We performed a comparison between Check Point Power-1 [EOL] and Sophos XG based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The most important feature, normally for small business customers, is link load balancing."
"The notable features that I have found most valuable are that it includes the antivirus, and also IPS, and even SD-WAN."
"Initial setup is straightforward. There weren't too many issues with setting it up. It takes one hour or so."
"The features that prevent internet connections, the filtering are the most valuable because we did not have any internet protection before."
"The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"Customers are more inclined towards FortiGate because of application control, web filtering, and anti-spam features. The support from the FortiGate team is good, and price-wise, it is affordable."
"The VPN allows users to connect remotely and securely."
"The solution is very easy to use and straightforward."
"The VPN features and its capabilities are great."
"Web publishing is important, as well as the importance of the antivirus patch."
"The most valuable feature is web filtering."
"The SL VPNs are the most valuable feature. I have a lot of systems out of the head office that need to connect to the local networks, and they all connect wirelessly via the Sophos VPN client."
"As a security solution, it's a very good security solution."
"The solution has good performance and is easy to use."
"It is very user friendly and easy to manage from the administrative point of view. It is good, reliable, and easy to implement."
"Monitoring and reporting could be better."
"Sometimes you do need to know some CLI commands, so it's a bit harder for technicians or new people that don't know it."
"The firmware needs improvement because there are bugs when a new release comes through. Sometimes, the configuration changes, and it's a bit harder to see where the fail is. The first time that you have the firmware, it tends to have some issues, and it's better to wait a bit to update the equipment."
"From a reporting perspective, there's room for improvement. They're providing FortiAnalyzer through which one can get some enhancements, but the visibility and reporting still need slight improvement."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"MTBF: Hardware failure is more common when compared to SonicWall or Cisco ASA."
"The central management for the FortiGate Fortinet Firewall needs improvement. They have the manager to do the essential management for both SD-WAN and for the security policy. They should also improve the SD-WAN function."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"Multi-factor authentication would have been a plus in security at the time."
"They can simplify its interface so that it is mostly drag-and-drop. There was an SQL injection attack on some Sophos devices. They just need to harden their devices a little bit so that they can't be hacked very easily."
"The logging side of it could definitely be better. Some of the logging lacks, and the information that they provide you, especially in the spam filtering section, could be better."
"Everything is working as expected at this moment, but the anti-spam solution in Sophos XG needs to be improved. It needs more granular features and more stability. The anti-spam solution currently doesn't have many features, and we would like to have more features. At this moment, there is no expression filter for anti-spam. We need something to be able to filter subjects or attachments in emails based on the keyword. Sometimes, there is an issue with anti-spam, and Sophos XG suddenly stops processing incoming or outgoing emails. The only solution for this issue is to restart the appliance. Their support should be improved. It takes a long time to escalate a support case from level one to level two."
"The UI needs improvement because it can be a little weird at times."
"In the Firewall, the Intrusion Prevention System can be improved."
"The main problem with Sophos XG today is that it doesn't have a feature where you actually know the quality of an international link, which would allow us to we know if the link is operational or not. We need more information. It's losing packets on the network. It's high latency. So, we need more information to know if the link is really bad or really good, and today, we will only know if it's working and this just isn't enough."
"There are issues with electricity with this solution."
"Sophos can definitely improve with the interoperability between solutions."
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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 XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews. Check Point Power-1 [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Sophos XG is rated 8.2. 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 XG writes "Easy to use and deploy with an improved pricing structure in place". Check Point Power-1 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Sophos XG is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS, SonicWall TZ and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls.
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