We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate and Sophos XGS 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 can use our devices to check all of the perimeters. It secures email websites."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and there are several operating systems that can include the hardware capacities. In the newer releases, the resources were more useful because they were included in the operating system."
"The web tutor and automatic rules by schedule are good features."
"Fortinet offers the latest versions to cater to the needs of enterprises."
"The main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"The next-gen features, the unified threat management capabilities are something that just about everybody is interested in at this point."
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"The reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"Sophos XGS's most valuable feature is content filtering."
"Sophos XGS' most valuable features are protection and intrusion prevention detection."
"The most valuable features of Sophos XGS are a set of functionalities that are quite commendable, they call it synchronized security, where all the solutions share defense lines with each other."
"The solution is very user-friendly, and the GUI is so good that I don't have to use the CLI. This eliminates the need for typing; clicking allows me to get to what I'm looking for."
"It is scalable."
"Spam filtering is what I love most about XGS."
"Setup was straightforward. One person is enough for deployment."
"The solution is stable."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the logging and reporting. Additionally, the next-generation application's policies should be improved. When they were released they had bugs."
"The feedback that I have received is that the performance could be better, and the user experience is not as good compared to a previous solution we used. It could be more user-friendly. Of course, it still works fine for our operations."
"At first glance, the interface for the device is very confusing."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"Reporting is limited to providing an external appliance for improving the reporting capabilities of the FortiAnalyzer. It does not offer a central management and is also sold separably as an appliance."
"The product does need better support in the cloud environment. It's not exactly cloud-native right now."
"They should improve high CPU and memory usage that occurs."
"It's my understanding that more of the current generation features could be brought in. There could be more integration with EDRs, for example."
"The solution could be easier to manage and configure."
"Sophos XGS could improve the automation system. It could be better if there was some level of automation, attacks automation, meaning if this happens, then it automatically executes a particular process."
"Level one technical support is not good at all and needs to be improved."
"Sophos XGS could be improved by adding a built-in hyper-converged solution."
"Sophos XGS could improve the price."
"Having previously worked with the Astaro Security Gateway platform (now called Sophos UTM), I can attest that the configuration and dashboard for this older platform was easier to manage than that of both Sophos XG and XGS. If it were up to me, I would prefer to go back to the older SG dashboard."
"The VPN capability needs some improvement in Sophos XGS."
"Sophos configurations are a bit complex."
Fortinet FortiGate is ranked 2nd in Firewalls with 306 reviews while Sophos XGS is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 58 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate is rated 8.4, while Sophos XGS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate writes "It's a reliable solution that's easy to install and cheaper than competitors ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos XGS writes "Highly stable, scalable, and priced well". Fortinet FortiGate is most compared with Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX and Check Point NGFW, whereas Sophos XGS is most compared with Sophos XG, OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, WatchGuard Firebox and Meraki MX. See our Fortinet FortiGate vs. Sophos XGS report.
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Hi Rahul,
I'm an IT consultant, specializing in networking and firewalls. Actually, I'm implementing Fortigates 100F and Sophos XGS2100 in customers' infrastructures.
They are two big advantages for Sophos XGS:
1) The second CPU XStream, dedicated to firewalling and UTM functions, like Web Filtering, Web Application Firewall, IPS, etc.: https://news.sophos.com/en-us/...
2) The Sophos "Synchronized Security", interaction with the client protection, centralized in a cloud console: https://www.sophos.com/en-us/c...
With this Xstream processor (ASIC), an XGS2100 is more powerful than a Fortigate 100F...and no way with pricing, Sophos is cheaper.
Regards,
A.Rastello
Hi Rahul, I agree with the answers from Michael and Alexandre, the most important decision to take is to determine what your requirements are.
I have the Sophos XGS 2100 firewall in our customers' environment and its performance is much more powerful, for the reason of the Xstream processor that takes a little time to scan HTTPS protocols and apply TLS policies over the connections.
We have a lot of Sophos firewalls in the field. I agree to the answer from Alexandre. The Sophos Firewall is the more powerfull firewall. But maybe it's a good idea to explore the XGS 3100 because of the hardware like 10gbit.
With kind regards,