We performed a comparison between Check Point VPN-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."I think that the UTM features are the most value, as it truly protects my infrastructure."
"What I like the most is the configuration and that it's simple, and straightforward to maintain."
"Its stability is the most valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL VPN, as it allows us to connect and it separates this product from other firewalls."
"The security features that they have are quite good. On top of that, their licensing model is quite nice where they don't charge you anything for the SD-WAN functionality for the firewall."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of configuration."
"Anti-Spam web content filterinG."
"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."
"Technical support has been good."
"VPN clients are easy to use and deploy."
"The product offers fairly good centralized administration and monitoring with decent capabilities that allow the administrator to have relevent control over devices."
"Its most outstanding feature is content filtering."
"Great interface and in-built help is very intuitive."
"I have found the solution easy to use and fully integrated."
"The valuable features of this solution are the VPN, load balancer, and the QoS for splitting the ISP band."
"So far, I'm happy that they have recently added a firewall role, so I feel a little more comfortable with the security. The threat management is good."
"The tool's most valuable feature is threat protection and DLP features. So far, basic DLP features like content protection and blocking. Furthermore, for remote users, features such as back filtering and application control are available, allowing for command and control from our side. It is very easy to understand policy applications."
"SD-WAN features should be added."
"The web application firewall reverse proxy is very good."
"It's a product that is in continuous improvement and is following what the customer is asking for. They are taking inputs and designing new releases specifically according to the client and their needs."
"The platform's interface could improve."
"I don't really have anything negative to say as far as Fortinet firewalls are concerned. If anything, they can support a user a little bit better. They can stop being so time-sensitive about how much time the support call has taken, and they can help you do it yourself."
"One of the problems I was having was with user mapping, and it is an issue for which I have escalated tickets with Fortinet support."
"Fortigate's hardware capacities could be improved."
"The firewall engine is not so strong as of now, in my opinion... My second concern is that, while they have Zero-day vulnerability and anti-malware features, the threat engine needs to be strengthened, its efficiency can be increased."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"Lacks training for new features."
"The search tool needs improvement. It's very difficult to search for policies right now."
"It should have excellent integration with the other security tools."
"Pricing is sometimes challenging, although it brings a lot of features."
"Every time we made a change, the policy took about three minutes to apply, and obviously, when there were emergency changes or changes that we needed that were escalated, they were not modified very, very quickly."
"The reporting from the file or reporting from mobile access needs improvement. The solution, in general, could use better reporting tools."
"SD-WAN needs to be improved because it often fails at the network security level."
"The product's technical support services could be better."
"Their updates can be faster and more regular."
"I can't use the product's application control feature, making it a disadvantage of the solution where improvements are required."
"The management console could be improved and the solution lacks good technical support."
"Support could be improved."
"For the moment, managing the Sophos interface is a little bit challenging."
"The reaction time of the GUI is terrible when compared to other manufacturers."
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Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 4 reviews while Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews. Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Sophos XG is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] writes "Very good IPS, anti-malware, 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 VPN-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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