We performed a comparison between Check Point Power-1 [EOL] and Sophos UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features are ease of use, flexibility, and most of the configuration we can be done using the GUI. When we compare Fortinet FortiGate with other solutions the firewall policy are very easy to understand."
"The most valuable feature is the policy routing and application control."
"Easy to use support and licensing portal as well as activation process."
"The simplicity of the product is great. It's very easy to use, which is a compliment we get all the time in terms of feedback."
"Easy to implement, and it is also reliable."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"Fortinet FortiGate is scalable for our users. Right now, we have almost 70 users. We do not have any plan to increase our usage of FortiGate. For maintaining the firewall solution, one staff member is enough."
"Fortinet FortiGate is user-friendly and affordable."
"The VPN allows users to connect remotely and securely."
"The initial setup was easy."
"The UTM features are reasonably strong and the patterns are updated on a regular basis"
"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."
"Sophos is a unified solution. We have anti-virus protection, firewall rules, knotting, and DACC all in one box."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the firewall application and application control."
"What I like about Sophos UTM is that it improves my company's security. The solution is easy to set up, which I like, and it's very stable."
"We use Sophos UTM as our main firewall with all its features included. Mainly, it controls all of our network perimeter security: firewall, IDS/IPS, and web application firewall (including VoIP)."
"It should be more stable. There should be full integration within Fortinet products themselves as well as with other third-party products. Especially when you're not dealing with SIEM and the correlation of the security box, we want Fortinet to be able to share that information with as many other products as it can."
"I would like to see a more intuitive dashboard."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"The initial setup and configuration are not intuitive and require training."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"The solution needs to improve its integration with cybersecurity."
"The search tool needs improvement. It's very difficult to search for policies right now."
"Reporting is limited to providing an external appliance for improving the reporting capabilities of the FortiAnalyzer. It does not offer a central management and is also sold separably as an appliance."
"Multi-factor authentication would have been a plus in security at the time."
"Last year, Sophos had some major internal management changes that negatively impacted their support."
"The support could be better."
"VPN needs IKEv2, but it’s in the roadmap. Also, all new, cool features will only come to the new Sophos XG Firewall."
"It is a little too CPU resource intensive, so we would like to see improvements there."
"Sophos UTM could be simplified, and they can improve on the many other features, like SD-WAN and load balancing. Sophos UTM is missing a few features that their competitors have. For example, if you have multiple branches you would like to connect, the load balancing features aren't available on multilink. If we create a VPM for multiple LAN links, we cannot load balance the traffic."
"This product could use some improvement with web filtering. It takes a lot of time and effort to set up and maintain."
"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 classification segregation of applications lacks sufficient definition."
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Check Point Power-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 2 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Check Point Power-1 [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Check Point Power-1 [EOL] writes "Good intrusion prevention, firewall, and VPN 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 Power-1 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall.
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