We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall and Sophos Cyberoam UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We have been able to offer several services to customers in a single box."
"Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"The feature I like most is the SD-WAN. It allows you to manage more than one ISP at the same time. And there is a high-availability mode, so if one of your ISPs is down, you still have a backup."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is good to use, and most importantly, the pricing. The customer especially likes the discount when they trade up or something like that."
"The most valuable feature is the bundled subscription, which is IPS, TV and web filtering."
"The security on offer is very good."
"The interface is very good."
"The most valuable feature is the FortiManager for centralized management."
"This solution helped us to identify the key areas where we need to focus to block traffic that is malicious to our organization."
"IPS and Snort are very important because they also differentiate Cisco from other vendors and competitors."
"This solution has good security, and it's a good product. You can trust Cisco, and there's support as well, which is really good."
"FMC is very good in terms of giving a lot of visibility into what the firewall is seeing, what it's stopping, and what it's letting through. It lets the administrator have a little bit of knowledge of what's coming in or out of the device. It's excellent."
"We are mostly using it for remote access, so the remote access feature is the most valuable, but all other features are also needed and required. It is also a very straightforward and reliable solution."
"The main thing that I love the most is its policy and objects. Whenever I try to give access to a user, I can create an object via group creation in the object fields. This way, I am not able to enter a user in the policy repeatedly."
"The most valuables feature of this product are given by the comprehensive VPN solutions it offers and its tools for troubleshooting and debugging."
"The solution offers very easy configurations."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The solution is easy to integrate."
"The security capabilities are okay."
"The firewall feature has different branches, such as extended firewalls."
"The product is a simple and user-friendly UTM that can handle accounting, reporting, firewall, IPS, and antivirus for industries."
"The performance has been good overall."
"The solution is excellent for web and application filtering and remote access with the VPN."
"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."
"The pricing could always be better."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution. However, my issue is the performance only. When I use all the profiles, this affects the performance. From the beginning, I should have had a better sizing of the box."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"The support structure needs to be improved because every time we contact them, there is a delay in the response."
"The routing capability on the FortiGate devices has room for improvement."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"I don't like that anything more than very basic reporting is not included."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"Maybe the dashboard could be a bit better."
"Bandwidth allocation needs improvement."
"Make the IPS baked-in."
"ASDM can be improved."
"It's mainly the UI and the management parts that need improvement. The most impactful feature when you're using it is the user interface and the user experience."
"I would like to see the inclusion of a protocol that can be used to protect databases."
"Tech support could not answer all of our questions. I had to do research on the web to solve my issues."
"Cisco should work on ASDM. One of the biggest drawbacks of Cisco ASA is ASDM GUI. Cisco should improve the ASDM GUI. The configuration through ASDM is really difficult as compared to CLI. Sometimes when you are doing the configuration in ASDM, it suddenly crashes. It also crashes while pushing a policy. Cisco should really work on this."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could have a more advanced reporting function."
"I would like to see a better content management pack and also the website searching should be better."
"The solution's pricing could be a problem for some small businesses."
"The following could be improved: Web Filtering using wildcards; clarity regarding the firewall rules; granular reporting features."
"Cyberoam configuration is done through the browser, which is one of the places that viruses spread."
"The product fails to provide proper reports, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The product’s pricing has increased by approximately 45% in four months. This particular area needs improvement."
"The solution had a feature to import users from a CSV file. However, the latest version does not have that option."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall writes "Highlights and helps us catch Zero-day vulnerabilities traveling across our network". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Cyberoam UTM writes "Stable and has a straightforward setup; reporting is fast and easy". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Juniper SRX Series Firewall, whereas Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos UTM, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Sophos XG and Untangle NG Firewall. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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