The solution has good threat emulation, threat extraction, and reporting features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos XGS writes "Highly stable, scalable, and priced well". Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is most compared with Azure Firewall, VMware NSX, Cisco Secure Firewall, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, whereas Sophos XGS is most compared with Sophos XG, OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, WatchGuard Firebox and Meraki MX. See our Check Point CloudGuard Network Security vs. Sophos XGS report.
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