We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiOS and Sophos XG 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."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 most valuable features are the policies, filtering, and configuration."
"The license management is very valuable. You can get a new license each year, or you can enroll every two to four years. You can get the logs, and you will get the information on the risk in your network and the entire organization. With this information, you can take action on your actives, computers, or devices. You can bring your own device as an SSE."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are it is one of the most mature firewalls in the UTM bundle."
"You can purchase switches and you don't need to do anything with them. You just put in the firewall and the switches get all the policies and rules that you already have in the firewall. With Fortinet, you just connect the FortiSwitch to the Fortinet and that's it."
"The most valuable feature of FortiGate is FortiView which provides proactive monitoring."
"The dashboard I have found the most valuable in Fortinet FortiGate."
"Some of the key features of the solution is that it has good reporting, you can receive many details from the connection, for example, clients and website information."
"The interface is easy to understand, so when there are threats you get alerts. It's quite intuitive, but if you are ever confused they have instructional videos. For example, if you don't understand a graph there's a link to a video that explains what the graph means. It makes it very user-friendly."
"Fortinet has optimized the WAN environment for connecting users to the application."
"Performance-wise, I think FortiOS is much better than its Juniper counterpart. Based on our actual experience and performance metrics, FortiOS-based products are much better than Juniper."
"FortiOS' most valuable features are management, security, and easy updates with no downtime."
"The user experience is great. The graphical user interface is also good."
"The solution is very easy to configure and has a good interface, plus it offers more configuration options than other vendors."
"Compared to other firewalls, the segmentation is much easier in FortiGate."
"All networks are security-driven, we get throughputs and security. We feel that the people at Fortinet are easy to deal with from a support standpoint. If they need to jump in and help us, they're very willing to do that. Their email filtering, their data loss prevention, their intrusion prevention, type of products in the newest OSs has been outstanding."
"The user interface is very good. It's already quite simple and easy to use."
"We found the initial setup to be straightforward."
"Content filtering and intrusion prevention are most valuable. Our customers are fully satisfied with the performance of Sophos. It has all the features that they require in a firewall."
"We get good usage out of the features. It has enabled us to gain popularity. It has great features."
"There are many features. VPN, firewalling, and intrusion detection are the main features that are most useful for us at this time."
"It has a very friendly interface like the Cyberoam iNG units, it has customizable policies, it has proper templates that you can even modify, and you can customize the rules, down to each single user."
"Sophos XG has cybersecurity. It integrates with the antivirus software."
"The stability of Sophos XG is very good. However, there have been some issues with other weaker models because they are limited in hardware in resources."
"The pricing could be reduced or include the first year warranty."
"It would be good if they had fewer updates."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a firewall solution and once it's deployed, you can rest assured that your system is secure."
"The Web-filter in this solution is not very good."
"They have to just improve its performance when we enable all UTM features. When you enable all the features, the performance of FortiGate, as well as of Sophos and SonicWall, goes down."
"The improvement is related to logs. Instead of the CLI, we should be able to have more insights into the logs of the firewall in the GUI."
"There are some cloud-based features that could be much more flexible than they currently are."
"Fortinet FortiGate is not very easy to use. The navigation could be improved to make it easier to use."
"Real-time threat monitoring is not there."
"The threat time interval lags a little, especially if there's a heavy load on the firewall."
"The reporting for this solution could be improved. It could also be more stable and offer better pricing."
"Fortinet FortiOS can improve the monitoring function, it could be more accurate, easy to use, and understandable."
"The GUI could be improved to make it more usable, easier to administer, and easier to configure."
"Right now, it's very trendy to integrate everything into the cloud. This solution would be more effective if they did more integration in that regard."
"There is room for improvement in the reporting part. The reporting is only for logging data, and it's just a tabulation of the log in the report. I would like to be able to take down more information in the event of an incident."
"The product needs a feature that allows users to create another site on a VPN."
"The price should be cheaper."
"Scalability it is a bit limited. We did a sizing exercise before the purchase. But that was just to fit our current needs. There was no room for having an option to upgrade the device. The only option that we have if we are grow in the near future, is to go for another model with higher specs, which is actually more expensive. In other words it doesn't have that modularity ."
"I would like to have better SSL decryption and HTTP decryption. There should be filtering of SSL and HTTP traffic. Sophos XG consumes a lot of endpoint resources. It consumes a lot of RAM and CPU resources, and they should look into this."
"The uploading and downloading of reports should be included."
"We are having challenges when using Zoom with Sophos XG deployed."
"Better instructions should be provided as part of the technical support so that we can understand the functionalities. This will help us to troubleshoot faster."
"When I call, I have to wait at least one to two hours to reach them."
"Sophos XG could improve by being more stable and for it to be able to be used for large enterprises."
Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews while Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews. Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4, while Sophos XG is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos XG writes "Easy to use and deploy with an improved pricing structure in place". Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiWeb, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection and Darktrace, whereas Sophos XG is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS, SonicWall TZ and Meraki MX. See our Fortinet FortiOS vs. Sophos XG report.
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