We performed a comparison between Check Point Power-1 [EOL], Fortinet FortiGate, and Sophos Cyberoam UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The VPN allows users to connect remotely and securely."
"The multi-tenancy feature is most valuable. It integrates very well with FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer."
"Overall, the pricing of the solution is very good. The product offers good value."
"The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"It performs very well."
"The IPS is good. It protect my network from attackers."
"FortiGate improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"I think that the UTM features are the most value, as it truly protects my infrastructure."
"It is very flexible to use."
"Web application filtering eases internet access control."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the solution is easy to configure for users."
"It is very easy to use."
"The solution's web filtering is an important feature for us in our company."
"In terms of features and user-friendliness, the solution is good. It’s very stable. The solution is scalable. In Sophos Cyberoam UTM, the most valuable features are web and application filtering, routing functionalities, and VPN. It has helped us manage the bandwidth."
"Web and content filtering are valuable in preventing people from abusing the network and pushing up the bandwidth price."
"Its portal is user-friendly. I am able to manage the user data and access control through this device."
"Multi-factor authentication would have been a plus in security at the time."
"The setup is pretty complex and not easy to implement."
"Some of the filtering is not robust, you can escape it with a VPN. Some of the users bypass some of the filters. It catches some but it also misses some, that area could be improved. It's functioning reasonably but there's room for improvement in that area."
"To some degree, it's almost a question as to why some of this stuff isn't simpler. For example, for an AP deployment, while it's integrated, the number of steps that you have to go through in order to get the AP up, seems like a lot."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"In some cases, its initial setup could be hard for customers."
"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."
"Security is a continuous process. In every product, there is a requirement for improvement. Its pricing should also be improved according to Indian market requirements. They must also improve on the reporting part. Its reporting can be more precise. If we can get a real-time report in a specific format, it will be helpful for customers to know about the current status of their security."
"The improvement is related to logs. Instead of the CLI, we should be able to have more insights into the logs of the firewall in the GUI."
"Sometimes, during part of the configuration, if you don't have a lot of technical knowledge, then you may struggle a bit to configure it."
"Hence, it needs to be easier to configure rules using the solution."
"The product needs to improve its pricing."
"VPN configuration is not very swift."
"It isn't missing anything."
"The data support response time should be improved."
"I have problems with the email filtering. Emails pass through without any filtering affecting them. When I get back to them and tell them this is the issue, they check everything and say it is not in their database signature and they have to update it. But you know, by that time, my user has already opened it."
"Smaller CR15 units don’t have a hard disc or built in IView software. These units could do with that feature."
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