We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate, SonicWall TZ, and Sophos Cyberoam UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."It blocks the vulnerabilities that can negatively impact us."
"Easy to use support and licensing portal as well as activation process."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is URL filtering."
"The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"User-friendly and affordable security solution that's recommended for SMB customers. This solution has good technical support."
"The most valuable feature is the FortiManager for centralized management."
"You can create multiple Virtual Domains (VDOMs), which are treated as separate firewall instances."
"Its performance in fulfilling our requirements has been satisfactory."
"The VPN is quite useful for us, as well as the ATP."
"Technical support is good."
"The product is easy to deploy."
"The network security is great."
"The best thing about the product is the very good threat prevention output."
"The most valuable features are unified threat management which provides security intelligence and the VPN for both site-to-site and remote access."
"SonicWall TZ think it's a good, solid, and stable product."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The solution has good load balancers."
"Content filtering, as this enables me to control that which employees can view at different time quotas."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"I'm more inclined towards the conventional firewall. So for me, I'm more geared towards the standard firewall type functionalities as well as the web application firewall because that seems to work fine."
"The product, itself, doesn't seem to have any bugs or glitches."
"The solution's web filtering is an important feature for us in our company."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM is used for perimeter security, web filtering, intrusion prevention and as a VPN."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is the SD-WAN gateway."
"I think they need to improve more in order to be a competitor with the leaders of the field."
"I don't like that anything more than very basic reporting is not included."
"Fortinet already improved FortiGate, but in the current market, many brands of security devices have improved together. Fortinet still needs to catch up with market standards. Fortinet is lacking in features in comparison to competitors."
"Its filtering is sometimes too precise or strict. We sometimes have to bypass and authorize some of the sites, but they get blocked. We know that they are trusted sites, but they are blocked, and we don't know why."
"The captive portal could be improved."
"The support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having a frequent ask questions(FAQ) area for people to receive quick answers to popular questions. Additionally, it would be beneficial to have an SMS notification feature. For example, if you cannot access your email you could receive an SMS message."
"The solution lacks multi-language support."
"Pricing could be lowered slightly."
"User interface could be improved."
"The dashboard needs to be improved."
"I'd like to have cloud management at no additional cost. Unfortunately, leveraging SonicWall's cloud management capabilities is cost-prohibitive, so we don't use it. They should have a reasonable subscription or offer it to us at no cost as an MSP."
"The technology in this particular version is very old."
"The log sections could be done more clearly."
"The solution's pricing could be made cheaper."
"It needs more robust self-help documentation along with examples and things to watch out for."
"The technical support response time could be faster."
"Hence, it needs to be easier to configure rules using the solution."
"I would like to see real-time alerts on traffic insights."
"The product’s pricing has increased by approximately 45% in four months. This particular area needs improvement."
"I would like to see improvements in the development of reports. The process needs to be made simple."
"Sometimes, during part of the configuration, if you don't have a lot of technical knowledge, then you may struggle a bit to configure it."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"The following could be improved: Web Filtering using wildcards; clarity regarding the firewall rules; granular reporting features."
