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."The most valuable features are simplicity, management, and that it's constantly evolving."
"Valuable features include the Web Application Firewall, and it even has DLP (data leak prevention)."
"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."
"Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the different types of profiling. It has been the most effective for me. The WAF and the antivirus profile are the most effective in network protection."
"I think that the UTM features are the most value, as it truly protects my infrastructure."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the rules and quality of service."
"Fortigate represents a really scalable way of delivering perimeter network security, some level of layer 7 security, WAF, and also a way to create a meshed ADVPN solution."
"While not being cheap, their pricing models are competitive."
"The product is very user-friendly."
"One of the most advantageous features of Check Point firewall is its multi-interface capability."
"Check Point helps a lot with automatization which definitely reduces the effort to maintain the environment."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The rules are very easy to deploy and can be optimized pretty quickly."
"The detection rate for any cyberattacks/suspicious activity is very high (more than 90%)."
"The solution offers very good central management, which saves time and is hassle-free."
"The most valuable feature is the IPS. It also protects us from malware."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Brings greater visibility into the network traffic coming inside and passing away from the company."
"It has helped by identifying threats within the company. If there are computers or servers that are compromised, then we are able to identify them right away in the system."
"Sophos UTM's best feature is synchronized security."
"They are all good, but most-used are Network Protection and Web Filtering."
"The product is extremely intuitive."
"The solution is stable."
"In the balance between links feature normally you can just choose one option to balance. It would be better for the solution to have more than one option, preferably three."
"Fortinet FortiGate can improve the integration with Active Directory. Additionally, I would like to have a Cloud Controller, such as they do in the Cisco Meraki solution."
"It can be a little bit more user-friendly in terms of policy definition and implementation. It seems a little bit complicated, and it could be simplified."
"The license renewal process, annual renewal price, and the web application firewall features should be improved."
"The solution lacks sufficient filtering."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"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."
"Monitoring and reporting could be better."
"There have been a few requests/issues about the Identity Awareness feature."
"The exterior of the physical device can be improved with the use of a display and not just simple lights."
"When we hit a bug, the support team recommends some hotfix, and if we upgrade to that, we have to uninstall it before we apply some newer jumbo hotfix."
"Scalability should be improved."
"There needs to be advanced troubleshooting."
"The study material for Check Point needs to be improved, as well as the cost for certification."
"It could be easier to access the installation of the Hostfix for VSX solutions. The CLI commands help us understand how virtual firewalls behave in terms of processor, memory, and other aspects. More graphic visualizations of CPUSE commands would be a welcome improvement, and Check Point could expand scripts to run within the solution for multiple tasks."
"The area where Check Point can improve is the antivirus, as it only provides a small number of updates for it. Updates should be more frequent."
"The initial setup was straightforward. The full deployment takes approximately two days which could be simplified to reduce the time. The major part of the process is the configuration and the policy setup."
"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."
"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."
"Monitoring and reporting are areas that need improvement."
"The integration capabilities could be better."
"The virus updates will always depend on new viruses that are discovered. Maybe they can send a notification or a reminder for update time."
"There is absolutely no support when using AWS. If you buy the on-premise Sophos solution, you get support."
"The five-factor authentication needs improvement."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 275 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Check Point NGFW writes "Good antivirus protection and URL filtering with very good user identification capabilities". 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, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Azure 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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