We performed a comparison between GajShield Next Generation Firewall and Sophos 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."It's quite comfortable to handle the FortiGate firewall."
"Unified Threat Management (UTM) features."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL VPN, as it allows us to connect and it separates this product from other firewalls."
"It does a lot for you for intrusion protection and as an antivirus. The threat management bundle is worth the money. You don't need another company to monitor your web traffic for you. You can do everything yourself on the firewall. You restrict your own black list for people on the firewall. You don't need to pay some other company for another product to do that for you. The firewall can do that for you. So, it's an easy-to-use product for people to be independent. They don't need to rely on other vendors to do what the firewall can do. They can do everything."
"The security on offer is very good."
"A strong point of FortiGate is the graphical interface is complete and easy to use."
"Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"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."
"It is an easily scalable solution...The initial setup was very easy."
"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."
"Gajshiled's enterprise cloud and DLP-level features give it an advantage over other products."
"GajShield Next Generation Firewall's best feature is the network DLP."
"The solution's outcome is very high, and we often use it in a very high-traffic environment."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the endpoint protection feature."
"The features that I've known to be most valuable are both the web security features as well as the web firewall capabilities. As a partner of Sophos firewall, we have some clients and they are using Sophos firewall UTM and we are using it as well."
"It's easy to use."
"The packet filtering's great. You get out what you put into it. It works great as long as you know your security and configure everything adequately. If you just pop one in and it's not configured, then it's basically wide open. It kind of depends on the admin skill, but it's an excellent product."
"Sophos UTM is very user-friendly and has good integration with other solutions."
"It's a stable solution."
"It has made our organization more secure, because we are using a VPN. We are not accessing services directly. It allows us to segregate some of the traffic for individuals which may be more of a developer role rather than an operational role needing access to developer resources, but not necessarily production operational resources."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the firewall application and application control."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"The pricing could be a bit better, especially when you consider how they have the most basic offering priced."
"They should offer special pricing to premium partners and customers."
"Fortinet needs more memory to save the log files. We need it to save the logs on the hardware and not in the cloud. I know this feature is available in FortiCloud, but if we need this log locally, it is not available."
"I haven't had a single issue since using Fortinet."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"We would like to see better pricing."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"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."
"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."
"Gajshield can improve SD-WAN compatibility at an enterprise cloud level."
"We raised a support ticket, and the project didn't get a proper response. There was a skill issue in TAC support."
"We face issues with some configuration parts that we don't understand in the solution, and sometimes we face issues with the VPN connection."
"The firewall configuration and administration screens could use some improvement."
"GajShield Next Generation Firewall would be improved with the addition of a load-balancing feature."
"Email spam filtering only works if you have an on-prem Exchange server. It doesn't interface with Office 365 like the XG model. That would be one feature that they could improve. They're not going to do it because they're trying to push us all to XG."
"Needs to improve the certificate management (ex. Let's Encrypt support)."
"I think that additional metrics features are needed to be able to monitor other areas or to monitor as much as you can, at a fine-grain resolution."
"In Sophos UTM there is always a problem with the routing tables. If you want to see the routing table, you have to use the UI. You can't do it via a web browser. The routing table is better in Fortinet."
"An area for improvement in Sophos UTM is load balancing because my company cannot use it currently. If Sophos could release a new configuration for the load balancing feature to work for my company, that would be great."
"The memory and processing were problematic. The interface could be better."
"Sophos customer support could use some improvement."
"The solution's technical support for India needs to be improved."
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GajShield Next Generation Firewall is ranked 29th in Firewalls with 7 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. GajShield Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.8, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. 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 UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". GajShield Next Generation Firewall is most compared with Sophos XG, WiJungle and Netgate pfSense, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our GajShield Next Generation Firewall vs. Sophos UTM report.
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