We performed a comparison between GajShield Next Generation 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."I think that the UTM features are the most value, as it truly protects my infrastructure."
"FortiGate is very simple to manage and easy to use."
"The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"The user interface is relatively easy. The devices are easy to deploy and figure out when you have experience with other security appliances."
"The solution is extremely reliable."
"It can expand easily."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"The pipe filter application is an outstanding feature."
"It is a stable solution."
"The solution's outcome is very high, and we often use it in a very high-traffic environment."
"GajShield Next Generation Firewall's best feature is the network DLP."
"It is an easily scalable solution...The initial setup was very easy."
"Gajshiled's enterprise cloud and DLP-level features give it an advantage over other products."
"The most valuable feature of the GajShield Next Generation Firewall is the user-friendly settings, dashboards, and anti-threat protection. Additionally, the solution upgrades frequently which is good because we receive new features."
"GajShield has improved our mobile device-based connectivity."
"There are plenty of features that are valuable in the Sophos Cyberoam UTM. We use all the features, such as email Security, firewall rules, web server security, web devices, web protection."
"We are using it as a security shield. It does not allow access before that in case we have restricted a few things from users, so it helps me in that."
"SD-WAN and IPSec features are valuable to me."
"Bandwidth Management and aggregation. It is valuable for combining two ISPs. Switching to a secondary/redundant ISP is thus seamless, in the event that the primary ISP goes down. The Bandwidth Management is also valuable for limiting heavy downloaders that may impact negatively on the experience of other users."
"It is a VPN that serves all your needs as an application firewall."
"The most valuable feature of this product is the threat protection."
"You can geofence yourself if there is an incoming attack or a continuous ping from a company outside your country."
"Web and content filtering are valuable in preventing people from abusing the network and pushing up the bandwidth price."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"It needs to improve its ISP load balancing."
"I use the FortiGate 60D model and realized the 300Mbps bandwidth limitation. Because it is a product that offers many services, I think it could have greater bandwidth capacity."
"One issue that I have had is that sometimes I need to monitor the traffic, so I need to filter it according to the user and which user is using it the most. I experience a bottleneck most of the time, particularly at the peak time when the number of contracts and users are at maximum."
"The solution can have more features in a single box that can be multi-applied to integrate everything."
"There were quite a few problems with the stability of the system."
"I would like to see more advanced developments of a wireless controller in the future."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more storage in the hardware for log data."
"GajShield Next Generation Firewall could improve the flow of the settings. If somebody's using a Cisco firewall or any other brand and they want to use GajShield Next Generation Firewall the platform's UI is a bit different. If it was more similar to the others it would be better."
"Gajshield can improve SD-WAN compatibility at an enterprise cloud level."
"GajShield Next Generation Firewall would be improved with the addition of a load-balancing feature."
"Sometimes, we have to use SD-WAN support for the solution, which can be improved by adapting some features that will help our approach to network services."
"We face issues with some configuration parts that we don't understand in the solution, and sometimes we face issues with the VPN connection."
"We raised a support ticket, and the project didn't get a proper response. There was a skill issue in TAC support."
"The firewall configuration and administration screens could use some improvement."
"There are some issues with logs and report limitations."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could have a more advanced reporting function."
"I don't know whether this will be included in an upgrade, but I would like to get the user utility, like seeing where the users are using more of the data."
"The product had a hang issue. We needed to reboot, recreate the image, and reconfigure the previous image because the product hanged frequently."
"There needs to be more documentation that users can access to help them understand the solution or troubleshoot as necessary."
"I had an issue when I was trying to stop a user from using too much bandwidth while I was using Azure, I was not able to stop them."
"We have had some issues with technical support, which is an area that needs improvement."
"The price is obviously a more sensitive area to focus on."
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GajShield Next Generation Firewall is ranked 29th in Firewalls with 7 reviews while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews. GajShield Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.8, while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of GajShield Next Generation Firewall writes "User-friendly settings, frequent updates, and responsive support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Cyberoam UTM writes "Stable and has a straightforward setup; reporting is fast and easy". GajShield Next Generation Firewall is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, WiJungle and OPNsense, whereas Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos UTM and Juniper SRX Series Firewall. See our GajShield Next Generation Firewall vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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