We performed a comparison between Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] and Sophos XG based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The product is very stable, easy to troubleshoot, and configure, so it has reduced the time it takes for support."
"The ability to set up remote systems is the most valuable feature."
"The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"Fortinet has a very good solution for Secure SD-WAN. One very good feature is that they have robust and simple FortiOS through which they provide all solutions. That's their strength. There's not much complexity involved with the Secure SD-WAN solution of Fortinet as compared to Cisco's solution, which has a lot of flexibility but complexity also comes with that flexibility."
"The network security and cloud security are most valuable."
"The most valuable features are that it is very simple to configure and to manage."
"What's most important is the ease of use."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"The most outstanding feature is being able to centralize each of the functions in a single device."
"It safeguards against cyber attacks."
"Firewalls help us a lot in controlling traffic on our network and preventing unauthorized access."
"The most valuable feature for us was to implement negligent functionality, to direct functionality to viewer control and application control so we could disconnect, and at the same time, we installed checkpoints. We disconnected our proxy."
"The databases and its signatures are its most important features."
"We can create a domain to separate and segregate some functions, some services."
"The UTM platform has been the most valuable."
"It provides visibility and drives organizational security."
"The VPN access for users is also a great thing, especially nowadays when working from home."
"The most significant aspect is the protection it offers."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the flexibility of it, it's pretty versatile."
"The solution offers a good firewall endpoint and email encryption."
"If you want to install antivirus and firewalling on endpoints, then Sophos is the best option."
"The SD-WAN feature stands out as the most valuable aspect."
"We've deployed quite a number for our users and our customers, and the feedback is quite positive in terms of management and also administration."
"The solution seems to be very easy to use."
"There are some problems that support cannot give you a logical reason as to why it happened. For example, I had a case where I was dealing with a WhatsApp application that was giving issues. Technical support gave more than one reason it could be giving issues, but none of them solved the problem. Eventually I solved the problem, but it was far from the solutions that support had given."
"Some features of Fortinet FortiGate are actually fee enabled that are inconvenient for deploying in production. Other issues relate to isolation with Cisco products and your server."
"Its reporting capabilities can be improved. It should have some out-of-the-box reporting capabilities and some degree of customization. The basic reporting that it currently has is not sufficient to create more usable reports. It needs some sort of out-of-the-box reporting. They try to make customers purchase FortiAnalyzer for this kind of reporting, which is an additional cost. Other firewall vendors, such as SonicWall and Sophos, provide this sort of reporting without any additional cost."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"For the migration, everyone has a firewall in use and I am selling Fortinet. Typically, I am replacing another firewall. Previously, there was a tool available to convert configurations from one firewall, such as Palo Alto, to Fortinet, but this tool is no longer free. If it could be made free again, it would be very beneficial."
"FortiGate support could do some improvements on their IPv6 configuration. Right now it's still in the very early stage for utilizing in an enterprise level network environment."
"The debugging and troubleshooting has room for improvement."
"I feel that the reporting needs to be improved."
"While the technical support is good, the Indian level technical support could use an upgrade."
"I am not able to see a demo."
"The interface needs improvement."
"Some features that could be improved are advanced threat protection, sandboxing, and vulnerability management."
"What has been the issue of firewalls is they ask me for policies and content filtering application control and all these features that are now part of Harmony."
"The solution could be improved if there was a better way to report. The reporting functionality is not really good. Even though it's not the major function. Maybe adding a way to make a custom report."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"Specifically on the user experience, sometimes the set up of things, such as the VPN SSL, takes a lot of time to load and a lot of time to get up and running on every session."
"Their support is fairly good, and they come back to me. I've had an issue once or twice where I couldn't understand what the support person was saying because those calls were probably routed to India. They were a bit difficult to understand, but it is generally not an issue."
"The installation could be faster and is longer than that of other solutions, lasting more than a month instead of five minutes."
"The management console could be improved and the solution lacks good technical support."
"The user interface could be improved and more bandwidth management would be helpful."
"They need to improve the SD-WAN feature."
"There's an IP address delivery for our VPN client and a limited range of IP addresses. So this is a problem in the latest firmware release, but rather than using homework scenarios, we need a lot of VPN clients."
"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."
"Could have a more simplified functionality for users."
Earn 20 points
Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 19 reviews while Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews. Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] is rated 8.2, while Sophos XG is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] writes "Great firewalls, VPN, and Intrusion prevention 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 UTM-1 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Sophos XG is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS, SonicWall TZ and Meraki MX.
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