We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW 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."Security, SD-WAN, and Streetscape are valuable features."
"Security management tool that's easy to integrate and easy to work with. No issues found with its stability and scalability."
"Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"Fortigate's most valuable feature is that it doesn't need a push policy when writing rules."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is URL filtering."
"The initial setup of Fortinet FortiGate was straightforward."
"The integration with Active Directory is one of the good features. Most of the customers are now looking for the Single Sign-on feature. So, being able to integrate Active Directory with the firewall is useful. It is also easy."
"It is quite easy to handle."
"While not being cheap, their pricing models are competitive."
"The tool has solid firmware with very few vulnerabilities."
"I have not had an infected machine behind the firewall since I first installed and started using NGFW."
"It is user-friendly and straightforward to manage, which simplifies our overall network security management."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The Check Point firewall features for Next Generation Firewalls are excellent."
"HTTP forwarding is something I haven't seen elsewhere."
"Check Point offers virtualized systems, making it easy to scale."
"The scalability is good."
"Stability-wise, I rate this solution a ten out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate this solution a ten out of ten."
"It's easy to use."
"I like the web filtering options."
"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."
"The management suite is easy and the agent is easy to develop."
"It is a stable product... I rate the solution's technical support a nine out of ten...The initial setup is quite easy because they have all the information on their website."
"An easy solution to learn because the graphics are very intuitive."
"Lacks sufficient security options."
"Their software support needs improvement. I would prefer to have better support for bug fixes. Sometimes, we open a ticket, and it is very difficult to get a solution. Specifically, we are not at all happy with their support for load balancing."
"There are some tiny bugs that sometimes affect the operations. In the past revision of it, there was a bug. Because of the bug, we had to downgrade the version. It happened only with the last revision."
"Fortinet should focus on enhancing the capabilities of FortiGate by consolidating its various products, such as FortiGate Cloud, FortiManager, and FortiAnalyzer."
"The platform's interface could improve."
"The solution can have more features in a single box that can be multi-applied to integrate everything."
"Fortinet FortiGate should improve the VPN tokens."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the logging and reporting. Additionally, the next-generation application's policies should be improved. When they were released they had bugs."
"There is nothing more that I need in terms of improvement."
"Including some sort of menu or grouping for VOIP would help the small business area that has limited support."
"The smart console is heavy."
"Check Point should improve services related to the cloud-based solution."
"I really want to see geo-blocking as a feature of NGFW."
"In our particular case, we have different web applications developed by the same organization, however, that requires a specialized protection element such as a WAF. Having this service or feature within the same solution would be very valuable."
"The documentation could be better."
"VMware is not supported by the platform."
"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."
"The solution needs better integration with captive portals and XGs."
"The interface configuration could be improved."
"The reporting could be a lot better."
"The solution's technical support for India needs to be improved."
"Sophos customer support could use some improvement."
"The scalability of the product is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"We need a better VPN client for the customers."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 103 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 37 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Check Point NGFW writes "Robust control and security that enables a comprehensive application 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 NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Azure Firewall and Cisco Secure Firewall, 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 NGFW vs. Sophos UTM report.
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